#1: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:46 am ---- Wasn't going to put one of these threads up at first but thought it would be a good idea to have a record of everythings that done.
Couple of weeks ago I got my hands on my brothers saxo. As it was going to fail the MOT pretty badly it wasn't worth keeping on the road. He was going to break it but on the same morning as he was going to start I said it would be nice to have as a track car project and by that afternoon it was mine
It's a bit of a shed to say the least, the previous owner (my brother only had for a month) didn't care much about it.
Several bits were missing / broken so it really needed to tlc to make it good again. I've spent nearly all the time since then painting, which is really boring as I can't wait to get started on the mechanical side of things.
It's a 1998 VTS which is getting taken off the road. At some point in the past it has been resprayed with rattle cans (lol..) but it hasn't actually come out that bad and looks a nice matt black from a distance.
It actually came with broken angels and a crap grill with no air feed but no brother fixed that a week before I fixed it with some morettes.
It's going to be quite a budget build so nothing major will be bought. It already has a full roll cage, spax suspension, bucket seats, harnesses, snap off wheel etc..
Started off by just stripping the interior a bit ready to paint the cage and sub frames.
Cleaned the boot pins as they must have masked them badly with the respray. Just a before and after.
Found a nice little bit of rust under the sound deadening at the back. Same on both sides
Mate just sorting out the rust and the cage has had an undercoat on it.
Cage has been done in flourescent green just needs finishing off but it's started raining heavily.
Think I got lucky as well yesterday as a man from british gas came to fix the boiler and he had a vts he was about to scrap. So I went to his house and got this lot for £20
Needed the fuel pump as the floater arm on the last one was wrecked.
So far off the top of my head the future plans are:
Paint the cage and sub frames in flourescent green
Paint the interior floor in black
Raise the rear about 10 - 20mm
Get 205 speedlines and reburb them in flourescent green
Give it a good service
Rivet the sunroof up in aluminium
Fit perspex windows
Relocate battery to the boot
Uprate front brakes unsure of what yet
And more, just needs a decent tidy up most of all.
Hopefully it should be done by the end of the year looking forward to the fun to be had in it
#2: Re: Project Paxo Author: CD-B3, Location: Salisbury / New ForestPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:50 am ---- Number plate - "Hating You"
#3: Re: Project Paxo Author: JamieM, Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:28 am ---- Should be nippy, miss my VTS sometimes. Defineitely the drive!
God knows where and what life it leads now, but under my ownership I made it in to a beautiful beast!
#4: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:41 am ---- I thought it was a good plate but the dvla only value it at around £220, the same amount that h7 kvo or something goes for
Yeah I saw yours jamie it looked absolutely mint they are pretty quick for 1.6's
#5: Re: Project Paxo Author: MattyP, Location: PlymouthPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:53 am ---- should be an awesome project mate, got a set of rear lights if interested
#6: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:16 am ---- What are they? I know absolutely nothing about saxos depends how much you are looking for but I'm only really buying essential stuff atm and the current lights seem to be working fine.
#7: Re: Project Paxo Author: MattyP, Location: PlymouthPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:22 am ---- There the standard rear lights but the previous owner sprayed them with some purplish type lacquer I think to give that pearelscent look, there kept in my garage so if you are in need of another set for any reason just let me know mate
#8: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:40 am ---- Ah ok they do look quite interesting. Will do thanks
#9: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:14 pm ---- Been working non stop on it for the last week but it's not obvious what's been done looking back.
Cage + sub frames are now green (yay)
Carbon wrapped the spoiler
Took the morettes out and fixed them up a little
Also done all the prep work for relocating the battery including making the mounts for the tray so when the painting is finished that should be sorted. Took lots (and I mean lots) of sound deadening out surprisingly weighs a lot put together.
#10: Re: Project Paxo Author: Dabamash, Location: The car in frontPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:10 pm ---- No f*****g way! My Saxo used to be called Paxo as well
#11: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:39 am ---- It's the best name for them
Just waiting on some steel sheet so the rust can be sorted and the sunroof removed, hopefully should be uprating the fan as well this week.
