Recent content by David172

Cage is in. Just been slimming down the bottom dash before I refit it. I'll save that for another day. Lots of wire management and switches/buttons to relocate too - fiddly s**t. 👍

Says it all really!

The cambelt job is £600+ so add that onto the asking price. If it's got no history I wouldn't bother though, go and drive another one (good example) and see if it feels better. If it doesn't, get something else :D

I'm not totally sure if I need any other bits to go with the cams, I'll ask the mechanic before hand to be sure! 197 cams with matched inlets, 182 manifold and cat back + decat/sports cat gets around 190bhp from what ive read. After mapping of course. Some get mid 190's 👍

A picture says a thousand words. That's why autotrader has a few of em'.

Dropped the car off to have the cage fitted today, pick it up next weekend. Also got some 197 cams so I'm spending my afternoon cleaning them up, the toilet paper I bought recently is coming in handy :P

Do the easy, free stuff like spare wheel, rear seats, carpet etc, and then spend money on the important stuff like pads, brake fluid and some track days. If you get the bug you will probably want to strip it more, if you don't then you can chuck stuff back in and no harm done.

About 40kg ish. Which probably isn't really worth it for road use.

When you start removing stuff from a non cup you soon start to see where the weight is.

Looking forward to seeing him fit the acrapoovic exhaust to it :rolleyes:

Yes

Ironic

Yeah I knew about having to disconnect it when not in use. I don't have a switch fitted yet so ill just be diconnecting the negative terminal for now. Can't this being an issue other than having no alarm.

Battery fitted, the car started so that's a win. Lets see how it goes from now on with drain etc. Discovered some more french twatness too, lets put two earth points tucked out the way, right next to the headlight electric so it's impossible to get a spanner on. Genious.

Battery tray painted and ready to be fitted. I painted the cup spolier but the end result was patchy and nothing like the original paint so I have revered back to the original spolier. Not too bothered as the brake light works in it and it's a tad lighter lol. Was looking good at primer...