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[mitchrs4]

hello every1.for starters you all no this car very well so i hope i can carry on moving it forward slowly.If you dont no the car is now mine cheers to jon just a quick list of things to do really and will update slowly as i get things moving so bare with me:-

brakes,repaint(im thinking full outside just so its all done and finished with),fuel gauge,flock or powder coat the show cage black,flock the dash and thats all thats planned for the momment.

id like to think the brakes and repaint can b covered with the money ive got saved to one side and the other bits are minor jobs so shouldnt b a issue.Either way i best get saving and maybe do the one thing i hate (overtime at work) Im looking forward to taking this on and hopefuly keep u all happy.if i wonder off please tell me im a idiot and not to do it lol

[murfs frst]

Good luck with it mate is a stunning car.

[- Danny Boy -]

Good to see this is staying on the forum. Plans sound good, be nice to see this progress

[MK2 Jamie]

Getting the cage flocked sounds like a good idea! never seen it done before.

[jonyb4]

nice to see its still on here, great buy, the guy who produced it is a mechanical artist

not only he makes our fiestas better he also protect this county in the army

[mitchrs4]

yh danny nice to no its stays when it begain i spose mk2jamie yh well ive gotta try and carry on the unique-ness of the car and try to keep pushing it forward if im able to

[FRSJON]

plans sound great the brakes... im 99.9% sure its the setting up of the master cylinders or the master cylinders themselves..its a 100% nothing to do with calipers or fluid..finding somewhere or a guide for setting the cylinders up properly would be a good starting point and if possible find someone with the same sort of set up and compare the two

[rst-steve]

Nice to see a thread in here Mitch, if you need any more pics you know where i am chap

......... this is a VERY nice car i must say. Oh and it's pretty quick too!!

[jimmyesh]

nice to see its still on here, great buy, the guy who produced it is a mechanical artist

not only he makes our fiestas better he also protect this county in the army

Wow, thanks - high praise indeed mate! Great to see she's still going and that another new, enthusiastic owner is taking the reins where Jon left off

The brakes were the part of the car that I was most disappointed with when I built it - I had no room for the original servo setup due to the location of the ST170 T/Body so had to resort to a bias pedal box. Unfortunatley I never got very good brakes from it and even with the addition of remote servo assistance, I still wasn't too happy with them.

The best way would be take all that out and perhaps start again with trying to start over again with a normal servo setup

Anyway, best of luck and hope you enjoy her!

[jayrs]

plans for it sound good mate.
i second whats been said, ive never seen a flocked cage before, so i say go for it

[mitchrs4]

ok then thats the plan of action then flocked dash and cage to keep the twist to the car Also jimmy thats what im in the process of doing because like u say for what it has on it i was very disapointed.ive got the power to play just no brakes to help me play against some more modern cars.but like i said its on the list of to do's and im starting it saturday.While im on that gotta say thanks to my mate for opening his garage for me on sat so we can sort a few problems out taking time out of his day to help manj

so quick update i spose.Sat is seeing new clutch selector cables fitted as one keeps popping off with hard gear changes leaving me stranded also sort the rear lights out because at the moment the fog and reverse lights are on a total mix up and finally a full bleed of brakes to make sure theres no chance of it just being air in the system.yes i no probly to easy to be true but have to eliminate it before i start looking to much into it.

Thanks for all the comments and any opinions on upgrades ect will be good.AND NO IM NOT GOING TO TURBO IT OR SUPERCHARGE IT.ive got a pot of cash but the pot is that big im afraid to say

Final thing, had a good play with my mates astra vxr nur... addition and if i was able to get the gear changes how they should b and not nursing it into gear (to make sure the cable doesnt pop of box) i would b very close.sounds silly being a 08 car but the turbo lag on it is the window i had to put up a good fight.so watch out darren once the cars running sweet

[jonyb4]

i didnt mean it in a bad way jimmy

[rst-steve]

ok then thats the plan of action then flocked dash and cage to keep the twist to the car Also jimmy thats what im in the process of doing because like u say for what it has on it i was very disapointed.ive got the power to play just no brakes to help me play against some more modern cars.but like i said its on the list of to do's and im starting it saturday.While im on that gotta say thanks to my mate for opening his garage for me on sat so we can sort a few problems out taking time out of his day to help manj

so quick update i spose.Sat is seeing new clutch selector cables fitted as one keeps popping off with hard gear changes leaving me stranded also sort the rear lights out because at the moment the fog and reverse lights are on a total mix up and finally a full bleed of brakes to make sure theres no chance of it just being air in the system.yes i no probly to easy to be true but have to eliminate it before i start looking to much into it.

Thanks for all the comments and any opinions on upgrades ect will be good.AND NO IM NOT GOING TO TURBO IT OR SUPERCHARGE IT.ive got a pot of cash but the pot is that big im afraid to say

Final thing, had a good play with my mates astra vxr nur... addition and if i was able to get the gear changes how they should b and not nursing it into gear (to make sure the cable doesnt pop of box) i would b very close.sounds silly being a 08 car but the turbo lag on it is the window i had to put up a good fight.so watch out darren once the cars running sweet

Sounds good Mitch, nice to hear your cracking on already.... fingers crossed for an easy fix on Saturday, even if the chance seems slim Loving the idea about the roll cage, flocking it would look pretty awesome, what colour tho?? Dark i'd say ........... on a side note i found that cage quite handy to grip/hold onto when i was sitting in the back last night trying to keep up wih the astra ........... the Nurburgring has about 240bhp i think and imo, it was closer than some may think

Can't wait to get MANJ and my turbo side by side

i didnt mean it in a bad way jimmy

I don't think he did take it in a bad way chap

[jayrs]

you going to swap the wires round for the fog light and reverse light or just fit a red bulb?
im not sure how it will go if the fog light is on the left for MOT though, worth bearing that in mind mate.
its the nature of the beast to have euro rear hellas

