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Harry

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:46 am

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Location: Stafford

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 Smile

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 Sad

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 Very Happy

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 Smile

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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:50 am

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Location: Salisbury / New Forest

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JamieM

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:28 am

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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!


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Harry

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:41 am

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Location: Stafford

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

MattyP

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:53 am

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Location: Plymouth

should be an awesome project mate, got a set of rear lights if interested

Harry

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:16 am

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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.

MattyP

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:22 am

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Location: Plymouth

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

Harry

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:40 am

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Location: Stafford

Ah ok they do look quite interesting. Will do thanks

Harry

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:14 pm

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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.

Dabamash

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:10 pm

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Location: The car in front

No f*****g way! My Saxo used to be called Paxo as well

Harry

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:39 am

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Location: Stafford

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.

Harry

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:37 pm

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Location: Stafford

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.

Harry

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:30 pm

Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Trade Rating: +105
Location: Stafford

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.

Addaz

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:35 pm

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Location: Suffolk

Looking nom indeed sir


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Harry

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:37 pm

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Why thank you How is yours coming along? I see a race in the future

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