Posted By: coupedummy
coupedummy's coupe restoration project - 13/03/2009 10:39
So here its is, my 1998 coupe which I plan to res-surect from the dead.
The car has 163k on the clock with history form the past 4 years only.
I brought the car for £400 and armed with this large list of things to sort hopefully this summer I will be able to drive this car on the road.
The car hasn’t really been looked after to well at all really as need of some very much needed TLC. The car ran and starts first time still boosting like a good-un albeit the Smokey turbo.
Firstly when I got the car back to Dudley was a compression test, which came out around 150psi across all cylinders.
Happy days
Here is the original advert
I LOVE this car. I don't really want to get rid of it at all but it’s painful to see it just sitting about looking swanky in the drive. I'm totally skint and love the car too much to have it going rusty under a dust sheet until I can afford to fix it. It deserves to be tearing up country lanes and posing in the sunshine.
It has no tax and no MOT. I am told by Country Cruising the repairs will be around £500. It failed on...
1. Nearside & offside anti roll bar rubber brush bonding deteriorated resulting in excessive movement.
2. Near and offside windscreen wipers not effective.
3. Centre rear (tailpipe) exhaust system has a pert missing
4. Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle excessive.
5. Exhaust emissions hydrocarbon content after 2nd fast idle excessive.
6. Exhaust emits clearly visible black smoke during acceleration.
7. Needs new rear break discs?
8. Parking brake efficiency below requirements
9. Front wheels brakes imbalanced.
10. Rear nearside, offside and parking brakes recording little or no effort.
I have the last 4 years service history (since my mate bought it) and the red key. My mate had a full AA inspection done on it 4 years and I have that too.
163k on the clock, cam belt and clutch last changed at 138k. There is a comment on one of the services that the smoking is probably due to cat, possibly a leaking turbo, and there is a crack in the manifold.
The bodywork is fab except for scuffs on rear bumper. Inside equally lovely. Tan interior.
So far the parts collected for fitting are-
Turbo
Manifold
Exhaust
Cat
Thermostat
Widget
Radiator
These are the first to be fitted to hopefully get the car back running and passing that cruddy emissions test.
The body work is also a little tired also so will need to be sorted after.
I’ m attempting this project to save one more coupe from the choppers hopefully and learn to be more mechanically minded. I plan to do majority of the work myself.
The end results id like are a mechanically and cosmetically sorted standard coupe.
Modifications worth considering eventually will be
Honeycombed grill
Le Kit
Plus wheels
Hids
And just maybe a flea map.
These are a long way away but achievable hopefully.
It’s going to be a long journey but I will get there I think on my own steam.
when i first saw her under a tree in cambridge
The car has 163k on the clock with history form the past 4 years only.
I brought the car for £400 and armed with this large list of things to sort hopefully this summer I will be able to drive this car on the road.
The car hasn’t really been looked after to well at all really as need of some very much needed TLC. The car ran and starts first time still boosting like a good-un albeit the Smokey turbo.
Firstly when I got the car back to Dudley was a compression test, which came out around 150psi across all cylinders.
Happy days
Here is the original advert
I LOVE this car. I don't really want to get rid of it at all but it’s painful to see it just sitting about looking swanky in the drive. I'm totally skint and love the car too much to have it going rusty under a dust sheet until I can afford to fix it. It deserves to be tearing up country lanes and posing in the sunshine.
It has no tax and no MOT. I am told by Country Cruising the repairs will be around £500. It failed on...
1. Nearside & offside anti roll bar rubber brush bonding deteriorated resulting in excessive movement.
2. Near and offside windscreen wipers not effective.
3. Centre rear (tailpipe) exhaust system has a pert missing
4. Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle excessive.
5. Exhaust emissions hydrocarbon content after 2nd fast idle excessive.
6. Exhaust emits clearly visible black smoke during acceleration.
7. Needs new rear break discs?
8. Parking brake efficiency below requirements
9. Front wheels brakes imbalanced.
10. Rear nearside, offside and parking brakes recording little or no effort.
I have the last 4 years service history (since my mate bought it) and the red key. My mate had a full AA inspection done on it 4 years and I have that too.
163k on the clock, cam belt and clutch last changed at 138k. There is a comment on one of the services that the smoking is probably due to cat, possibly a leaking turbo, and there is a crack in the manifold.
The bodywork is fab except for scuffs on rear bumper. Inside equally lovely. Tan interior.
So far the parts collected for fitting are-
Turbo
Manifold
Exhaust
Cat
Thermostat
Widget
Radiator
These are the first to be fitted to hopefully get the car back running and passing that cruddy emissions test.
The body work is also a little tired also so will need to be sorted after.
I’ m attempting this project to save one more coupe from the choppers hopefully and learn to be more mechanically minded. I plan to do majority of the work myself.
The end results id like are a mechanically and cosmetically sorted standard coupe.
Modifications worth considering eventually will be
Honeycombed grill
Le Kit
Plus wheels
Hids
And just maybe a flea map.
These are a long way away but achievable hopefully.
It’s going to be a long journey but I will get there I think on my own steam.
when i first saw her under a tree in cambridge