[MK2 Jamie]

Will be a close race, the RST suffers from lag because of the T3 but if you rev it high then change gear you should stay on boost in every gear

[leighk2010]

love this car and so nice to see its still been kept on the forum

[mitchrs4]

yh change the wires over jay but if not ill just change the lamps with the frst for the mot yh steve defo dark will blend in with interia alot better then.thts the plan anyway llama.yh steve crnt wait for a good photo day out on the road with both of them

[jayrs]

swapping the rear lenses sounds a better idea, or as i say, bung a red bulb in.
reverse light doesnt come into MOT

[FRSJON]

plans sound good and for around the 180 brake mark the car is surprisingly fast as for the rear lights i didnt have them on the car for that long so didnt get round to swapping wires around as for the gear cable they cursed me at ford fair on the 0-60 strip...ok if your not launching it hard but a pain if you are new ones are the way forward as luke suffered the same thing with his 170 box not long ago . if you race the vxr we need a video!!(private test track of course )

[mitchrs4]

ill just swap them over jay its only a 2min job.im sure that can be aranged jon and drren would prob enjoy it also(its the lad with the mohawk who was with us on the day of pick up whos got the astra vxr).yh my local garage was gonna put a split pin thro the cable so it couldnt come off without snapping the pin but one of the plastic lugs had snapped off the cable so got them ordered today and should b picking them up tomoz (90quid lighter on the bank balance tho ) Jon u can still tell me ur idea tho may help snapping the new set [ERRR] i no im gonna b picking on some of the local talent(cars) when i no its sorted.what was u getting 0-60 then and the speedo is tripping me the feck out.when i saw what i did. (i no it wasnt my actual speed but still suprised it even got where it was )

pm sent about tht other thing jon

[FRSJON]

never got to 60 mate the cable came off it did it twice in a row so i gave up... will sort my idea out for holding it on and get it in the post come on then what did you get it to??? remember jimmy had it showing 140

[mitchrs4]

well the needle was at the end of the speedo but was still going.but acording to the gps it was way short of tht so dont think either of them where correct so havent got a clue does this meen ull b wanting a photo of it showing more llama what u have it showing??U got my address to post it have u lol

[FRSJON]

well the needle was at the end of the speedo but was still going.but acording to the gps it was way short of tht so dont think either of them where correct so havent got a clue does this meen ull b wanting a photo of it showing more llama what u have it showing??U got my address to post it have u lol

dont think i ever got it much over 100 no chance of that over here and i always feared id break it pm me your address ive just checked and 'off the clocks' on a st170 is 160mph i think your going to break it

[mitchrs4]

and steve can confirm tht aswel [ERRR] i was obviously concentrating on the road only had a 2 second glance when he was sat there stunned spill the beans then and tell me in the pm what this lil trick up ur sleeve is. This anything lukes using by any chance?

[FRSJON]

nothing special...luke sorted it with new cables..basically its a cage that goes around the top of the cable and the bottom of the selector

[mitchrs4]

cool sounds good to me if it can help then im all game for it.carnt afford to keep replacing them at 90quid a pop.what u driving now then?

[FRSJON]

cool sounds good to me if it can help then im all game for it.carnt afford to keep replacing them at 90quid a pop.what u driving now then?

nothing bar my van its the slow lane for me now till the white ones done dont think you will have to replace them again... there the only ones been fitted

[mitchrs4]

well i hope not they are obviously designed for the job so should stand upto it. maybe its my agressive driving style lol shocking really is but it will so b worth it crnt wait to c it who u building it with?? carbon.....???

[FRSJON]

well i hope not they are obviously designed for the job so should stand upto it. maybe its my agressive driving style lol shocking really is but it will so b worth it crnt wait to c it who u building it with?? carbon.....???

well as for the building it its pretty much me me and a mate are going halves on the money for it but he's not really mechanically minded all his other rs's have been more....he drives it,breaks it,i fix it..etc,etc as for carbon...as much as possible

[mitchrs4]

no i thought u was possibly building it with carbonboy is it on here?? who had the mk1 rs focus.dnt no why.well to be honest tht sounds like me haha.not breaking it and i do put my hand to the odd pieces but i let darren or my other mate martin do most the stuff i have done saves me the hassel.u no what its like a 5 min job always turns into a 1 hour job or is tht just me haha

[FRSJON]

no i thought u was possibly building it with carbonboy is it on here?? who had the mk1 rs focus.dnt no why.well to be honest tht sounds like me haha.not breaking it and i do put my hand to the odd pieces but i let darren or my other mate martin do most the stuff i have done saves me the hassel.u no what its like a 5 min job always turns into a 1 hour job or is tht just me haha

no the shell and most of the parts came from carbonboy i know what you mean about five minute jobs

[mitchrs4]

yh exactly hense why i let other people have the joys of them and either lend a hand or hand the paper over lol

just got price for dash and cage aswel to be flocked didnt think it was to bad:-

"To flock the dash alone it would be £60, i can do the dash and 7 pieces of trim for £100 ie glove box, centre console, heater surrounds, tunnel between the seats ect.

The show cage would be in the region of £40/50"

[jonyb4]

swapping the rear lenses sounds a better idea, or as i say, bung a red bulb in.
reverse light doesnt come into MOT

fog light can be anywhere on the rear mate, ka's have two one in each lamp

[jayrs]

90 notes for a plastic clip

[mitchrs4]

na was for the whole cables its all as one i believe so had to buy cables for it and sods law they come as a pair one for the gears and the 2nd is for nuetral i think so it better not be happening again any time soon lol shocking hay.it was never going to be cheap and thts for parts the fuels bad enough aswel lol