Type R

[fai17]

Have you spoked to Alyn regarding new disc for me AP.....give him a bell mate.

[lewisscoob]

Muchos muchos jealous min. Yer fuel gauge winna be up at the top for long now! Car looks stunning and is a credit to you/awd/subaru. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh on the fling!

[davey l wrx]

Must be like getting a new car.... Looking good.

Whats next on the hit list then.... flocked dash?

[scooby222]

ive heard a wee rumour hes planning something unique hes never tried before.........

thats right, driving it!!!!!!!

[fai17]

ive heard a wee rumour hes planning something unique hes never tried before.........

thats right, driving it!!!!!!!

But how is doing the driving

[ciaranrb5]

looking good rich. Will have to come down for a look one day. I presume it's a steel cage?

[cullenmin]

Its the custom cages T45 cage ciaran.

Cheers for the comments lads, I'll give alyn a bell regarding discs.

first real outing in it will be the northern fling

[gus the bus]

Looking excellent Rich

Nice one!

Gus

[ciaranrb5]

Its the custom cages T45 cage ciaran.

Cheers for the comments lads, I'll give alyn a bell regarding discs.

first real outing in it will be the northern fling

Just noticed you still have standard seats. Have you felt the weight of them? Good weight saving to be had if you were to fit lighter seats.

Also get yourself some door cards and tidy it up a bit

[micra_wrc]

.. first real outing in it will be the northern fling

aw noo have you taken the heating out?

you'll need to get some fleeces for Ullapool then!

[cullenmin]

Just noticed you still have standard seats. Have you felt the weight of them? Good weight saving to be had if you were to fit lighter seats.

Also get yourself some door cards and tidy it up a bit

All in good time min

aw noo have you taken the heating out?

you'll need to get some fleeces for Ullapool then!

Yip, heating oot... fleeces, ear defenders & i-pod required lol

[ciaranrb5]

All in good time min

Yip, heating oot... fleeces, ear defenders & i-pod required lol

Heating out as well brave man. Mine should be out shortly as well, although im cheating I have an electric heater for de-misting. Take it you didn't get

perspex windows?

Carbon fibre seats are super light

[cullenmin]

I have a wee heater fitted that blows onto the drivers windscreen, you can just see a hole cut in the dash of one of the photos, hanvt tried it out yet so dont know how effective it is.

[ciaranrb5]

I have a wee heater fitted that blows onto the drivers windscreen, you can just see a hole cut in the dash of one of the photos, hanvt tried it out yet so dont know how effective it is.

Same plan as i have. heaters are for fairies

[cullenmin]

First post in my thread in 2 years, WOW.

Hi folks, well I did say this project might take a while lol, these things are never finished.

Well the car has been off the road for 2 years since I moved back home and bought a house and they aint cheap so scooby funds were non existent. Anyway, car is back on the road and Ive done a few changes since so its all ready for track to give it a good test run.

I had planned to attend the Trackscotland trackday on the 9th of last month, the car was ready 2 days beforehand but it was untested with the new suspension bits and geometry setup etc. Plus I had planned to do my trailer test because I plan to tow the car to knockhill and since I passed my test after 1997, it is illegal for me to tow anything over 750kgs. I passed that test last week so I'm now legal to tow the scooby on the trailer.

What my next plans for the scooby is weight reduction so I'm lookin for any ideas or suggestions to reduce weight?

A lot has already been stripped from the car so it might already be done but fire away anyway

Cheers

Rich

Oh and I'd also like to see this forum with more users once again as its far too quiet in here. I'll try get some new pics for you guys this afternoon if the sun comes out

[thebigfelly]

welcome back,

look forward to the pics,

as for weight reduction, ask badbaz, hes been working on many ways to reduce weight on his blob and ahs been removing anythin thats not essential or compromises safety .

[lewisscoob]

Welcome back rich, look forward to seeing yourself and the car at a track day this year!

[mctwistuk]

Welcome back. I will be watching this thread to see its progress. Now get some pics up lol

Chris

[scooby222]

well look at who alls crawling out of the woodwork - anytime your heading for knockers gimme a shout, theres a long awaited challenge and my cars getting track use now

as for weight reduction the tough mudder training should get rid of the most excess weight your hauling around

[cullenmin]

Ok, so I didnt have the scoob out of the garage today for new pics because I didnt have time.

I've just got myself an E70 X5 3.0D so I decided to put my efforts into cleaning that inside and out since Arnold Clark find it acceptable for their cars to go out to customers without a valet!

I have some pics from last month so i'll get them up tomorrow when I'm back on my own laptop.

Oh aye and I'm doing tough mudder later in the year so best get myself fighting fit for that too, think I need to put on weight and muscle for that though

Rich

[cullenmin]

Wee update on jobs Ive done earlier this year.

All arches were mingin so cleaned them all up, degreased them and then painted them

With that done I had a few jobs to do at front end so removed the front bumper. I knew the bumper bar was going to be rusty so I had planned to replace it if it was so got one off ebay, blasted, painted then fitted it. Other jobs was to modify the bumper to gain better air flow to the oil cooler and also fit a tow strap:

The replacement bumper bar was a different design but it fitted and it was lighter so thats an added bonus.

I also removed the airbag sensors and brackets which are tucked in each side of front bumper

I had a few whiteline bits added so car has now had geometry set up ready for track, still got to play with the roll bar settings and damper settings but all in good time. Front ARB, Rear ARB and roll centre adjust kit fitted but I dont have much pics of that, heres old vs new rear ARB with whiteline brackets:

And how the car looks back together:

Plenty more plans when funds allow and need to get plenty track time this year too

Rich

Edited April 3, 2013 by cullenmin

[lewisscoob]

Cracking job on the arches and bumper bar there Rich. Wanna do mine now?

What engine spec are you running? Last I remember was speaking to flash (iain) gordon yonks ago and he reckoned about 350?

Edited April 3, 2013 by lewisscoob

[cullenmin]

Cracking job on the arches and bumper bar there Rich. Wanna do mine now?

What engine spec are you running? Last I remember was speaking to flash (iain) gordon yonks ago and he reckoned about 350?

Same spec as before, TD05 20G but I'm looking to get that refreshed at some point.

Bumper bar was an easy enough job, I bought replacement plastic clips/screws because you break some of them taking them out. I have access to a blaster so done that then primed and painted it with spray cans, lookin like new again

[monsterenergy]

Ye've bin chavin awa, eh?!

Good work, loon!

[cullenmin]

Wee update of what Ive been up to this week......

From this:

A lot of swear words in the middle....

To this:

Removed this:

I bought a Q-Max punch for cutting the holes and I have removed as much for now from the drivers door so I still have use of the electric windows.

The crash bar was a complete ballache but thanks to a thread I read on 22b, ARCH had gave advice to someone else on how to remove the bar so I did just that. Thank You Arch if you read this

Anyway to remove bar, cut at the brackets at each side of the bar then use a wire to break through the glue stuff holding the bar to the door skin. I also used a scalpel to aid this. I broke two bits on my dremel, borrowed one form Westra (Cheers Mark), 3 metal cutting discs, scraped knuckles and I then had to cut the bar in half to remove it from my door.

Heres a pic of one of the cuts with the dremel:

I havnt weighed what I have removed yet and I have the other door still to do. My plan is to get the car as light as possible so trimming excess weight here and there is what I have to do.

Couple of pics after my wee run:

All pics taken on phone so not best quality but I know how you all like a few pics anyway

Rich