#12: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:37 pm ---- Most of the rust has been sorted and the bonnet pins which decided to fall off have been welded back in place.
The fan was only single, so I bought another one and painted them. Going to wire them up to a switch instead of the normal loom, I don't think it even use to turn on..
Fitted the coilpack cover and painted the rocker cover with hammerite. Looks so bad but oh well better than peeling faded blue paint.
Decided the whole engine needed doing as well.
Steel sheet arrived, yAy
Sunroof out.
Got it done by this evening, sorry for the paint, not my best attempt.
Also bought a set of 205 gti wheel off ebay only to find out this..
Don't know where I stand as I picked them up but didn't notice it at the time. I have contacted the seller but unsure to what she will say.
#13: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:30 pm ---- Contacted the seller and got a replacement. Although now I have 3 smrs and one speedline but it should still be ok.
Going off to the powdercoaters on wednesday
Also fitted the towstrap I got a few days ago, sorted the fan wiring out and stripped off the paint from the bonnet pins that had been painted over.
#14: Re: Project Paxo Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:35 pm ---- Looking nom indeed sir
#21: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:02 am ---- You taken them all out? I know barely anything is actually used within the looms it's just effort finding it all out.
You not having any custom switches or anything them? not sure where else you could mount them.
#22: Re: Project Paxo Author: SmithyXSI, Location: Newcastle-upon-TynePosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:48 am ---- The speedlines are lighter than the SMRs, fractionally. So depending on what you swapped you might have saved a few grams!
I thought you had to have a dash for track days?
Looks good, will be following with interest. If you've got any Q's about anything I practically rebuilt a 106GTI (effectively the same car) about a year and a half ago...
Smithy
#23: Re: Project Paxo Author: Seb, Location: Under your bedPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:55 am ---- For standard track days your car is sometimes required to be road legal, all depends who is running it.
The dash can just be put back on right? It can't weigh more than 1kg? Eat less pies.
The speedlines are lighter than the SMRs, fractionally. So depending on what you swapped you might have saved a few grams!
I thought you had to have a dash for track days?
Looks good, will be following with interest. If you've got any Q's about anything I practically rebuilt a 106GTI (effectively the same car) about a year and a half ago...
Smithy
Yeah I weighed them the speedlines are around 2.5kg lighter which is good but now on the rear they are going to be different
I don't know I didn't think so? Don't see why it would bother them.
Cheers I will do what was yours like? do you still have it?
@Seb it requires an MOT but because obviously non road legal cars won't have an MOT they expect it to be in a good enough shape to pass one (not silly things just brakes suspension etc). They do test the cars before to make sure they aren't dangerous but it should be fine. It still differs between tracks though.
#25: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:14 pm ---- The dash didn't last long.. shame as it was flocked but it was tatty and already cut in places so just took it out. A lot better without it imo.
The heater matrix and piping has all been removed as well as the coolant hoses sorted just haven't got a pic. Will update when it's all tidied up a little more.
Yeah I weighed them the speedlines are around 2.5kg lighter which is good but now on the rear they are going to be different
I don't know I didn't think so? Don't see why it would bother them.
Cheers I will do what was yours like? do you still have it?
Loads of photos in here. Didn't go the track slag route, made mine back to OEM+ really. Sold it last year, not sure what happened to it.
Rust around the rear wheels is common due to a horrible piece of plate weld design which allows water to sit inbetween panels.
I just know there was a bit of debate about it back on 106OC back in the day about whether a dash was required or not.
Speedlines have brand appeal also, +5bhp (probably)
Looked through them all looks really nice shame you sold it and yeah the rust is crap, nearly every piece of metal has at least surface rust on it as well.
