My RA and Type R
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Had it on the ramp and stripped down yesterday , getting the diff cradle , link arms and hubs bead blasted and powder coated , and rebuilding the hubs with new bearings , rebuild and paint the drive shafts , and paint the diff , will give the floor and inner arch's painted before re-fitting everything .
Got my new brakes just about finished , just need to decide on coilovers and get them ordered up
Cheers Ian
Got my new brakes just about finished , just need to decide on coilovers and get them ordered up
Cheers Ian
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HI
Yes got one of those , they painted it but i'm fitting it , just need to decide on the badge to go in it
Cheers Ian
Yes got one of those , they painted it but i'm fitting it , just need to decide on the badge to go in it
Cheers Ian
If it was me, I'd keep it 'Works' i.e. the std 'black stars' version.
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My RA was picked up last week , new owner was over the moon with it , it's a cracking car
Cheers Ian
Cheers Ian
I missed this.
So, you've now sold the white RA...?!
I thought that was also going to be a project car... I thought the original intention was that you were going to restore her to near-'concours' OEM.
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I'd of loved to have also kept the RA , even stored it away in a bubble for a while , but just bought a plot of land to build a house , so have to sell some toys , the RA being one of them .
So just keeping the type R now
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Got most of the parts underneath bead blasted today , the larger parts don't fit in my blasting cabinet so will get someone else to do them
Will get the bolts off to be plated this week , and will powder coat the arms in house
Will get the bolts off to be plated this week , and will powder coat the arms in house
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HI
Went up to see the car the other day , and it's looking amazing in the flesh , much better than I was expecting , there is a mark in the paint on the quarter panel which they have to fix , so will get it back next weekend , I have my RA here I need to change the shocks as the guy who's bought it is picking it up next week , so i'll get the 2 door one back here when that's gone.
Byron who did the car owns the 6R4 , and bought a load of fifteen52 wheels for it , and put some wheels in the arch to take pics , he was telling me to get a set but they don't work for me , not that big on the design , or white wheels .
These are wheels I have bought for it , finishing off the WRC look , speedline replica's made under licence , very nice wheels , and looks perfect to me , the wheel was just put in the arch , I need to make spacers to fill the arch now , the wheels are only available in an ET48 , the wheels on my old WRC car were ET10 I think , so will make up some hubcentric spacers to fill the arch's perfectly.
Need to decide on a coilover kit as it will need dropping 50-60mm , so on the search for something that isn't too hard for road use , it won't be going on the track , so want something firm , but comfy and not rattle my teeth out !
I'm going to order new window surrounds , and the gutter trim , just so it looks perfect outside , I'm undecided what to do with the seats now , I'll fit the originals in and see what it looks like with the red on them , but I may go for later blue STi seats , we'll see .
That's about it for now
Cheers Ian
Went up to see the car the other day , and it's looking amazing in the flesh , much better than I was expecting , there is a mark in the paint on the quarter panel which they have to fix , so will get it back next weekend , I have my RA here I need to change the shocks as the guy who's bought it is picking it up next week , so i'll get the 2 door one back here when that's gone.
Byron who did the car owns the 6R4 , and bought a load of fifteen52 wheels for it , and put some wheels in the arch to take pics , he was telling me to get a set but they don't work for me , not that big on the design , or white wheels .
These are wheels I have bought for it , finishing off the WRC look , speedline replica's made under licence , very nice wheels , and looks perfect to me , the wheel was just put in the arch , I need to make spacers to fill the arch now , the wheels are only available in an ET48 , the wheels on my old WRC car were ET10 I think , so will make up some hubcentric spacers to fill the arch's perfectly.
Need to decide on a coilover kit as it will need dropping 50-60mm , so on the search for something that isn't too hard for road use , it won't be going on the track , so want something firm , but comfy and not rattle my teeth out !
I'm going to order new window surrounds , and the gutter trim , just so it looks perfect outside , I'm undecided what to do with the seats now , I'll fit the originals in and see what it looks like with the red on them , but I may go for later blue STi seats , we'll see .
That's about it for now
Cheers Ian
The car looks fantastic Ian.
