Project EA Aka Sooty

[EACruise]

As i posted before my rear bumper was damaged by the mot station. 2 months later its finally getting sorted. bumper was cracked in 2 places and all 108 L.E.D's are being replace. Same design as last time but the the very inner line each side will become a fog light to make it legal in the future i was going to get the front resprayed but as its already at L.A.Paintworks i decided to get it done now. This consists off front bumper, headlights, grill, scuttle panel, wiper arms aswell as all the wholes in the slam panel which wasn't being used smoothed over and painted. Also got my 5 gallon air tank painted white ready for when i get air in a week or 2's time. The rear 1/4 was getting painted to as there was some damage there.










Also as i got a fuel leak and the front end was in bits i decided to get engine degreaser and coat the engine with it then jet wash it down. As this was at the body shop i used there airline to blow all the water sitting in all the little places in the block. as you can see below there was a lot of buildup of fuel/oil there. Least now it makes it a lot easier to find the leak. Im thinking its the high pressure fuel pump or a t piece just above it although not 100% yet.


heres 2 rolling shots when we were convoying to HOW - Belgium 2010

[EACruise]

small update nothing special tho....
Got car back for modified nationals looking sweet as! Cruise herts did a pacman theme which we came won 2nd best club stand Heres a few photos from there.





Last weekend i went to French car show and was lucky enough to do 2 laps of the track for a parade lap for the 306 stand. Admittedly my car cut out 4 times in the 2 laps haha. I've got a fuel leak so the pressure/lack of fuel when i boot it makes the car cut out. This week sooty is going to a diesel specialist to try and fix it as i can't find the leak tut





Then just a random shot from beds cruise


Car will be going Ciney in Belgium at the weekend then hopefully straight in for air ride. Then its either brand new interior or retrim and slight change to current ready for Mittelhessen tuning show in Germany.

[daniel_lucian]

Looks ace mate! The Pacman theme was sick

Good luck with your plans!

[EACruise]

Little update nothing to special tho.
Ive went to Ciney in Belgium a few weeks back and was lucky enough to get inside again but missed out in the top 15 which i was a bit gutted seen as a standard Citroen 2vc got in top 15 :S Was a amazing weekend tho as always there, such a laugh. and what the lack in nightlife clubbing wise they make up in burnout comp's haha. Scott T was a laugh with his ghost busters water pistol until the locals ended up ripping it out of his hands and breaking it as they had enough of getting wet all the time haha



To Ciney i did 660miles return trip at 52mph with a fuel leak which i was impressed. after that i went to a diesel specialist which i had to wait a week for a appointment. He had a quick look under the bonnet to decide if it had to go on a ramp or not. After revving it a few time we spotted the leak and released it was coming from the fuel rail. Found out that all the nuts were not even tight. (about 6 nuts) also that one of the high pressure fuel pipes was cabled tied on which was meant to be pressured at 2bar. luckily it was a quick and cheap fix and not the high pressure fuel pump which i thought it was. No leak now and dose not cut out when i put my foot to the floor so I'm happy

The other day while i was at Cruise Herts local meet my "friend" kidnapped sooty from my car which i didn't relies till i checked Facebook the other day and found this! A recuse mission is being made to save sooty!


Im still waiting for my sound deadening before i can go in for air. Ive been debating to make a custom interior or just retrim and slightly change the new interior i just got. Saving time and money would be to keep my interior and put the tank under the car as there isn't room anywhere else. As I've gone for the 5 gallon tank instead of the standard 2/3 tank I've just measured it and its to long to fit under the car as it will hit the exhaust and the rear beam mounts. It now looks like new interior so Darren will be happy as he wanted to do it. The question now is as I've got a few big shows do i go with half a interior and air, or stay static and keep my interior until after show season.... On the plus I've found some wheels, just waiting on specs to see if they can make them the spec i want.

