Project Zombie

[Jag-D]

Well, I had the S40 up for sale for a while and also had it on the Swapz website where I received a few interesting offers.

One of which was a road legal quad, but not exactly something I want or need atm. a rather nice Vecturd Estate was on offers, but I've just come from one of those so wanted something different.

Another was a track prepped, road legal Fiesta XR2 with 1800 Zetec conversion, big brakes, 2 litre cams and RS Turbo ECU and fuel management whatsits...but needed a whole panel replacing on the fuel cap side

Then I was offered a 1990 Eunos Roadster...

Ok I know it's not practical, but I couldn't help but be intrigued at the proposition, even if to sell on.

Low and behold, I've now got it and I think I might keep it

It was subject to a cat c in 2005, but VOSA Vic checked and is in straight order at the moment. The previous owner didn't tell me so was a bit annoyed

It has an oil leak which my friends Snotrag thinks he's sussed as a common problem, so hoping to have that fettled this week.

Bootlid is manky, needs respraying, paint a bit st in places, but mechanically sound and plenty of T&T

anywho, here she is as she stands:











If it proves to be realiable, I might even throw some money at it on a couple of little tweaks and alterations

All in all, not bad considering I've only got £300 in the old girl

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soad said:

Feeling that, be good to hear how you get on with it.

Get in okay? Being a big bloke and that

Aye space is more than I thought!

I love it

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piefacemate said:

Superb! I'm on my 2nd one myself... couple of months and you'll be wanting more power

aye, quite possibly!

If I can get this business off the ground and start earning and find my way into a position where I can have a second vehicle, then I'll keep it for a good while and do some work on it!

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Fruitcake said:

£300?!

You'll spend almost that insuring it (if not more)!

What you will also need to spend money on is a steering wheel.

That one is

Other than that, it's a bloody bargain.

I had £300 in the Volvo and the guy did a straight swap!

The steering wheel isn't the best, but it does for now

Insurance was £380 Fully comp from NFU mutual - 10k per year, only £60 more than the S40!

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Curry Burns said:

NFU Mutual is pretty damn good eh?

I've been a named driver on several policies with them with my dad as main driver. No NCB on paper, but when I took insurance out with them on the Volvo, due to the clean record, they gave me the equivilent of 5 years NCB protected

They've always done us a good rate

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ScottishSamurai said:

Curry Burns said:

NFU Mutual is pretty damn good eh?

I assume you work for them Ian? You bring them down a notch if so


What is gonig on with that steering wheel though?!

no idea, but it does its job for now

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jimmyjam said:

Looks like a nice surprise deal.
What is the Swapz website address, never heard of it, sounds interesting!

I think it's swapz.co.uk

Do beware though, there's a lot of stters on there

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First few days I had it, it got ragged about mercilessly and returned 26mpg

I can get it lower, but 26 isn't bad for mainly town driving..better than the Volvo already!

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soad said:

Can't beat a bit of topless motoring

Lovely day today.

It's been a lovely couple of days for it. Saturday I had the roof off, basking in glorious sunshine and drove through the countryside to Ilkley for a massage then back again!

Amazing!

Not planning on going anywhere today like, waiting for the CAS O ring to arrive

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Right, just changed the CAS O ring so hopefully no more drippy drippy

And just to add:



I fking love this car

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Dr G said:

300 quid? You jammy oik!

I know!

I gotta say thanks to my mates Barry and Stu

Barry for selling me the lolvo cheap and Stu for telling me to ring him

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v15ben said:

Looks awesome mate! I had an extended drive in Matt's in December and it was great fun getting it sideways on the slippy roads!

Mate they're soooo much fun that it's not comprehensible

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v15ben said:

A lot cheaper to run and repair than my bloody car as well
I did consider getting a cheap Mark 1 MX5 last winter - will do so one day!

Join us on the....well, slightly camp side

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v15ben said:

If I wasn't going overseas (fingers crossed!) I probably would mate

oh aye, what's this now dude?

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Defcon5 said:

Bargain! Id certainly take a gamble on one at that price

Did a straight swap on an S40 which I only had £300 invested

Couldn't resist

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Digby said:

Nice

I picked up a cheap one for some summer fun and have never looked back.

Was warm here tonight, so I have just been out for an hour and a half with the roof off, windows down, just got in and I am buzzin'.


Mine, currently waiting to be dropped, as I can fit ornaments in the arches..

CLICK FOR BIGGER PIC.

That's roughtly the look I'm after, but lower and maybe with arch extensions

ETA:

Sweet ride

Edited by Jag-D on Thursday 20th May 23:50

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The RBs are bloody lovely rims, definitely my first choice

I'm not going full wide arch, just lip extensions I think...ideally a lazy eye kit with twin lamps too

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Quick update:

Well it would seem my little 5 has had a couple of modifications, the one I'm most pleased with is the relocation of the foglamp which has been moved to the reverse light

Other than that, my mate Jason and I changed the cam angle sensor O ring the other day, bit of a fiddly job, but the old one was royally bksed so it was for the best.

Now it seems I have another oil leak somewhere so it's going on the ramps tomorrow so we can have a scoot about and see if we can locate the little bugger.

Work on fixing and improving will be on going

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soad said:

Good good, keeping on top of things.

Had any luck with the ladies in a new motor and that?!

I have had a lot of looks like

I seem to get asians and women trying to race me everywhere which is amusing.

Had a group of asian lads chatting to me at the lights the other week, had the roof down around midnight (lovely night) and they said "You had a good day mate? Aren't you cold"


Got plenty of work I wanna do on it and I'm really happy to do it so should be a few updates

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Couple more photos: