my cav turbo 4x4 work in progress

TurboSteven77 · Post by **TurboSteven77** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:00 pm

humbucker wrote:
Deeksin wrote:
TurboDan wrote:Nothing like driving it out of the garage after aload of work been done, great feeling.

Looking very nice. Some Good people on ctoc, they really are willing to help at any time.
A signed up for ctoc (even tho a dont have a terbo) but a cant view anything?
Yup, half the board is locked unless you register your Cav Turbo, the rest of it is only viewable once your account is approved. As others have said, a good bunch on there (at least half of the regular users are on here anyway!)

unless your not welcome on there site

looks better with fogs back in

gsi pie · Post by **gsi pie** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:43 pm

i do like silver turbos

under side looks good

SteLowis · Post by **SteLowis** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:22 pm

Looking good fella

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Sat May 05, 2012 9:13 pm

sorted my handbrake out, i now have a working handbrake for the first time in two years, then i removed the back bumper after some twonk damaged it and it wasnt sitting right, anyway i was gutted to find a couple of rust patches on the rear valence, wasnt too bad but its the first rust ive found on the cav, anyway the rust was sanded back, treated with jelonite and the whol rear valence was covered with aluminium paint.

this will be cvered with underseal when its dryed out, then continued cleaning and painting the bottom

getting there slow but sure.

bennymac36 · Post by **bennymac36** » Sat May 05, 2012 9:17 pm

looks good adam don't be parking near me at Billing eh ?

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Sat May 12, 2012 11:16 pm

Done a little bit more today, undersealed rear valance that i painted last week

refitted back bumper

then cleaned and undersealed front driverside wheel arch, and started painting the running gear silver

thats all for today, should be ready in a couple of weeks.

gsi pie · Post by **gsi pie** » Sat May 12, 2012 11:30 pm

looking good ads

HAIRIBO · Post by **HAIRIBO** » Sun May 13, 2012 1:26 am

Thats a lot of work. Gotta say I do prefer the silver to the old yellow.

SteLowis · Post by **SteLowis** » Sun May 13, 2012 9:11 am

Good work dude

Deeksin · Post by **Deeksin** » Sun May 13, 2012 9:28 am

Nice work mate think al gice mine a freshen up looks spot on

Post by **planetc** » Sun May 13, 2012 9:42 am

Definitely an improvement over the yellow.

TurboSteven77 · Post by **TurboSteven77** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:44 pm

is bit you talking about beside battey in above pic cheers

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:38 pm

yeah mate thats it, it includes the breather filter.

Post by **humbucker** » Tue May 15, 2012 9:22 am

this looks mega ads, well done:

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Tue May 15, 2012 9:52 am

humbucker wrote:this looks mega ads, well done:

thanks for the comment mate, makes it all worthwhile, Ads

TurboSteven77 · Post by **TurboSteven77** » Tue May 15, 2012 6:18 pm

will let you know about bit
do you have a how to on fitting it also if yo can let me know if you are going to rr day thanks stephen

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Tue May 15, 2012 11:11 pm

Stephen, i dont think i will make the RR day, as for fitting the catch tank, it couldnt be simpler, the breather hose that goes from rocker cover to turbo, remove hose fron turbo, connect this hose to catch tankwith jubilee clip, blank off nipple on turbo where the breather hose came off, i used a small peice of hose and a bolt, simples, ads

TurboSteven77 · Post by **TurboSteven77** » Wed May 16, 2012 4:27 pm

Ads wrote:Stephen, i dont think i will make the RR day, as for fitting the catch tank, it couldnt be simpler, the breather hose that goes from rocker cover to turbo, remove hose fron turbo, connect this hose to catch tankwith jubilee clip, blank off nipple on turbo where the breather hose came off, i used a small peice of hose and a bolt, simples, ads

that be like this then

ok will pm you on friday about it do you have recinte pic of it cheers

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Sun May 20, 2012 1:20 pm

done a bit more yesterday, wired up my foglights, but only one working, more investigation needed, possibly bulb?, fitted new bottom nalf of air box, as origanal one was full of holes, fitted alternator bracket as mine was missing, fitted new set of clocks as mine were starting to peel,

old one

fitted my veccy steering wheel

started to wire up oil and volt gauges, this still to complete.

TurboDan · Post by **TurboDan** » Sun May 20, 2012 4:46 pm

Oooo i do like that wheel! I was thinking of getting the gsi one for mine but wasnt sure how it would look.

TurboSteven77 · Post by **TurboSteven77** » Sun May 20, 2012 6:42 pm

nice stearing wheel does look nice

Post by **humbucker** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:20 pm

Looks superb, as though it's colour coded to the rest of the car! Will you have any MOT/visibility issues with the wideband gauge in front of the tacho (I may have asked you that before). Did you get the stereo controls on the steering wheel wired up?

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:36 pm

I dont know if it will fail on the wideband being in way of the speedo as it dosnt obstruct the view of any of the dials. Geuss i will find out next month when it goes for mot. as for the sterio controls iam waiting to get wiring out of my mates vectra and ill wire them up when i change my dash.

SteLowis · Post by **SteLowis** » Sun May 20, 2012 10:24 pm

That steering wheel does go with the colour of the car. I was uncertain of the black and silver one in mine with nothing being silver.

caza · Post by **caza** » Sun May 20, 2012 10:33 pm

doing plenty of work there Ads mate, not really done a lot to mine apart from strip sound system out and fit standard cd300 into car, hosepipe ban roung here still so not even cleaned her, but who knows if i sell sound system , what would I spemnd cash on , got 19's like Kev and Adam to go on once i replace tyres that are there at present.
but keep it up like most are saying colour change is better also in my opinion
steve

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