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stantonio
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Registered: 24th Oct 08
Location: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
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26th Apr 10 at 08:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
needs to be slammed on its arse mate for defo!!!!
Whittie
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Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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26th Apr 10 at 11:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No offence but I think these cars are a pile of wank, however I like yours, you've made it look pretty decent
mike56gte
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Location: Fife, scotland Drives: Audi S3
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26th Apr 10 at 11:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
am really liking this build thread didnt think i would actualy looks really nice. will be good to see it sitting a bit lower. think it would look better without the rub strips on the door. nice work

[Edited on 26-04-2010 by mike56gte]
daymoon
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Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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26th Apr 10 at 14:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thanks

as soon as side skirts are fitted rub strips are going, new suspension should go in this week as long as susension fits.
daymoon
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5th May 10 at 10:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Some bad news: suspension that arrived was for new shape swift, contacted P1CK4D, few days later he informed me that GAZ can't make coilovers for my car....

GUTTED! had to sent them back and waiting to get my money back now...

Some better news:

Picked this up:


Engine, gearbox, driveshafts, ecu, alot of wires...

Got this from machine mart



With help of sisters bf got it on:


i reckon he will be helping me alot during this build

car loom, i think i wont need any of this



engine loom:
got another one coming, i hope in better shape..





Engine got new water pump and clutch, looks like new cambelt but its gonna be replaced.

Ordered dizzy cap and rotor today, should have head off next week.

Also waiting for a second hand rad to come ( new one is £180), full gear linkage and accelerator cable.

Will take a trip to scrappy to get some engine mounts ( got all engine brackets).

[Edited on 05-05-2010 by daymoon]
mike56gte
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Location: Fife, scotland Drives: Audi S3
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5th May 10 at 15:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
is that the gti engine?
FAZ
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5th May 10 at 16:38   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
what you doing about going lower? custom? or just not bother?
daymoon
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5th May 10 at 19:20   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mike56gte
is that the gti engine?


yup GTI lup 1298cc cast aluminium block, really light. 100bhp stock

as for lowering i will wait to for next year and get coilovers from australia i think

[Edited on 05-05-2010 by daymoon]
mike56gte
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5th May 10 at 23:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by daymoon
quote:
Originally posted by mike56gte
is that the gti engine?


yup GTI lup 1298cc cast aluminium block, really light. 100bhp stock

as for lowering i will wait to for next year and get coilovers from australia i think

[Edited on 05-05-2010 by daymoon]


100bhp in a small car like that should be pretty nippy!
daymoon
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7th May 10 at 08:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
haha if and when i get it running!

got new wiring loom and its wrong, guy being a dick and not taking it back aswell...

after reading about and loads of head scratching it looks like i need to use some of that wiring i thought i didn't need..

biggest problem i seem to have now is finding a plug for coil, when i done that should be relatively easy with wiring.
daymoon
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8th May 10 at 08:26   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Done some work on wiring today by identifying plugs and now know where all plugs go under bonnet.

will have to take the dash to change dash loom, but shouldnt be too hard.

can't wait to get started with this! one more week of uni and..... can get going
daymoon
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11th May 10 at 16:48   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Got head of today





Also degreased the engine abit, also found out that crank and conrods are forged ites
Sly_SRi
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12th May 10 at 10:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I remember reading up about those swift GTi's a while back. You can get some crazy power figures from them and get them to rev to around 9000 rpm!

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Ojc
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12th May 10 at 11:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Swift GTi engine goes into the Nova as well.
mattievRS
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12th May 10 at 22:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just read all of this! Top notch mate! Love it!
daymoon
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13th May 10 at 08:48   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thanks

Spent a bit of money today on parts:

Bought a headgasket set
Spark plugs
alternator belt
ordered timing belt

also got:
Dizzy cap
dizzy rotor
should have head bolts coming in post
radiator
gearlinkage
exhaust(mani and downpipe)
accelerator cable

so that only leaves me having to buy one inner and one outer cv joints, fuel pump and engine mounts!
daymoon
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14th May 10 at 11:04   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Stripped the head as much as I could today... getting a spring compressor on monday, and taking head for a skim as soon as take the valves out



then put thead on block due to lack of storage space



bore:
daymoon
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5th Jun 10 at 14:30   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Little update on what has been happening lately:

Block stripped and taken to machine shop - 0.4mm wear on bores.

ordered 200 quid worth of parts from suzuki - set of new pistons, seals and gaskets.

crank is in good condition and just needs polishing.

ordered new main and big end bearings from UK supplier, rings from US supplier as suzuki wanted 135 for 4 sets of rings, i paid 47 for all rings.

should have pistons on monday, and hopefully block back same day.

all i need to buy now is two cv joints. thats it...
daymoon
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21st Jun 10 at 12:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Got block back from reboring!





While i was at macine shop got flywheel skimmed:



and crank polished



All i am waiting on now is bearings for crank and conrods...

hpefully get them this week.
davieslim
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21st Jun 10 at 13:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
good work with this, i actually enjoy having a look through to see how its going, i owned a swift gti for about 30mins once but it was a good 30mins lol
daymoon
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21st Jun 10 at 13:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Haha! 30 minutes! what happened after that?
davieslim
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21st Jun 10 at 13:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i swopped my mate an old etech metal spoiler for the gti as the windscreen had been smashed by kids all it had was tsw alpines and a peco exhaust but was quick and sounded great but had to drive it home like ace ventura with my head out the drivers window, got it home and desided i didnt want it and dumped it after taking the wheels off
daymoon
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3rd Jul 10 at 23:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Got the bearings!
daymoon
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6th Jul 10 at 19:02   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Wired in the foglighs today, after all those months they have just been sat in the buper doing nothing!



Engine is pretty much back together now, have also booked a week of holidays for August to do the conversion!
Rybo
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6th Jul 10 at 21:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well done, i too like reading this, keep the updates coming

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