Cheese Wheels

[regcheeseman]

It started here for £50



All on a tight budget, stripped to shell, rolled, undercoated, lowered -35 on springs at front and -85 on drop plates at rear. Not low enough but usable.
Fitted with 1.6 GTD motor - still waiting for FMIC before it'll run.

Golf bonnet de-rusted, glued back together and fitted on lifters

Donor Golf wings and doors welded waxoyled and fitted

[veedubjoe]

Thats looking good mate. Whats that alloy off - Renault 19? There's so many Renault wheels that look good on VW's.

[regcheeseman]

Deffo Renought wheels, I think 19?

Like a lot of Renought wheels, they are made by Speedline - I paid £15 for 5 of them.

[veedubjoe]

Sweet! I always wanted a set of the 'zender turbo' looking renault wheels and give them a polish! Good work!

[dub-ha8]

Originally Posted by veedubjoe

Sweet! I always wanted a set of the 'zender turbo' looking renault wheels and give them a polish! Good work!

Clio 16v ones, Paul on here is running them

[Central Lee]

engine is looking good reg .... so whens it booked in for the paint then?

lee.

ps- reckon i'm gonna go with my pistons as nothing is coming up, should be ok, as long as they ain't cracked - which will mean the engine being plopped in real soon, i hope

[regcheeseman]

I picked this intercooler up new for £16 :lol: has some dented fins but nothing serious.

It's from a "erm I think a ford" :roll: according to the seller



Made some brackets up either side, had to modify the light bracket on one side...


Fit's in nice and the rad sits back in it's original brackets


- only problem so far is I had to shift the battery backwards 30mm to get a decent space between the rad and the battery for the intercooler tube.

The only further snag I can see is that my hand may have been forced on the choice of fitting the four lamp or two lamp front end, the grill with spots may not fit anymore and even if it did - they will rob airflow.

Oh yeah cut the dent out of the blind bed corner section and then I POR-15'ed the bed (Excellent Stuff)

but have since coated it with industrial floor paint and a layer of sand


Waxoyl'ed all the cavities, especially the rear bulkhead in the vain hope that rusty water will stop dribbling out of the seam!

[veedubjoe]

proper job mate

I'm on the lookout for a V*uxhall Vivaro intercooler, apparently they're a great fit too. I'll just turn my battery sideways. Really need to do it soon get my boost temperatures down.

[Al]

looks like a cossie 4x4 cooler!

[regcheeseman]

looks like a cossie 4x4 cooler!

The plastic housing was date stamped dec 05 - so wouldn't it be something else?

[caddyshack]

Doesnt look too different to a Merc Sprinter cooler...maybe IVECO Van etc?

Not many Turbo 05 Fords on Petrol...Focus maybe?

[Al]

hmmm.....

Maybe its off a Ford turbo diesel then as the all have I/C's take your pick!

[regcheeseman]

It was stckered with a Visteon (?) part number if that means anything? It's pretty large so it maybe from a commercial vehicle???

[Al]

Thats just the manufacturer, they are HUGE and supply a lot of companies their OEM stuff

Whats the part number we may be able to find out for sure

[Al]

Just had a quick search

I would put money that its from the new shape Focus or Connect Duratorq 1.8TDCI

[regcheeseman]

Whatever it's from (I think it fell out of a stock cupboard / production line myself)

I don't think they'll be legitimately coming up on ebay for a while..

[regcheeseman]

She runs!

Changed my sig accordingly.

[veedubjoe]

Well done reg!!

And quality sig!!

[regcheeseman]

Sand coated bed, ran out of satin black so it's patchy, but you get the idea.



Bit warm out yesterday, everyone sat peacefully in their gardens... neighbours were so chuffed with me running an electric sander for 4 hours solid - they were chuffed when the sander died, but less chuffed when I fired up the sprayguns turbine unit about 30 minutes later



Missus came home, "oooh, you've painted it.....

......it actually is starting to look quite good now"

[craigpetty]

thats looking wiked mate! and ur bead looks nice and mint