[EACruise]

today i split my porsche seats apart. Im wanting to get the backs done in carbon dip and as I'm picking my mate up at the dipping place monday as he's getting loads of bits done to his fiesta i thought why not take my bits down at the same time and get a quote. I originally was going to drop them off to get done but as i want a few other things done id rather do it all at once s it will work out cheaper Heres a few photos of my breaking it down. first seat took about a hour to do, other seat took 10mins. Im pretty sure the drivers one has been apart before as some of the clips are broke and the foam is a little torn on one side.









I decided to clean the car aswell as i might be going Belgium tomorrow or devon for modified mania or neither. its 7:30pm and i still haven't decided haha. As i got pulled at MK cruise last sunday and to a £60 fine for numberplate in the window i decided to put the stick on plate I've had laying around for months on my bonnet. The idea is drive without a bonnet bra so plate is shown then put the bra on at a show/cruise which hides it.




And one of me when police fined me :|

[EACruise]

A few weeks ago i soldered the dash back together as it broke into a few pieces, so a few days ago i set about straightening the places that it broke with some fibreglass. I didn't get to the best starts as i put the dash on the floor then carried the 25Kg tub of resin out of the car and caught the dash braking it into 3 pieces haha. The dash is now in one piece and should be strong enough to manhandle into place haha. one of the joins is quite thin so i might need to strengthen that up a bit. Today before i get to into this i started to test fit it to see if i need to cut any more and if anything was in the way. This was very hard to do with one pair of hands, ended up using some selotape and some car bits to prop it into place. Where i got it seamed to be straightest and centred. There are a few small problems tho. Its hard to tell without a seat but i think i wont be able to see the speedo at all and although i can change gear, into 1st and 3rd i come very close to hitting the dash. If i tiled the dash back more i could see the dial but not be able to change gear. Im thinking of cutting the dash so i sits further back which i can do about 2/3inches before i hit anything, the only thing there is i might lose some of the dome at the back of the dash. Ideally i need a friend to come round give me a few ideas and help me and its to hard by myself lining everything up. Im pretty sure i might have to relocate the ignition barrel. it fits perfectly in the supra hole but means i got to make some kind of casing so it is fix. As for heaters I'm thinking of just having the windscreen blower and thats it. I've already got the back half of the 306 dash in place for that. at the moment making new vents is easy but have the air get to them might be a bit tight. Ive also got to leave enough room for the door cards to fit. Passengers side shouldn't be a issue but to keep the shape of the drivers side might be hard. at the moment there is room without a door card but with a supra one I'm not 100%. Anyways here are a few photos








I did start to fibreglass my headliner as I'm thinking of painting it. Ive done one layer but looking at it today its slightly twisted. it bend back into shape easy but i need to try and straighten it back into shape before putting more layers on.

[Dwob]

you are nuts and i love it! trunk picture?

[EACruise]

not at the moment no as car is in bodyshop getting rear bumper touched up as im going germany at the weekend in it. ill get some tho

[EACruise]

Had a amazing weekend in germany last weekend for Mittelhessen Tuning Show. 1006.9miles by myself there and back and at a pretty good 56.7MPG haha
I had hour and half sleep before leaving 10pm sat night, and drove all the way there and got there about 9:30am in boiling hot weather, so hot in fact that i had a coolant leak. My car overheated without me knowing, lucky someone pointed out a leak coming from my car as i parked up. After popping the bonnet open i realised coolant overflowing and coming from the cap. After waiting for it to cool down i took the cap off and found quite a bit of gunk straight away i thought head gasket. I filled the rad up with water to see if it was leaking from anywhere else and it all seamed fine but after the engine was on for about 30min it started to overflow again. ill get back to the show in a bit but just as i was about to leave i drove about 200meters to the tap to fill 2 bottles up with water, popped the bonnet again to check and the rad cap was off and lucky got caught in the engine bay but the rubber seal was missing. looked everywhere for it but couldn't find it. i put the cap back on but it was so loose it would of came off straight away. 500miles away from home and no breakdown cover aboard, things wernt looking up. After talking to the show organisers one helped me out and put some kitchen roll round the cap and putting shit loads of duct tape to hold it down. I managed to get all the way home trouble free so head gasket must be fine and i must of just blown the seal to the rad cap so a quick easy cheap fix luckily. Another bit of bad news is as it was so frigging hot, as i started to clean my car there just under the headlight on the front bumper it started to sink, by the awards it cracked. But that will get sorted soon when lee is back from holiday at L.A.Paintworks. filler was fine all English summer but that heat was to extreme!
Anyways back to the show. Got there and the section i was in (the top selected car) was amazing, ive been to alot of shows in Belgium and starting to see the same cars all the time, most of the cars where new to me and just wow, attention to detail was so high. After a amazing day there in what seamed close if not higher than 40deg (was sweating in the shade!) it was time for the awards. I dunno how i managed it but i got a trophy for top 10 selected car and apparently i easily got an award.... Out of all the shows ive been in this is the only show i thought id never had a chance to win something, the bar was set so high im just glad my car was a hit there. Anyways heres a few shots of my car there, my trophy and my duct tape haha. Trophy is amazing! 3rd one now and 3/5 of my goal which is to get a trophy in 5 different countries