Hope dash isn't needed, I wouldn't have thought so and the definition is debateable, I'm making a custom dash for it which will hold all the switches
#28: Re: Project Paxo Author: Ape, Location: Clipping the Apex!Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:39 am ----
Addaz wrote:
Harry wrote:
Why thank you
How is yours coming along?
I see a race in the future
Only started the diet, still need to remove the inner pannels, fog lights, wiring loom sections
Seats and harness'
Then snetterton?
Can I play? I'm sure Mac would want to come along too
Looked through them all looks really nice shame you sold it and yeah the rust is crap, nearly every piece of metal has at least surface rust on it as well.
Hope dash isn't needed, I wouldn't have thought so and the definition is debateable, I'm making a custom dash for it which will hold all the switches
Haha cheers mate, I got that f*****g huge dent in the rear quarter sorted as well!
Best on looking at rules of the track I reckon. Will be following the progress though!
Only started the diet, still need to remove the inner pannels, fog lights, wiring loom sections
Seats and harness'
Then snetterton?
Can I play? I'm sure Mac would want to come along too
The more the merrier
Quote::
Haha cheers mate, I got that f*****g huge dent in the rear quarter sorted as well!
Best on looking at rules of the track I reckon. Will be following the progress though!
That's good it was letting it down a bit I've been searching for this rule book but I can't find anything it's just word of mouth it's difficult to get a definite answer.
#31: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:07 am ---- Got back from holiday and picked the wheels up, shame they couldn't be more fluorescent but for £20 a corner you can't really complain.
Also got a tasty OMP upper strut brace off sax p, it's fitted now but will take pictures when the engine bay is finished.
At the moment it's the wiring that's taking ages when the inside is sorted and painted I can start putting the cables in for the battery relocation. Last edited by Harry on Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:50 am; edited 1 time in total
#32: Re: Project Paxo Author: Callum206, Location: West SussexPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:29 am ---- Im not sure but i think those alloys are green ? Look good !
#33: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:49 am ---- Oops I missed a 'more' there they don't look too bad in the the photo but in person they aren't neon like which is what I wanted. Cheers man
#34: Re: Project Paxo Author: Callum206, Location: West SussexPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:51 am ----
Harry wrote:
Oops I missed a 'more' there they don't look too bad in the the photo but in person they aren't neon like which is what I wanted. Cheers man
Its all about the coloured alloys tho Red for me does the job but ive got bored already
Oops I missed a 'more' there they don't look too bad in the the photo but in person they aren't neon like which is what I wanted. Cheers man
Its all about the coloured alloys tho Red for me does the job but ive got bored already
Why ? yours are such a nice colour, I'm going to do the dished lip on my pug flourescent green soon. Having said that I have said that for years..
Bright colours ftw
Yeh i do like them but i just get bored easy haha I might just buy some scrappy set and do them a diff colour.
Nah don't I like them for £20 a wheel at city powdercoaters you could have a different colour evey week
#38: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:23 pm ---- Few pictures over the last couple of weeks.
Fitted the strut brace and wired the fans in although the temperature sensor is broke so have a new one ready to fit.
Had to cut the bonnet a little for it not to rub.
Also sorted the quick shift out as it was welded on so hopefully now it's nice and tight and adjustable should it be adjusted wromng. Really can't test these things at the moment.
Main thing I've done is make a custom centre console, only has a few buttons at the moment but haven't thought of anything else.
Had a fair bit of carbon wrap left over so did the dials that for some reason were painted in white.
#39: Re: Project Paxo Author: sicskate, Location: Margate, KentPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:24 am ---- Really liking this. Very good base for a budget track project!
#40: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:36 am ---- Cheers yeah it is a bit of a budget I'm quite poor
#41: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:14 am ---- seen this on sax-p.......
