Bit of background - bought it off polo_phil off here in november 09, brilliant car couldnt have loved it any more! did a service on it in around january '10 and said to the garage can you do the cambelt? yes yes yes thats fine! june'10 'SNAP' bye bye cambelt, bye bye engine! so found a replacement, put that in myself then about 2 moths later the pistonrings went! :mad: :sad: so i lost heart with it didnt no what to do so i got another valver in black from milton keynes! (i live in cumbria) and to be honest i bought a bag of shit i knew it when i saw it but i thought i cant walk away with nothing! I've come this far! But now with all the problems I've had i thought i would look to the green one once again as when it was on the road it was brilliant i loved it

and thats were we get to now!

that was how it was left from last time the interior was foobard mold and all that a fair bit of rust spots had appeared but were it mattered pretty solid i would say so we got to work straight away!

My mate being a dick lol - but ye got the engine out which we are still in to minds wether to get it sent off and rebuilt or get hold of another engine but trying to get hold of a 1.6 bottom end

so ye thats were we are at the minute

but things we plan on doing are:-

getting the engine bay clean not sure about smooth

take all panels off and give it a good clean make sure theres no rot

sort the engine situation out

choose wheels

wether or not to get it resprayed (bits of rust and a key mark :mad: )

and many more

ill update soon

Edited 30 May, 201115 yr by jonnyattwood

So far so good. Looking forward to this one

Sounds like you have quite a job on your hands, good luck mate!

quite a bit more done now just havnt had chance to update!

stripped the interior out i thing the standard interior will be going back in for now but yeah got a bit of a twist to it but ill wait to see what happends with that!

when we stripped the engine a mate asked me if i would wants some parts of the engine powdercoating so i thought why not he chose the colour and it was like a burple sort of colour and with green i didnt think it would go but it was free and just to tidy it up a bit so we will see like!

back to the interior i tryed a few different things but this was my favourite and there is a black swade rooflining to pair with them, as i thought if i did the pillars black with the roof and interior being the same it would be really dark so this is just to break it up a bit, its a marmite mod!

ye so next out was the subframe with wishbones, anti-roll bar and steering rack but split it all down the subframe went down to my mates for powdercoat in blue.

as we were down there we took the engine down for a re-build and within hours the guy had rang me saying i needed to drop back in to my amazment we found this!

considering that there was smoke coming out the breather filter with no knocking noise in the engine itself!

so thats were we are so far i think got an engine i think we are picking it up next week along with the subframe from my mates and new wishbones and bushes :-)

all comments welcome as ever it not negative it constructive critisism! lol

got the subframe and ARB back looking preety cool even though you wont see it put back together with new wishbones

then got it in with steering rack mounted on

also got the bonnet stays done thought this blue wouldnt look right on green but i think its not to bad now like

then the task of finding all the interior and nuts and bolts to put it back together began!

so sticking with the pillars that i showed earlier this is what the end product was like

back seats in

strut brace in!

and finally front seats in!

now were just waiting on the engine and getting some other odd bits here and there sorted with brakes next!

thinking EBC turbo combi's with green stuff pads but any help is appreciated!

jonny

lookin sweet this mate

can't wait to see more :)

Looking sweet mate, the monster stickers look top!

Progress? Got the engine in yet?

Bloody hell! I remember working on this beast in the sheep barn! Haha that was a whim ago thought ud boned it off!

Did you find any money when you stripped it?.. If you did please post it to me

Good to see it's being loved. Update?