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I have all of them bits here pal PM me

Bump this up lads The car has arrived and I'm glad to say is a little gem! I've given it a full inspection and it's a rust free shell, all running gear etc perfect and it drives great! Ready to be sold... Can be shipped to the UK if needed

All sorted lads In future if anyone needs me in a hurry just call me on my mobile (00353) 86 378 4399... It's in all my ads. The number posted above is one digit wrong. I haven't been on UKSO I was away at the rally for 5 days and when I got back Tuesday I had an accident in the garage and had to get 11 stitches in my hand, so I haven't been easy to contact online. Regards, Conor.

New shoes and socks for the beast! Four brand new Yokohama Advan A048's. They are a wide 205/50/15 profile with a soft compound rubber so should grip up well and suit the 15" 7JJ rims perfectly. All fitted to my genuine TOM's New Action alloys... I also got these brand new red extended STEEL wheel nuts. They are a coloured extended wheel nut, similar to the lightweight aluminium wheel nuts on the market but a lot safer as they will not thread or damage as easily as the soft aluminium ones. They should look well And finally I got my new TOM's sunstrip and TOM's rear window sticker...

We're going in the Glanza mate. Need to see how slow Sock's car is

Just booked our ferry over. Coming over Friday evening into Holyhead and picking up a mate on route:)

All sorted lads cheers

Yep... Time to let myself in for more hardship and the long trek to the UK! Gonna bring plenty of spares and tools this time lol

I have them here mate

Ok guys well as some of you may know there has been a lot happening with this recently... And about time too! I was badly stuck when it came to getting an exhaust to fit the car. As said above, the clutch line from the slave cylinder was firstly hitting the exhaust manifold. We changed to a different style of clutch slave cylinder that brought the pipe out at a different angle avoiding the manifold... But now it was hitting the decat! My friend Robbie from Icetronix phoned me to say he had a new pipe bending machine in that could bend 3" stainless. He was confident he could make ANY exhaust to suit ANY car, and wanted me to get him some business... So I gave him a nice headache to start with! We loaded up the car and off we went... Originally I wanted a wing exit exhaust. We planned to run up and over the turbo and then out the drivers side wing, but the angle of the bend coming up from the turbo was too tight and it wouldn't allow enough clearance for the bonnet to close. Dead set on wanting to be different with a wing exit exhaust, we looked at running the exhaust down and under the turbo kit, then back up at an angle and out the drivers wing. However it was running too close to the oil filter and I was afraid we would run the oil temperature sky high with a red hot exhaust running past the filter. In the end we opted for a 3" straight pipe side exit exhaust. It was braced to the block for extra strength. To allow clearance for the clutch line into the slave cylinder, we cut the downpipe at the flange and changed the angle of it to allow clearance for the clutch line. A flange was incorporated halfway along the exhaust to allow quick and easy removal if needed. In addition to this, we also fabricated a full length stainless steel bracket to mount to the bottom of the front panel. This bracket has my intercooler brackets and the bottom rad brackets welded to it and is very neat. Now for the fun bit! I flipped the external wastegate upside down so the screamer pipe was angled upwards. We then fabricated a stainless steel bonnet exit screamer pipe! The exhaust was finished and was very neat and tidy. Thanks guys! With the position of the exhaust and the screamer pipe now finalised, the car was now ready for paint. Off she went same day to my painter and both of us got stuck into the car straight away. I have a full genuine TOM's bodykit to be fitted, polycarbonate windows, lightweight fibreglass vented wings, lightweight fibreglass bonnet and lightweight fibreglass bootlid. First on the to do list was fit the vented wings so we could then mont the OEM moulding kit over them. After having the wings on and off a few times and making some light adjustments we had them sitting good and the panel gaps to the bonnet and doors all good. We then moved on to the OEM GT Turbo moulding kit. Because the EP85 didn't come with mouldings from factory, we had to use EP82 door and sill brackets to hold the mouldings to stop them flapping around. We carefully measured the bolt holes and drilled the brackets into the ep85 using all the original screws from the brackets. After a lot of careful measuring and taking the moulding on and off several times we finally got them to sit perfect and not rubbing anything with the doors opening and closing... We removed the old door stickers with a heatgun and bit by bit we worked our way around the car, fitting the mouldings as we went and checking everything lined up and gapped ok. They were all bonded and clamped so they sat even and flush with no gaps... Then the fun bit started! After much stressing and measuring we eventually took the plunge and cut the bumper for the side exit exhaust. Thankfully our measurements were bang on and the hole was perfect... While we were feeling lucky we masked up the screamer pipe and roughly marked the bonnet for the screamer pipe exit. We weren't so lucky this time and this hole took a lot of cutting and shaping to get 100%. As with the bonnet, I wanted to leave a good gap around the pipe so the fibreglass or paint wouldn't suffer any heat damage. The hole was awkward to get correct as it had to be an elongated hole because of the angle of the screamer pipe. The finished article With the wings and moulding kit fitted and the bumper and bonnet drilled, it was now time to build up the front of the car. Then came a problem... Because the car was square light originally, the front panel was different and the quadlights would not fit. We modified the front panel slightly so the headlights would slot in And hey presto it's beginning to look like something...! I decided to run with clear indicators instead of the quadlight indicators just to be a little different. I also got this little beauty! A genuine TOM's oil cap in red. Unfortunately it was covered in red paint but it cleaned up well. Lots more updates to come folks!

