Hi All,

Well as some of you already know, I've sold my pug and bought another Scoob to replace the pug as my track toy.

The car was being advertised as a STI RA ,but upon arrival I had a feeling it was a STI 555 and my assumptions were correct. Anyway after being on the road for 8 hrs I still decided to go ahead and buy this.

All in all after 16hrs on the road, as soon as we got home I stuck it straight in the garage and its been there since ,slowly being worked on. This is only because I've spent most of my time hunting down parts that I ideally want.

So since last week, I've bought a STI RA v2 box which has just been rebuilt, aset of coil packs and I've only just bought a 3.9 rear diff to match the box.

Next lot to buy is :

Exhaust system - Must be track useable so below 101db ideally

FMIC

Suspension - Undecided what to have now as acouple of guys who do trackdays in there scoobs have given me some advice of different manufactures to use as the car will be part road & track

ECU - decisions decisions

Anyhow here are some pics of the car before I bought it, it had been stuck in the yard for a year which you can imagine the bodywork has had all kinds of s**t over it.







Since then, I've washed the car very carefully as I had to do it in the garage. Then I had to T-cut the whole car to remove any oxidiation and bird plops, then repolish the car to bring up the shine of the original sport blue






Sorry Kev I just had too

 

Looking good buddy

 

lookig good mate, glad things are coming together

Did you get those mats Off SSS??? there ther kind he always get in his shots whilst wearing slippers!!!!!

 

Looks great mate, got a soft spot for them, ask turbodean saw this on ebay but needed a daily driver got the right wheels for that car as well

 

Nice roof vent

Looks good now it's had a good clean Mat
Like the floor mats

 

Roof vents are like buses these days










Popped around Matt's the day after he got it, looks a nice unmolested version

 

Very shiney mate, come up a treat!!

 

Will have to call in for a nosey by the look of it

 

Si pop round anytime mate, I'll be working on it mostly over this coming week, except Tuesday back in work for 1 day plus I've got a shopping list to give you so you can start searching for some bits for me.

 

Im well jealous mate, im gagging to get a track car but i just cant justify it at the mo. Look forward to seeing it on the track

 

Well while its been dry morning, I decided to get round to removing the old gearbox from me car.

While the gearbox was off, I thought to check the Clutch and Flywheel condition. I always expected to fork out another few hundred quid for a decent clutch and flywheel as I was putting on a newly rebuilt gearbox.

Instead to my amazement, I found that my car has already a brand spanking new AP racing clutch and Flywheel which looks like it hasn't been used yet, thats just saved me afew hundred quid. Bargain !!!!!!

 

That was a nice suprise

 

That's a massive stroke of luck Mat

 

Just abit of an update.

I'm slightly behind on the project but I eventually got the new gearbox on which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. All thats left for the drivetrain then is to fit the new propshaft and diff.

Though before its fired up, there are afew more bits to be added on. I've been on a spending spree again this week and I've bought a 2nd hand set of Oz alloys for a bargain price of £100 with tyres and I've also just bought a 2nd hand FMIC which will also be fitted in afew weeks.

I'm just waiting on the Suspension and ECU, which wont be to far behind.

 

Loving the roof vent

 

wish i could find a little gem like that

looks a good project!!!

 

FFS I gotta take the gearbox back off, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

On testing the clutch fork it appeared to not work, so now I know why the previous owner had problems with the box, when they fitted the new clutch, the clutch release bearing was on the wrong way and I presumed it was correct when I removed the box.

Remind to oneself, read the manual next time before starting

Of course I didn't realise this until my old man looked at a online manual and found out about the bearing issue.

The only plus side to this, it appears I have a now a good 2nd gearbox which I thought was duff

Now I gotta spend another couple of hours to take the ruddy box back off.

Oh well another delay, whats new.

 

I thought I could here a lot of cussing and swearing from over your way

 

Just alittle update.

The gearbox has been removed with a quick change of the bearing and chucked back on within an hour, I was quite surprised how fast we done it this time, all that moaning and it was simple.

Though for the other news, I picked up some other bits today which required doing afair bit of travelling, by that I mean to North Wales and back with a side stop at Stoke on trent, but I gotta be honest these were both a bargain and also I have another bargain on the way.

I picked up :

AutoBahn FMIC kit
Oz PWRC alloys with Tyres ( require refurb to white )

And also I've got a full setup of AST Coilovers onroute but I need to replace the NSF strut, if anyone knows of one for sale, please let me know guys.

 

tidy mat fair play
are you going for full track or daily drive or both fella
if looking for seats for track check out the rally place bigbrakes knows

 

Cheers Rich, its going to be 80/20 towards trackday's .

As for seat's, I just had alook at this site and I've sent them a PM as they dont have price's.

We'll have to wait and see what they say.

 

looking good fella

 

Its coming along nicely Matt.

 

Well its been one of those busy weekends with lots of pain and cuts.

Driveshafts all attached with new boots
Front suspension changed
Gearbox mounts and engine mounts attached

Rollcage prepared and ready to go in
Oil cooler assembled ready for fitting
Gauges ready to be wired up


I think I ought to put this in the projects page.

 

this thread is no good without pics

 

Pic's ? If I must, though the pic's wont be that good as you've seen the size of my garage.

Also I found out that the Tein's I have are Control Master flex not Superstreet, are they better or worse ?

 

there the same but superstreet can be controled from inside the car i think

 

seems to be coming along nicely matt, as daz says a few pics wouldnt go a miss

 

Will have have another pop around soon Matt, on the road soon mate I hope

 

By the end of the week, it should be running.

I've just gotta finish the exhaust system and the system flush and hey presto it's up and running.