#42: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:53 pm ---- Seen what mate? don't have a progress thread but my brother did when he owned it
#43: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:02 pm ---- same car... user name jam3s
#44: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:08 pm ---- Yeah it is I use the account to buy an sell stuff still no point in starting a new one and paying
#45: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:18 pm ---- don,t need to pay on sax-p buddy unless you want premuim
#46: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:45 am ---- Dunno it was already premium so just thought I may as well use it, if I wanted an account for myself I would make one but the community is a bit s**t to say the least
#47: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:51 am ---- yer it can be, same as most though, some good parts come up for sale though (track & race bits)
#48: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:55 am ---- Yeah that's the only good thing I can think about there's some nice carbon parts and stuff floating around, annoys me how most of the for sale threads are just wall of texts that you can't read, have no pictures and some dont even have prices..
#49: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:58 pm ---- Been a while but bought some stuff and been working on it a fair bit. Firstly like the sunroof I removed the ariel and blanked it up.
Took a trip down to Sutton Coldfield to meet a guy from Sax P who I ended up buying a few things off.
Got a full manifold back supersprint race exhaust with a 2" tip really love it. Was so lucky seeing as I had been looking for a system for a month or so and only found one or two suitable enough with a small enough tip and then he had one in his garage I didn't even know about.
Ended up having to take the manifold off as the bolts collecting the centre section to it were well and truely ruined.
Made a quick release bumper with some bonnet pins. Quite good seeing as half the bolts sheered when removing the bumper anyway.
Got on with painting the whole interior black, this has taken weeks but it's finally done will get some pictures later when all the paper and tape has been removed.
Also got some home made door inserts off the guy. Just some card covered in fabric but it's all I need at least it covers up the window motors.
That's it for now but at least stuff can start going back in. Except getting some sensors to work and putting everything back it's just suspension and brakes left I think.
#50: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:28 am ---- Big day yesterday, seeing light and the end of the tunnel now
R888s came, fitted the rear tow strap and got everything back in. Will let pictures do the talking although there's still a hell of a lot to do.
Guages need fitting next, main problem I'm having is the battery absolutely refuses to be relocated. If I run extra cable to the boot (tried really thick cable) then it sometimes wants to start and sometimes doesn't the only stable way to do it is to have it in the engine bay which it won't fit in anymore.
Also needs raising at the back 20-30mm
#51: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:35 am ---- and went to get the tyres fitted yesterday, tried to find the one speedline to make sure the treads were the right direction and all four are smrs..
Clearly not the ones I bought must have given me different ones when getting them powdercoated, oh well
#52: Re: Project Paxo Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:05 am ----
Harry wrote:
main problem I'm having is the battery absolutely refuses to be relocated. If I run extra cable to the boot (tried really thick cable) then it sometimes wants to start and sometimes doesn't the only stable way to do it is to have it in the engine bay which it won't fit in anymore.
How big / powerful is the battery?
Earth lead straight on to chassis as near as possible next to battery.
Nice thick suitable cable down to the starter & under bonnet fuse box, I would be tempted to fit a suitable fuse as near as possible to the battery in case this main cable shorts out.
If BMC could manage it with the Mini all those years ago & BMW, Volvo & Mercedes still fit the battery in the boot now, it cant be that hard to get it working on Saxo
#53: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:21 am ---- we had ours boot located without any problems on the old saxo vts...
main problem I'm having is the battery absolutely refuses to be relocated. If I run extra cable to the boot (tried really thick cable) then it sometimes wants to start and sometimes doesn't the only stable way to do it is to have it in the engine bay which it won't fit in anymore.
How big / powerful is the battery?
Earth lead straight on to chassis as near as possible next to battery.
Nice thick suitable cable down to the starter & under bonnet fuse box, I would be tempted to fit a suitable fuse as near as possible to the battery in case this main cable shorts out.
If BMC could manage it with the Mini all those years ago & BMW, Volvo & Mercedes still fit the battery in the boot now, it cant be that hard to get it working on Saxo
Earth lead is only around 20cm long and the power cable is 2awg. Surely buying any thicker would just be a waste?