[EACruise]

on 26th aug, leaving a convoy to a cruise, stop starting down a road going no more than 2mph i stop at a t junction and the women behind decided to use me as a brake, cracks my bumper and of course has no damage to her week old motor :@ trax was a week later and i was in the power and style awards and was debating to go or not... then i came up with a good idea haha. here is the before and after

[forloveandglory]

Brilliant mods.
You'll fix the bumper easily.
I'm sure.
Nice work, nice car.

[EACruise]

well its 21 hours work, every l.e.d. has to be replaced. its not hard just time consuming and not the first time this has happened :P

[EACruise]

Haven't updated for a while but heres a good update
I paid for air in feb on the intension of getting it ready for modified nationals but due to GAZ race season about to start my struts wasn't reading in time. When the struts finally came back i decided to wait for the end of show season as i have to change the interior completely to have air fitted the way i wanted. I dropped sooty off to Havair around 3 weeks ago and went for the stage 2 kit with wireless remote and upgraded the air tank to a 5 gallon tank aswell. not only was they fitting air i also renewed everything else! Reconditioned rear beam which was painted white, reconditions gaz adjustable rear shocks, new rear hubs and wheel bearings, new rear beam mounts and rubbers, new front hubs and wheel bearings, new wishbones, new drop links, new tie rods and ends, new top mounts and also put my strut brace on finally. so everything suspension wise is new

The rear when lowered is about the same hight as before it was on air, before there was only a few mm to spare but as it was solid/seized it didn't rub. the ride hight is around standard hight.
The front when lowered is around a inch and half off the floor only way of getting it lower is getting custom top mounts made up from gaz which i might look at in the future. Then ride hight is about a few mm higher than what it was before i got air.
anyone who's got air, while at ride hight i run 40psi at front and 20psi at rear but rear will go up around 15psi when i have a interior as all im running is a drivers seat atm until pugme builds me this interior

Was snowing during the night so tried to get some good photos before it melted, but alot of the snow had turned to slush and im no decent photographer but here it is also car wasn't cleaned










front hight


rear hight

[EACruise]

Try and keep the thread alive haha.
Gave sooty its first clean off the year which it needed as been driving it alot lately and hasnt been properly washed since rotterdam (apart from when havair did it) found a few scuff tho but cant wait to do more to it and hopefully find some wheels :/

[EACruise]

little/big update
finally got some new wheels. not the $1400 ones without tyres from canada but i got some which normally go for £550+ all day for £325 with good tyres aswell although they will be swapped with the ones i have on sooty now as there 205 not 195. Im not telling anyone what the wheels are yet but to give you a clue there the same size as my currents and there not after market.
Heres a few tease photos on them on and a video of my air haha


Even with air up all the way the jack was about 3/4mm to high to fit so drove onto some plate mats haha



when for a stud conversion as there 100x easier to fit wheels and meant to be safer. i used them to test fit wheels but there in the bag again until i put wheels on proper after refurb/paint


Tyre is on the rear arch so going to put 195 instead of 205 for more stretch just incase i lower on uneven ground and pull out the arch :/


teaser shot


made me laugh haha



front strut


Rear strut fully lowered