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Steve's Winning Blue 350BHP 5E EP85 Project


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The Origins:

Banzai Feature:

Many of you will remember Gaz's Blue EP85 which was featured in Banzai back in 2008:

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Up For Sale:

Towards the end of 2011, Gaz stripped everything out of it, leaving it as a bare rolling shell and put it up for sale. I bought it in November 2011 for £2,800 with the roll-cage, a spare set of running gear, alloy fuel tank and a few other bits and pieces:

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Picking the beast up:

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Finally at home:

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Appearance:

I want to do a few things to the car to customize it's looks to my tastes. The things I want to change include:

  • Replace the hideous red bonnet
  • Lighter coloured wheels that really stand out (possibly Gold)
  • Removing the stickers from the rear window
  • Fit a modified Mk3 bootlid
  • Painting the front calipers & rear drums
  • Possibly fit a Livesports spoiler
Bonnet Swap:

The very first thing I had to do was remove that awful red bonnet and fit one that suits the car better:

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Next on my list was fitting some wheels that really make the car stand out. I have had a set of 15" Rota Slipstreams for about 5 years - the chrome was peeling quite badly on these, so I decided to get them sprayed:

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I also fitted my Rota GT3s to see what they look like on the car:

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Custom Boot-lid

I modified a Mk3 boot-lid by removing the fake lights (and wiper & lock), making a fibreglass base and adding filler on top. This isn't yet finished - I just did a quick test spray to see how it would come out:

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Messing about with a Glanza Livesports Spoiler

I thought it would be funny to chuck on a Livesports Spoiler from a Glanza. Here's the results:

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Interior

Rear interior paintwork

I decided to start spraying the inside rear of the car in the same colour as the paintwork (Mazda Winning Blue):

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Rear speakers

In one of my old EP82s, I built a false floor with 2 amps (MTX for the subs and Fli for the speakers), double sub box with 2 Infinity 12" subs, and an angled shelf with 4 Infinity 6x9s and a power cap.

To save space and more importantly weight, I decided to try fitting them in the rear quarter gaps...

Attempt 1

First I decided to try making up a panel using wire mesh and fibreglass:

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Attempt 2

Then I had the bright idea of modifying the stock panel plastics to do the same job with far less time and effort:

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Performance

Giant Intercooler

I decided to see how well my ridiculously big intercooler would fit:

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GOLD Intercooler

I decided to buy a gold intercooler that another member was selling - this should go nicely with the gold wheels:

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Always loved gaz's car, my favourite on the owners clubs.

Keep up the restoration bud

Cheers mate - was always my favourite too :)

I've just had a quick scan through your Progress Blog and noticed you have a Sequential gearbox??? Can I ask how much that costs to do? I'd love mine to have a sequential box!!! Cheers

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nice to see that car went to a good home :)

that glanza livesports spoiler looks strangely good on there ;)

James

Cheers. Yeah, it kinda suits it... I might be tempted to get a Livesports EP82 Spoiler at some point ;)

Nice to finally see a build thread on this :)

What turbo you gonna run on it ?

TD05-16G to start off with (since I've got a decent kit sitting around), but probably something like this down the line...

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More Wheels

On Wednesday, I went to pick up a set of Rota Grids since I wanted to change to 16" wheels. Can anybody tell that I like Rota wheels yet lol

I'm thinking of painting the wheels gold (a shinier gold than last time) and the calipers/drums Blue... maybe.

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