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Cheggers wrote:I somtimes wonder how it will behave in a crash at times.

Shatter in to a million bits. lol

Greig

Read the date it says that ford are going to test ur eyes, 1st of April. lol

Greig

That would be a 430 mile trip for me just to get there. To far for me to go for it.

Greig

Thanks for that. Its a hobby fixing up the car, but I do like cavs. Dont know what ill do when the bodywork is all done. The car will be put in to retirement when finnished , only used now and again.

Greig

Thats a fair bit of rust. Well thankfully my has no rot in the legs, if it had i wouldnt be fixing it.

Greig

My plan is get all the body work finnished and send it off for a respray, but thats going to take me a wile so mabe not just a winter plan.lol.

Greig

branny361 wrote:
my xe does what it says so the figures are quite accurate

Ill 2nd that!!

Greig

Part 3 :- The body work. The car needed a new pannel fitted under the lights, so the front of the car came off. A couple of pathches were needed under the front wheel arches , so the front linners and suspension came off for that. The drivers side rear arch had a small patch of rust showing, but the...

FoxyCav wrote:


car looks cool in the wip pics mate, keep em coming

I will do, part 3 coming soon.

Greig

Envoy CDX wrote:It is a lovely bit of road, although I didn't even know I was on it till I got to the toll booth

Snap, same here. My excuse is it was about 3.00am and I was tired. Just never seen the turn off for the normal m6.

Greig

Aye, K reg Sri red tops are the best. lol

Greig

Cavyman_130 wrote:
Welcome mate, sure I met you last year at the speedfest show up at knockhill? you were parked next to me on the Vxlscc stand?

If you had the blue 'J' reg SRi 130, then yes we have met before.

Greig

Here is the video of the engine running haning from the garage roof.

http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 007fe7.flv

Greig

Part 2:- Not long after I got the engine back in and running it started to leak oil. Wos coming out from behind the fly wheel. Very nasty because the gear box needs to come off and to get the gear box off the sub frame has to come off with the front suspension.then to get the sub frame off the exhau...

Looks loads better, is that an autosprint manifold? It sure is and so are the cams .Thay did the lightend bits to. Boxed up the bits and sent them all the way down to them. looks ace. love the work you've put into it. will have to talk to you about the vectra cruise control as I've been collecting ...

Done a w.i.p. thred check it out and let me know what you think.

Greig

Part 1:- This is my long running w.i.p.. Done a lot to this car so far in the 2 and a bit years ive had it. New brakes all round (V6 vectra brakes on front), All new supension (And i mean every thing new),new petrol tank/ sender unit and pipes, new rad, new power steering pipe and lots of other new ...

Hello, Im new here. so be gentle with me. lol

Ive got a 1993 saloon Sri 16v, in a thousand bits at the moment. its a long work in progress , hope to get it all done by the end of the year.

Greig