Took the car out for a few runs on the strip... Nice to be driving her again

Yeah we were thinking about making something up from the original seat rails mate but brains here threw them in the skip sometime last year

PM on the way to you Vincent

Welcome along mate great to have some more Irish guys on here

I have one here in good condition

How many braces do I get for £200? lol

Cool

I have the wheel spacers here mate

I think I have some here Iddy

PM's replied guys

Great stuff glad you are happy! I tell people time and time again, an ECU is the best upgrade you can make on a standard setup"

I'm going for the Quadlight front with my genuine TOM's grill

Love this!

Well guys I finally got motivated and got stuck into this again! It's all systems go once again! Lots of updates for you all and lots more to come... First of all I got my new TD04 hybrid turbo and got the exhaust housing ported and polished to the size of the gasket opening for better flow. Before porting... Porting and polishing process... While the turbo was apart for porting I got the compressor housing machine polished and also my rocker cover. New polished AN8 fittings were welded in for breather pipes on the rocker cover. The turbo compressor housing was rotated to suit the top mounted turbo kit and the oil return set facing the ground. This leaves the oil feed perfectly in line on top and gravity will do the rest Next on the list was to sort some seat rails for my fishnet Recaros. The floor pan is completely different to ordinary EP82's due to the tunnel for the propshaft so ordinary rails will not fit. I've looked and looked and looked but EP85 Recaro rails seem to be impossible to find so we went about making our own! We bought some high grade stainless steel, took some measurements and roughly mocked them up to the floor of my grey RWD GT Starlet. My RWD Starlet has the same floor pan as the TOM's drag car so was ideal to mock up the rails to without damaging the freshly painted inside of the drag car. All welded up... Once the rails were test fitted and all was ok, I took them all apart, sanded, etch primed and painted them... They were hung up for easy painting and were left to dry after several coats... I wire brushed the clutch slave cylinder and painted it silver... While they were drying I fitted the HPI engine damper Next on the list was the turbo kit. The manifold bolted on fine but the rest of it was an extremely tight fit. The turbo and one of the bolts on the exhaust side of the turbo kept fouling on the manifold but with some "gentle persuasion" I got it to line up and bolted everything together. On went the Turbosmart external wastegate and I refitted the newly polished rocker cover with a brand new rocker cover gasket and new rubber washers The turbo needs to be rotated another little bit as it is pointing towards the front panel. The oil feed was ran from the filter housing to the turbo. I will prime the turbo later before start up. In go the coilpacks once again... Now my next problem, the new slave cylinder which I fitted as the original one was hitting the manifold, is now fouling on the downpipe... Back to the drawing board once again! Time to take a break and have a wee think! I taped up the turbo and all the engine openings to protect it from dust and any harmful foreign bodies... I am thinking of making up a new Downpipe and exhaust but I want to stand out from the crowd and be a little different. The obvious solution for this problem was a bonnet exit exhaust but I didn't really fancy that idea. I was looking at some of the cars on the American drag racing scene and a lot of them are now running the teardrop shape exhaust tips. I was thinking of a conventional side exit exhaust but that's been done loads of times and is boring to me now! The new plan is to fabricate a wing exit exhaust and have it exit out through the drivers side front fender. I am going to stick the screamer pipe out the bonnet. The pics aren't great but here is some rough pics of the look I want, except straight out through the wing! I am going to use titanium for the exhaust tip. It is very lightweight and depending on how hot you heat it, it turns a lovely bluey-purple colour. It should look nice when finished. Back to the seats! The rails were fully painted, put back together and bolted up to the seats. The sliders were. Given a good coating of grease before fitting Driver's seat and TOM's harness fitted... Passenger side done... TOM's gearknob added for the finishing touch I think they look mean through the window Next I fitted the ultra lightweight fibreglass bootlid to see what fitment was like. Unfortunately it was fouling on the roof and wouldn't open or close properly so it will need some sanding The standard boot latch wouldn't fit so we had to pop the rivet out that holds the key barrel wire... Next I mocked up the ultra lightweight fibreglass racing bonnet. With some small work and some adjustment to the hinges it should fit perfect. Next up was to mock the rad up to see what space we had to play with... The answer was no space whatsoever! Even with the radiator mounting bracket and rad maxed all the way over to the passenger side. The rad is still touching the downpipe...

Yeah David bought it