Scooby Sport tweaks - Stage 1
 

It didnt take long before I started fettling and making a few changes to the sport and it has only been a week !!

There is a lot to do on the car and whilst I have no set plan of what to do and when, I have just started on some areas that needed doing and some bit which cropped up.

This is one of the latter :)

My mate Paulo had some STi springs and 2 pot calipers/discs/pads left over from his Colin McRae 555 and was very kind to donate them to a worthy cause.

This is how it started out

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Wheels off to see the knackered 1 pot sliders

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Then with me expertly telling Paulo how to do it ;), he set about swapping the old discs for the larger spec ones and calipers

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I couldnt resist cleaning every part that came off even though I was described as a tart :lol1:. All washed and painted even though you wont see them

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On
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And finally how the car looks now with the change in ride height

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Oh and the eagle eye readers will notice the Sport decals have gone as well, I have to thank my good lady for that. She set to on the front wing decals and the ones on the back.

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I'd forgotten just how much room there was between the caliper & wheel before we started! I knew the new brakes looked better (the single pots were knackered) but I'd not really noticed the difference in the clearance.

You forgot to take a photo of my mod ;) The best bit of the car IMHO :nono:

Are you talking about you spraying the drums black ?

:)

You can't beat a bit a fettling....!

Keep up the good work both doing a grand job .

Yep :D Car looks much better already :) Lots more to do though :)

Thats a nasty bump on the front...!

Also managed to give the car it's first clean on the outside, clean of the wheels. Nothing major to report as the light was bad and it was only a start before I give it a proper 2 day clean with paintwork correction

Quick shot of the foaming stage

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Gearknob replaced and white clocks from my old scoob :thumb:

Thanks Lee, been fun so far though snapping the nipple bolt of the rear drum didnt help :mad:

Yes and it will look even better by the end of next weekend :thumb:

Yes, it came like that but will be easily sorted by sourcing a new bumper, hopefully one in the same colour

Loving that foam action whats that you use?

Il keep a lookout for a bumper for you whats the paint code 95h mica by anychance same as mine if so .

'Nipples' must of bean a stiff one then !

We may be sober by Monday evening, not sure what part of the world you'll be in when you sober up though :norty:

Foam is Elite Superfoam from Elite Car care with the Karcher Foamgun attachment , mix in a little bit of Poorboys as well :)

Yes bumper is 95H , been after one for a while now

Nipple was a ******* , used an easyout from Halfords and snapped that as well :mad::brickwall

True, but then I never said I was doing it :lol1:

And pray where will I be next monday, you are my best man and meant to be looking after me on my stag night, not conspiring to send me to coventry :D

You should sue Halfords under the trades description act :rolleyes: easyout? Easywaytototallyf*ckitup more like! :mad:

I don't remember seeing that in the job description :Suspiciou Coventry isn't far enough though :norty:

It wont be far enough for some people :lol1:

By the way thanks for cleaning the wheels on the M3 earlier, shame I thrashed the crap out of it and made them dirty :lol1: First time I've thrashed it since last year! :eek:

They better not be dirty already, go out there and lick them clean :mad:

I'm sure the dirt will just fall off now :lol1: Using my filthy 555 tomorrow instead :D

It will dont worry :)

Enjoy :thumb:

Enjoy....I'm not really looking forward to another long motorway journey to be honest, they are so bloody boring!

I don't think I'm going to wash it between now and your wedding :lol1:

:thumb: looks good swiss

looking good bud

Cheers mate :thumb:

looks good, my first scooby was a sport - most of the changes were cosmetic but I loved it and cherished it for 4 years until someone drove into the side of me and wrote it off :(
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Just bought one of those bumpers in that paintcode, from Doncaster Motor Spares, now known as MotorHog.

Paid £85 for it, it came with foglights, (sold for £56) wedges and clear indicators. So the bumper cost me £29:)

Give them a try, it's web-based, you search a part, they e-mail you a price.

Will have a butchers, cheers :thumb:

Did you do a rear disk conversion?

It kind of got forced on me as the rear hubs are breaking up and making a droning noise so took the opportunity to source some rear discs, calipers, pads, hubs with abs sensors, arb and mounting points with the rear trailing arms.

Doing it this weekend