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by **ollieRS** on Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:45 am

Hi so as ya all know i posted up a few pics of my new FRST, an said in the post i was goin to start up a thread in here

so here it goes but befor i get started i will apoligise for my rubbish spelling as me an that crap dont match lol and also i do get carried away with
talking abit to much as jay knows.

Right so here goes to cut a long story short back when i was 17 i brought my first car which was a little blue fiesta 3 door 1.1 popular plus,
and within a month i ripped out the ecotech 1.1

an replaced it whith a 2i lump. i had a complete donner car an just transfed it all within a weekend.
A year later the head gaskit went an at the time i had brought a FRST head with cam an also head work done on it from my mate at melnie engineering so slapped it
on an it went sweet BUT 8 months later gaskit went again

with that gone i decided to go all out an do a full turbo conversion an i did so took me about 2 years due to ime not a get loan boy i work for the money i spend.
I got it all up an running but due to a drastic career change i had to strip her

A few years later i was told a mate of mine had a black FRST which he was umming and areinggg about selling it so gave him a bell went over had a cuppa saw the car
and melted haha. When i was buildiing my first one i always had the final idea and picture of what it was going to look like plus i also brought a zvh engin already built
of a mate which was going to go in it.
plus i was going to make it look as stealth as possable black as black can be but also a monstor.

When i saw this car it was like fate as everything about it was all my ideas right there an then.

when i picked her up it was pissing it down an has been ever since but have managed to get a good look over the whole car an what ive found is that all the time an effort had been spent on the
engin an engin only and nothing else has been touched.
altho it has avo coilys cossie fronts its all in old not so good condition

.

first things first there was a s**t ton of play in the steering wheel and handeled like a box so checked for play in the wheels then checked the rack and bingo! so at 10 30pm last night i started ripping it
of "10 30 pm you say" because i spent the first part of the evening reconing my mates rear calipers as the were shagged big time.

befor i started taking the track rod ends of look what i found......

and looking over the rest of the car thats just the start of it

but gonna leave all of that untill the winter, for now ime just gonna get it up to scratch for the summer fun.

new rack, drop links, track rod ends, UJ

all bolted up

so tomorow is another day its a good start to a big project i will stick up my plans for the engin next week.

thanks oli

by **fiend** on Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:25 pm

Did you replace it with FRST rack or a Standard rack?

by **ollieRS** on Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:40 pm

I got a frst rack as it's a quick one BUT me being a Billy forgot to pick up the track rod ends up from burton

So got some from else were an yes they are to short of thread an not turbo ones.
AN IT'S A fudgekin SUNDAYYYYY!!!

by **FRSJON** on Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:58 pm

will be a great car in the end.. there was rust there when it was sold but not that bad

sills wernt too bad either

by **ollieRS** on Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:00 am

It's very rusty now

will need quite alot of work to be done.
So I had quite a big prob to day, I took it to get tracked up at s**t as it was the only place to get it done on a Sunday
An half way thro he said I can't track this! Anyways he couldn't get the track rod end on the steering rack rod as there was not enough thread inside the track rod end so now ime stumped as the track rod ends are the same on all models mk3.
The rack was from burton an it's a frst one an checked when I centralised it.
Doin my head in now!!!!!!!!

by **jayrs** on Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:24 am

oi ollie, the donkie wants his hind legs back as you talked them off it :lol:

how did you get on with the rack/tracking problem after we spoke on the phone at the weekend mate?

by **ollieRS** on Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:43 pm

hahaha wel sir i did basicly s**t had no muscles but i do need to take of like 3 threads of the the rod

then it can be dead square

jay ile be in isle of white from wednesday we need to get me very drunk lol

oli

by **jayrs** on Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:08 pm

unfortunatly no money for going out on the lash mate, got cam to buy, rs to tax, and theres A 99% chance i will be moving at the end of july and now need to buy carpets, cooker and what not, so no spare cash for anything else

so unless you can get $hit faced on a sniff of a half empty can of fosters, its your round :lol: