Hello,

Thought I would start a project thread as the car will be moving forward soon in the next few weeks hopefully.

This is my 1st scoob but by no means my 1st performance/modified car.

Needed something to bring the dog along in this time though so a wagon seemed the best option.

Here's the dog!



I popped over to Newport auctions 1 evening with a mate of mine who was looking for something cheap & I spotted this while I was there.



After a bit of discussion with the retailer I secured her for a rock bottom price!

She is totally standard 1 doctor owner with FSH. I tracked down the doctor & had a lil chat with him he sounded some what ancient but was a true petrol head listing a number of cars he'd had previous to this scoob.

As said I got her for a bargain price this mainly down to the fact I believe the doctor had ran her into a rather large bush & needed some body work on the passenger side nothing major & he must of had a reversing accident as the rear needed attention as well.

Anyway I logged in here & soon discovered that saloon newage's had wider fenders. So set about to see if things were interchangeable! low & behold they were. So made the decision that instead of replacing the panels like for like I would replace them with saloon item

So began ordering parts from various breakers.

While waiting for the parts I decided to de-tango the front lights & fit some clear side markers & wire them up as side lights.



I have also fitted an after market mesh grille which I haven’t got pics of yet & am waiting on some hella supertone horns from the states to arrive to tuck behind that grille. oh & there are tegiwa Newage tow hook's fitted back & front.

Well as the parts started to turn up I started to bolt them on I tested fitted the front wings & rolled the lips then fired them off to my mate for a quick touch up of paint as 1 wing wasn’t as mint as described & needed to be welded up. Once they were back from the pain shop on they went with the bumper & rear doors.

 

nice!!

 

I spent last Friday & part of Saturday morning doing this to a saloon in a breakers yard.




So now just waiting for my mate to have a spare week to start making what came off the saloon fit my wagon!

Will get pics as we do the conversion & we start to chop the wagon




Got the wings all cut out so just waiting for my mate to have afree weekend hoping either this week or next can't wait

 

holy crap, when i read the title i though you meant just the front wings.

respect fella thats a big job!!!

cant wait to see the finished job

 

If your gunna do a job mate then do a job lol the rear archs were a lil crusty so would need doin anyway so thought stuff it let's go wide

 

mate dont talk to me about doing an arch job right, i couldnt agree more....

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lol

 

Huge ***** to do that but when it's done it will look spot-on

 

You need alloy front control arms now to flush out your wheels

 

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Lol no mate just need a wide *** set of wheels

So wanna get on with this just waiting for my mate really as I can't weld lol along with the fab work filler work and paint lol

Done a few lil bits while I been waiting though new grill fitted some tow hooks and some nice horns also fitted coilovers and next week induction sti manifold with tgv deletes and full exhaust will be going on.

 

still waiting on my mate to have a free weekend to hit into the rear arches so in the mean time took to fitting this lot which has been sat in the shed for a lil while



Sti inlet with tgv deletes
full de cat system & decat up pipe
silicon intake pipe
jap speed oil breather/catch can
hks short ram induction kit

engine bay looked like this



now looks like this



rear end looked like this



now looks like this

 

Are you going with FMIC in future matey?

Looking forward to see finished project with those saloon arches,we are thinking too about this,but we are probably go with ABW arches


Jura

 

Hi jura

Yea fmic will be coming but wheels are the next purchase

I really hoped arches would ofbeen on by now but my mate is ridiculously busy and he needs to earn cash this is just soemthing he is doing as a favour so will fit me in as and when

Yea I seen the abw arches I was thinking of adding the saloon 1's to mine if needed see where the wheels sit 1st

 

Well my mate James who owns Restomod in Bristol free'd up sometime to attack this for me so I started off drilling the spot welds out and he started with the air axle we weren't sure how things were gunna line up but knew we had to start cutting.

We slid the ar h over and the saloon 1's are longer which turned out to be a good thing as he could than form a step into thr lights like on the saloon's the arch curve was different as well it went longer so the back bumper needed modding also didn't line up perfectly around the buer line so he is building that out to make it all look factory.

I also attacked then with the arch roller to give the wheels a fighting chance of going under the arch when I drop the coilys down. They are a bit wobbly at the min but nothing james can't sort with a small hammer and his skills!!

We encountered a lot more rust than we had hoped so couldn't get it all finished so fingers cossed he will have them buttoned up and in primer on Monday but in the mean time here are some pics of where we got to.

Drivers side.































Passenger

 

That's some impressive work - and I though smoothing out the wing markers on mine was a top job

 

looks good but did you treat the rust on the inner arches mate before welding the new ones on? ,.

 

Lol wouldn't of left it like that

All cut out and replaced then gunna wax oil it to hell on inside and stone chip the crap out of it on the outside

 

ok so not much happening with the bodywork we have decided to make a back bumper out of a saloon and wagon rear bumpers but they have to be v8 as vesrion 7's don't match up.

In the mean time I have done a lil more work under the bonnet red red red lol

 

Also did a bit inside the car allnthe switches and dials glow red now and painted the needles red and fitted the warning light for my psi3

 

The under bonnet is definitely RED - bit too much for me but I'm going red as well

Dials look good

 

Yea it is a lil bit too much I think I might change a few of the covers back to black

 

Ok so decided it was too much red so went for this instead and I love it



Started to mock up the new rear bumper we are making out of a blobeye wagon and saloon bumper and seems to give much better clearance and follow the line if the arch better but off to new york in just over 2weeks so she goes into the bodyshop then to get finished off and painted!!! Can't wait

 

great work

 

Still waiting on my mate to finsih it off

However I fitted the ht autos splitter as I was bird also.removed the tegiwa newage specific tow hook(now for sale) and went about fitting their universal front tow hook I am happy with the job and its fully functional


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What wheels are they mate???

 

Xxr 527's 18x9.75 man size!!!

 

Looking great so far. You are basically doing the hardcore version of what I want to do. I will be doing the front arches like you but just having the rear arches rolled.

Do the saloon front wings fit with the original wagon front bumper? Or did it need modifying?

Dan

 

youve given me some idea... :P

love it mate

 

I fitted a saloon front bumper I don't think the wagon would fit it might with mods but easier to use the saloon 1

Going to make a rear bunper from a v8 saloon and v8 wagon that's the biggest job left to do really before paint

Geeting boot sorted and de-locked and front wing markers removed next weekend along with all the little dents