Its not yet finished !!!

kidding, keep up the excellent work

Rob

 

Keep going mate, looking really good.

 

Looking great in colour, like the center supports from the dash bar ( i might be nicking that idea !!!)

 

Thanks guys! yeah its a great feeling to be at this stage of the project although theres still so much to do, with everything all nice and painted you just dont want to fit any dirty or rusty parts to it so its all the fiddly jobs from now on.
Ive stripped and rebuilt the pedal box, steering column, handbrake and gear linkage...

 

No worries about that Ian as i have nicked one of yours ideas too so we are even! you will notice in good time..

James

 

lol, no it certainly is dragging on a bit now Rob!
Im trying to get bits n bobs done in the kitchen now while its a bit cold.
I might drag the wiring loom in there next and see how much i can trim off it.

James

 

good looking project,..great work,...keep it up.

 

The wiring loom is finished,ive cut out everything i dont want, abs,aircon,airbag,stereo,etc etc even all the heater circuits as i am going to fit a simple inline fan and make my own heater matrix box to keep things simple plus i didn't want to fit a huge standard heater box.
A good few hours in the kitchen and i had cut out a good chunk if wiring loom..




And the waste pile..



And the loom fitted to the car, ive tried to keep it as tidy as possible and out of sight, should look ok with the dash fitted.



The engine bay is also starting to fill up now, brake and clutch master cylinder fitted, brake pipes, boost pack...



I also dropped a bit of a clanger! ive welded in the front turret rollcage bar rite where the window wiper mechanism goes so im hoping i can rig up a single wiper thingy ma jig!

 

Great job on the wiring - I need to do that on mine but I'll wait until I've removed everything I don't want

 

Good work on the wiring, car is coming along nice...

Not sure I'd get away with doing the wiring loom in the kitchen

 

Top job.

You must have an understanding wife mine would leather me for such kitchen chaos lol

 

Come on James wheres the updates????

 

Hi John! Just noticed you have dug my thread back out lol.
Nothing really exciting to update about yet, I've been doing the bodywork for a while now I've put some serious hours into it and I'm not even half way there.
I've only got a handful of jobs left to do on the car once its painted so I just need to knuckle down on the bodywork. I'm hoping to have it finished before winter!

James

 

Here's a quick shot of what I'm up against, the fibre glass panels are decent quality and the main lines are ok but ever panel has still got ripples and dinks in it as you can see by the filler I have put in I'm trying to take my time and get it super smooth....... I hope!

 

5 months since last update!!!

What you been upto James?? Is the 205 ready for some track action??

You know im getting excited to see this finished!!

 

Hi John!

Well thanks for digging my thread out the archives yet again its give me the kick up the butt I need lol.
There is going to be a serious update in the next couple of days I just need to take some pictures, hope your well, hows your new scoob?

James

 

Looking forward to the updates!! Was going to send you a pic of a Pug 205 T16 rally car I was next to the otherday, to give you some inspiration!!!


My scoob still good, just needs a new forged 2.5 and a billet SC46!! finished the exterior with wide wheels, lowered etc, looks very NASIOC!!!!!

 

Now this is an interesting build!!! Subscribed!!!!!

 

oops well that didn't work!

 

Sorry, I'm having some serious Lappy troubles.
Back soon!

 

Right then! time for an update, basically nearly 5 months ago I broke my leg and ankle in a downhill mountain biking accident so that's why progress has been slow.. BUT, all that said and and done I have been hobbling around the car on my crutches and managed to get a good chunk of it done. I just want to say that I am never going to take on a project of this size again lol, the engine conversion was a big enough job but the body work has just been gruelling! but to be fair,its all a memory now, heres a few pics.

 

 

I have painted the car in cellulose Ford Frozen White over a period of about a month to let all the coats settle and sink and I'm really happy with the results although I think I have put the last coat on to quickly as I've got some solvent popping going on but I ended up losing my window of warm weather opportunity so I will give it a final rub down and a few new coats next year, I also still need to paint the doors and the tail gate is currently under construction Its going to be vented.

 

Now for the bonnet and the front bumper, now bare in mind this project has been inspired from rally cross and is only a track car so its meant to be ugly and mean as ****, I didn't really want to use a top mount intercooler but things are quite tight in the engine bay so this just simplified thinks I,ve used a newage wrx cooler so a slight upgrade and i will fabricating an under tray duct that will hopefully direct the air plus the 205 bonnet is quite slanted so i think the air will find its way in.

 

Looking good James... Like that you have used the side fins to get air flow in...how's the leg now ?

 

That last pic is fantastic, top effort

 

That's going to look mental, some rally inspired graphics to match too I hope

 

Thanks Ian, legs not to bad I suppose but now I'm back at work full time it's bladdy painfull it's far from perfect to be honest! Yours is coming on too by the looks roll on next year for us both ay!
I still need to pop round you'll have to let me know where its new home is.

James

 

Thanks!!!!

 

Thanks mate!! Yes I'm definitely planning on graphics of some kind it think it would be rude not to.