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Hi Ian, can I ask where you sourced that RA from? From the pictures it looked amazing. I am looking for one at the moment but a good one is hard to find. I was under the impression it was a keeper aswell and was half tempted to pm you and see if you would sell it, dammit!
What kind of money was in it? I understand if you don't want to share that info. Also if anyone knows another RA in good condition then please pm me.
Lovely work on the Type R
What kind of money was in it? I understand if you don't want to share that info. Also if anyone knows another RA in good condition then please pm me.
Lovely work on the Type R
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Hi Ian, can I ask where you sourced that RA from? From the pictures it looked amazing. I am looking for one at the moment but a good one is hard to find. I was under the impression it was a keeper aswell and was half tempted to pm you and see if you would sell it, dammit!
What kind of money was in it? I understand if you don't want to share that info. Also if anyone knows another RA in good condition then please pm me.
Lovely work on the Type R
What kind of money was in it? I understand if you don't want to share that info. Also if anyone knows another RA in good condition then please pm me.
Lovely work on the Type R
I sold it for £9k , which seeing whats about it was cheap !
Very rare to find one exactly as it came out of the factory , even had the flare in place !
Did a bit of work to my car the other week , put some paint on the underneath , just need to fix a couple of captive nuts that broke off for the rear cross member then I'm just about ready to put it back together.
Just took advantage of the offer of Meister R coilovers as well
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Right , got a bit more done , time is not on my side , so just need to grab time to work on it when I can .
Stripped the rear shafts down , bead blasted the shaft and CV joints , got some green paint made up close to the original CV green , sprayed the shaft black , and rebuilt them up with new gators , got a lot of the back end done , still short of a few nuts and bolts , then sort the brakes out , got the wheel spacers back from anodising , need to run spacers with the speedline copies I bought , as they don't make them in the WRC offset
That's about it for now , hopefully get the back end finished in the next week or so , can get on painting the floor and moving forwards to do the front end , which shouldn't take long at all as not going as mad on the front
Cheers Ian
Stripped the rear shafts down , bead blasted the shaft and CV joints , got some green paint made up close to the original CV green , sprayed the shaft black , and rebuilt them up with new gators , got a lot of the back end done , still short of a few nuts and bolts , then sort the brakes out , got the wheel spacers back from anodising , need to run spacers with the speedline copies I bought , as they don't make them in the WRC offset
That's about it for now , hopefully get the back end finished in the next week or so , can get on painting the floor and moving forwards to do the front end , which shouldn't take long at all as not going as mad on the front
Cheers Ian
Very nicely done sir!
what paint did you use for your hubs? I recently had my front hubs off, blasted, new bearings & painted but it wasn’t a perfect finish like yours..
Cheers
Rich
what paint did you use for your hubs? I recently had my front hubs off, blasted, new bearings & painted but it wasn’t a perfect finish like yours..
Cheers
Rich
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Bit more done over the last couple of weeks
Managed to pick up a set of Defi's in very good condition
Gave the floor a lick of paint , and started doing under the front arch's
Adjusted the rear strut and fitted a wheel on to see where it sits in the arch with the wheel spacer fitted , needs to come down a little more , she's looking good on the floor with a wheel fitted
Finished fitting the seals and trim around the doors , fitted the rear seat in properly , it's getting closer !
Managed to pick up a set of Defi's in very good condition
Gave the floor a lick of paint , and started doing under the front arch's
Adjusted the rear strut and fitted a wheel on to see where it sits in the arch with the wheel spacer fitted , needs to come down a little more , she's looking good on the floor with a wheel fitted
Finished fitting the seals and trim around the doors , fitted the rear seat in properly , it's getting closer !
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Been a busy bee the last few day on it , got the front struts on , the rebuilt hubs , cleaned up the TCA's , fitted new track rods and ends , fitted the bells I'm using along with the hubcentric spacers , gave it a good wash yesterday afternoon as it's been gathering dust on the ramp for months and was looking a bit sorry for itself !
Still a way to go yet till it's finished , but it's getting there
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N538rEKmsJ1srskXA
Cheers Ian
Still a way to go yet till it's finished , but it's getting there
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N538rEKmsJ1srskXA
Cheers Ian