I also have a 150 amp ANL fuse located right next to the battery
The thing that makes it most annoying is that it's never 100% doesn't work or 100% works. One day it will start fine and the next it won't and I need to run the battery from the engine bay again. Sometimes it doesn't work so I take the fuse out of the circuit and it works and visa verca.. is so random I can't make sense of it. The only thing that I understand though even if it's very vague is that running it from the engine bay = no problems and using extended cable = lots of problems.
I'm sure it's possible though, my friend has done it to his with much much thinner cable and he has absolutely 0 problems.
Do you remember what cable you were using shell? I'm more than happy to spend some cash on some thicker better quality cable but it's going to cost the best part of 50 quid really and if that doesn't even solve the problem it would be a complete waste. I don't have any anyone I could borrow some off to test either.
#55: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:15 am ---- About 140amps we used
#56: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:29 am ---- Yeah I did a lot of research into what cable / fuses to use so it's annoying when it doesn't work. I can remove the fuse and the problem still occurs, or a different problem but it rarely starts and runs when with a relocated battery.
#57: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:45 am ---- anything else happening on this harry...
#58: Re: Project Paxo Author: shell-vt, Location: durhamPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:45 am ---- anything else happening on this harry...
#59: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:33 am ---- Not so much recently, spent a lot of time and money on it during the summer and aiming to get it ready for jan / feb next year.
Just needs work putting into it now
Better battery cable
Torsion bars adjusted
ARB bolts re tapped
Rust treated and undersealed
Fix rev counter
Secure temperature sensor into the block
Wheel bearing re done
Have a nice Brian James trailer for it as well, going to get a fireproof suit and then we are good to go
Should be booking a track day with my mates corsa red top around the start of next season if anyone wants to join
#60: Re: Project Paxo Author: john206gti, Location: south shieldsPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:33 am ---- looks good so far.
but it looks like your cage mounts have been welded over the rear axle mounts?
if your bearings go in the trailing arms how will you change it?
#61: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:52 am ---- Cheers, don't really understand what you mean.
If the axle needs replacing the nuts can be undone and the axle will come off still? Not sure if the mounts have been welded in but everytime I've sorted an axle out the mounts can be left in anyway.
#62: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:16 pm ---- Understand what you mean by the axle now, I thought the thread was threaded into the chasis maybe the bolt has been welded underneath meaning the axle bolts can still be removed, just hope I never have to find out.
Didn't realise it hasn't been updated in so long, it's now complete and at a stage where it just needs to be tested, hopefully will be done over easter.
Apologise for the lack of photos looks like it misses some stuff out, a lot of the project was just re threading parts, sorting rust patches etc so not really worth taking photos of.
Got a new rev counter for the shift light (don't care about revs really) has taken a long time to get working at the revs are completely incorrect but the shift light works at the correct time so that's all that matters.
The light is right under the steering wheel, you can't see it in the photo
Got 180 brakes fitted, got a 23mm master cylinder on the way but they are bled with the standard 19mm one at the moment and the brake linkage adjusted, seems to be alright until tested properly.
Also painted rears, disks and pads are next on the list
Finally adjusted the rear, sits around 40mm higher now. Did have some photos of it being done but isn't that interesting.
Mudflaps fitted
Antil roll bar bolts were both sheered (before I owned it) tried drilling it out but was absolutely impossible so ended up making some new thread.
Adapter re threaded for the water temp sensor
Battery relocation finished with a 150amp ANL fuse, also fitted a new battery saves having to jump start it all the time
So that's it, a few pictures of it now.
It doesn't even look that much but it has taken f*****g ages
#63: Re: Project Paxo Author: JamieM, Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:45 pm ---- I bet it moves!
Mine wasn't even stripped and it was f*****g lively lol!
I like this
#64: Re: Project Paxo Author: DJ-, Location: UKPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:53 pm ---- Nice one Harry! Glad to see you made good progress with it!
#65: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:48 am ---- Cheers guys Yeah it's nice to think it's finally done, at least to a point - will start working up suspension and brake upgrades when I find out how it handles.
