Well, at least I think it is a well known Coupe on here?

It even still has MissLickyLs(?) number plates on. I bought the car from here for £300, and it turned up with a well known 16VT issue, a knackered exhaust cam.

Luckily, I have a 16VT track day car which had a decent 250bhp engine in it already, so it was decided a shell swap was due!

I drove my old Coupe into my friends workshop at 10am in the morning and drove the new reshelled Coupe home at about 9pm. I think that may be a record. The only hold up was replacing the speed sensor which dropped inside the diff casing.

We swapped all suspension, subframe, engine, rad, gear linkage, fuel pump ECU and exhaust.

The only bits we didnt change were brake calipers and rear ARB, but they can be done at any time. And as money is earnt a rollcage and decent buckets will follow.

Anyway, here are some pics after a clean, consider a decent 16VT saved and a bad one off to the scrappers!

Old Coupe







Reshelled











Some swap pics

Well done that man

Shabba

Good work for keeping it going. Always photographed well and would have been a shame to scrap her.

Good work - and in double quick time!

She wasnt far from the end as I got her. The shell is very good, but most of the running gear was pretty worn.

But as far as what I was looking for its perfect.

Great stuf!
I always liked the car, used to look good on those Torra T250's too. She's Looking great now though, and that was good going to get that done in a day!

This thread reminds me of my old 16vt, (a car I wish I kept) mine was pretty standard, still you can't beat that raw power delivery and the characteristics from the 16vt lump.






Good work

Nice job, thats the best red one I've seen in ages!

Saw this pop up on Pistonheads too ;-)

Cracking work

Yep, Ive been floating around there for a few years, mainly for the Le Mans forum, although this will never go there!

I recognise the car who's was it ?

Mrs LickyLs