Bigpower

So i took a gamble and brought the car off my cousin as a non runner, no mot or tax, water mixing with oil project

Spec is pretty much unknown but have found a few things:
Alloy header tank
ktec alloy carb top
mocal oil cooler
alloy degassing camber
ktec bored out turbo elbow
bigger alloy intercooler
samco silicone hoses everywhere
engine rebuilt back in 2006 new pistons+liners, bottom end rebuild
scorpion straight through exhaust system
clifford g5 alarm
Ecotek valve (removed as soon as i saw it)

This is how the car turned up on my door step after being towed,
Carb and turbo had both been removed and put in the footwell






then i started work on the engine to get the liner seals changed and inspect the rest for damage









Whilst waiting for parts to turn up from renault i decided to take the front bumper, front archs and side skirts.
Found a few medium size rusted through sections in the drivers outer sill and a small hole in the passenger side outer sill.

So far have cut out the rusted sections and put in new metal and welded it, seam sealed and painted with paint, got to do the rear of the drivers sill as the inner sill needs a bit of welding but need to drop the tank as its too close for my liking

Replaced both front wheel bearings and bottom ball joints as they were knackered

Then my bits from renault turned up

new heatshields as mine are missing
new headgasket kit
new rear window square trims as mine are falling apart
new sideskirt clips as most of mine have broke
Metre of brake servo hose as some knob has fitted a ecotek valve in mine
New coolant
Sump painted black by my brother

Also found out the whole car has dynamat everywhere







Rebuilt the carb
Dinner trays are good for carb rebuilds :mrgreen: found out some muppet had got the accel pump spring wrong way around so it was sitting on the diaphram and would of split it sooner or later


Then i got the engine all back together after cleaning the liner platforms (Drill wire brush attachment and flat screwdriver works wonders) new liner seals fitted, new headgasket

After much internet searching i found out where each samco hose should be
Engine bay now its fully functional but slightly smokey from turbo oil seal


Turned him around so i can start work on the back end so took pics of the front end all rust treated and painted black





Bolted the front bumper and pushed the broken grill back in place to look better for the moment


Now i got to fix up the back end
drop fuel tank
do small bit of welding on sills
fix the fuel pump and filter on properly
fix a fuel pipe leak
make a new reserve tank strap
raise back end as currently sitting far too low

Got to sort out the interior aswell as its a bit of a mess :roll:

Then hopefully get it to work for a mot and i just need to get the turbo rebuilt and the car onto the rolling road for a fueling check and boost increase

did a bit of filler and prep work where i had to weld in a new bit of metal on the top of the sill the other day during the week



all primered ready for a rub down and lick of paint :nodyes:

And had a decent amount of progress today

Sill has been painted


Drivers and passenger rear sections of sill holes has been fixed and strengthened so much its a new jacking point


Then the front archs, sills, floor pan, boot floor pan basically everywhere under the car has been waxoyl'd super thick :mrgreen:




My reserve tank strap had rusted away and snapped and i wasnt going to pay

started working again now the snows over

Before


My little helper making sure i dont grind my fingers again



And After




Doesn't look like much but we've done a fair bit.

Removed the tailgate as its scrap but kept all the wiring safe.
Removed the rear seats, drivers seat, boot carpet and under back seat carpet.
Removed the show roll cage.
Fixed the rust hole on the rear bumper mount and fuel filler neck mounting.
Fixed the captive nut so the bolt that holds the drivers seat frame to the body so it actaully screws into something and the seat dont flap about . :lol:
Hammered off all the renault sound deadening from the boot floor and rear arch sides. :muahaha:

But i got pokey screwdriver happy and found another 2 rust holes

So i've crossed a few things of my to do list but added a few aswell doh!


The worst rusty hole less than 1 inch away from the rear seat belt mounting point
Some of the weld went shit near to the end as i ran out of gas and the gas regulator packed up :x

This is just the inside part of the panel i've fixed, got to do the part in the wheel arch tonight


Oh and you can see where i removed some of the sound deadening on the arch and floor


Rear seat backs repainted black


Interior going back in




Shopping this morning got some new engine bits


Took the rear windows out to change the 3 little rubber bits and well i'll let the pictures do the talking.......



My newly paint floor is going to get ruined even tho it'll be recovered in sound deadening anyways



Looks like the welder is coming out again..... surely there cannot be anymore rust after this?

progress so far this weekend



















Then started to fix all the messed up wiring loom and poor clifford g5 installation that was hanging down everywhere, so out came the dash and started re-tapeing the whole thing back into shape.
Removed all the scotch lock's and crap solder joints and replaced with heatshrink crimp connectors 8)

small update

Bolted a new battery tray in.
Put a spare battery on and checked all the electrics work everything seems good 8)
And it the engine still starts

Little video of it alive again albeit slightly smokey and idle a tad high
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_h_FQaw3I

Going to have to flush the oil as its gone a tad milky from where i couldn't drain the oil cooler so suspect it was full of water :roll:

Fitted new side skirt clips on the car and put the skirts and front arches back on and it looks like a 5 turbo again

MOT some time next month just need to sort the little things out first

ok the brakes wont bleed properly :roll: so i went out and brought a new master cylinder as it only cost

Well my brother has today and tomorrow off work for his birthday
so i was expecting him to play on his pc all day or something but..... instead he has gone and done a shit load of bodywork preping for me :mrgreen:

He shall be rewarded by supplying him curry form the local takeaway

Love it to bits!
That'll be brilliant when it's finished.

And that is all so far

Just ordered 4 toyo t1r's for the wheels

Hopefully get it out at weekends and on track around april time after the full respray has been done