Still haven't driven it properly yet, nearly been a year but when I was in it when my brother had it I remember it pulled, waayy better than my xsi.
#66: Re: Project Paxo Author: JamieM, Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:39 pm ---- Your XSI would feel slow if it was cam'd against a stock VTS let alone a stripped and breathered one lol!
You will love the drive when you tap that b***h properly!
#67: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:41 pm ---- Yeah it's not surprising really
I feel like a kid who is learning to drive reving his car on the driveway
I feel like a kid who is learning to drive reving his car on the driveway
Lol!
You will probably find yourself selling the XSI soon after driving it, although not practicable it will be very cheap to run and alot quicker and fun to drive!
#69: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:20 pm ---- I am talking to someone about a S1 rallye short ratio box at the moment so if I can get that it should be even better, but even more of a pig to drive.
Not sure if it will ever be on the road to be honest, it would have to get through a dodgey mot and with no heater matrix, power steering, sound deadening and even the washer jet system (yes someone actually went to the hassle of removing it all) it would probably get annoying on a daily commute.
I am surprised at how cheap and economical to run they are vs the power. Some of my friends are into jap cars, especially hondas and they laugh at the bhp figures, but in practice they are bloody quick. Just watching some at santa pod last week, granted they may have been modded and had a good launch but I saw a few keep up with scoobs and focus sts / rs's
They obviously aren't the fastest car on the road but they can be made very quick.
Really wish I'd cam'd and ITB'd mine, defo would have got a feature.
#71: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:09 pm ---- If only I had the cash it's going to get to a point where I am spending too much money considering the shell and the paint is so crap. Serious option for the future is getting a clean 106 gti and swapping the parts over.
If anything they are extremely fun, much more than I thought. Yeah that's the next option, yours looked stupidly clean remember seeing it a long time ago in some pictures.
Got some more 205 wheels the other day as well, going to run slicks on one set and normal / wets on the other
#72: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:27 pm ---- Mallory park has been booked for May 12th, if anyone else is going feel free to say hi
Got some new parts to try and finish it off a bit.
Needed fogs to stop the arch liners ripping out.
23mm master cylinder, will have it fitted soon.
Fire extinguisher.
205 wheel, going to be refurbed in flourescent green and run semi slicks, whilst the other set will be kept for full slicks.
And lastly a 1.3 short ratio box will be fitted after mallory
#73: Re: Project Paxo Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 12:51 pm ---- Managed to delete the photos, ah well
Went to curborough sprint track last wednesday to test the car. It was horrible weather, oily track and it was p**sing it down so didn't get a good conclusion about how the car handled. Since the brakes didn't seem to be very effective I stripped them down checked all the pistons and replaced all the pads.
Went Mallory Park on Saturday was extremely fun
Car performed good with only issue being a wheel bearing getting quite worn - and near the end all of the brakes completely failed so had to retire an hour early
Have a lot of photos so will only post the good ones
And some of random cars there
Yamaha R1 rear engined space framed mini
I don't know what this was, but it was absolutely rapid. Heard the owner say it has a 2l in it, and could see the ITBs sticking out
This beast was definitely the fastest thing there, pictures say it all really
Got a quite a bit of footage but uploaded one of the sessions.
Just be warned I get overtaken - A LOT but it pulled really well just not as much as everyone elses
Hoping to get another track day sorted for late July / August just depends when I can finish it off needs some work doing
-New wheel bearing
-Brakes sorting out (possibly faulty slave or mc)
-Gearbox fitted
-Petrol gauge fixed - not knowing how much fuel is in is worse than I imagined
Possibly some more things, can't really think of anything right now
We are not responsible for comments posted by our users, as they are the property of the poster
Interactive software released under GNU GPL,
Code Credits,
Privacy Policy
Membership:
Latest: 
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 17129
Online Now [644]:
Visitors: 643
Members: 0
Staff Online Now:
Page Views:
General
Red for me does the job but ive got bored already 
