Project EA Aka Sooty

[Charllie]

Fair enough, how old are you?

The shape just does nothing for me. They've never had class about them, whereas something as;



The renault 5, can be known as a big chav car. But the history and oldschool style about them makes them such wicked cars when done right

[EACruise]

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Love this car but i wouldn't want to ruin a classic plus the only one i would want would be to much on insurance.

As mine is insurance group 5 most are in this class or below are 1.2 little cars. I've got a 2.0 HDI Turbo running 136.4BHP with 245F/T. Thats 50% more than standard, plus i can go to luxembourg and back in little over a tank (750 miles)

I love 306's had 3 and looking at getting another. A lot of car for little money plus what i like about them is theres plenty of mods for them but at the same time you don't see many at shows unlike most of the vw scene. but what can i say i got the pug bug lol

[Mini 360]

Very nice! Don't like Pugs one little bit but loving what you have done with the rear lights inspired by Lambos of today. Great idea and well executed!

[EACruise]

Thanks mate

[EACruise]

Bit of a update.....

So over the next few months this is what I'm going to be doing......... Supra dash and door cards, digital dials, porsche hardback seats and a few other bits. The supra dash is a few inches to long but after some cutting and bonding should be able to get it to fit pretty good. The dash itself is a old style but with some smoothing and some new equipment in there should bring it up to date. Depending on money to finish it i want it finished by HOW but if not BHP or Mod nats. Doubt ill be able to afford to retrim the seats until just before mod nats anyways

[Randomofodication]

tailights look like the new lambos almost haha, looks sweet tho. i love the one off stuff

[EACruise]

the indicators where based on the lamb's taillights. The body shop actual had the lamp "arrow" from inside the taillight. had about 200 of them sent by lamb to tint them. was going to try get a set for my car but think the led work better anyways

[EACruise]

UPDATE!!!!!

Last weekend me and luke went round pugmes house. was meant to be a audio weekend i think but we ended up wiring up pugme's dials and doing pugme's splitter and cutting my dashes apart.


Firstly me and luke removed the inner dash which is basically the heater funnels and top mounting points. Consisted in using a screw driver and a hammer to prise away at the melted tabs.



Then we cut away all the bottom half of the outer dash and kept the sides
After that we decided that we didn't need the sides as I'm going to use the supra dash sides so chopped them away and also lost a lot more of the dash so it is basically just the top section (everything from the top glove box across was chopped out but forgot to take a picture.



We then stripped the supra dash of what wasn't needed, glove box,speakers and a few other things

After that we cut the top of the dash from were the speaker holes are all the way following the line across but kepted the side. Once that was done we cut straight down the dash around the middle of the glove box then cut again 70mm over. After we had taken the 70mm width of the dash out we then screwed it togeth for a temp fix just to get idea if any more needs to be cut out. I didn't take any more pictures but will take some of what we were left with when i get the chance.

I just put the dash in the 306 quickly and looks like it has to come out quite far to work but not to far as i wouldn't be able select any gears. It was hard to tell but looked like the dash has either got a lot more to cut out or a very slight bit of the side has to be cut out then the sides bend inwards for it to fit.... Really i need one or two people to hold it in place so i can take some photos and decide where to go from now....


Big thanks to pug me and luke for guiding me where to go, and before luke says he did all the work not once did i say can you do as i can't (like danny ) he picked up the power tool and did most the work by choice.

Had to park on the road to open both doors of my donor car so took a few cheeky shots of the dog leg up

[EACruise]

So this morning (why do we always work on cars when its freezing outside) Pugme came round to give me a hand on where to go next on this. What we did is remove the left section of the supra dash (released its still to long) and concentrated on the main bit of the dash. We put the inner bit of the 306 dash in place as well as the windscreen part of the 306 dash in. After putting the supra dash in we released some bits needed to be chopped off for it to sit far enough back. After about 5 attempts of putting it in cutting a bit more we screwed it one half of it down into the inner dash so it say without holding it down. The right hand side needs to side back a little and the left hand side needs to come out a little but we got it roughly were it needs to be. i can select gears ok although have to be careful not to slam into gear and smack the dash. Only issue i might have is not seeing all of the dials as the dash will cover my view. i could tilt it so i got a better view but that means not being able to select any gears. Also the steering wheel will no doubt hit the dash but with a after market one with a boss it should come out far enough to eliminate that problem.
Next step is to strip the dash of all the foam/material (over a inch thick in some places) and plastic weld all the inner plastic from behind the all the trim around the steering wheel as most of it is broke. Im going to cut all the area by the glove box pout and just have the main bit of the dash and the left side. then pug me and make some wooden curved plates to make up the left cent ion of the dash. Once that is done is the "simple" task of trying to posisiting the right half perfectly and joining it to the back of the 306 part. The mirroring the left side and joining that to the 306 back part. then just have to fill the gap between.

[EACruise]

Bit of a random update of what I've done over the last week or so....

First of the dash.... I removed all the foam and leatherette so it was just the plastic and ended up having the main part of the dash in 3 bits as it was broke under the padding which was holding it together. The main skeleton of the dash which holds all the dash trim and dials etc has snapped in about 5 places aswell so before i do any more i need to plastic weld everything back to where it is then go from there. Below is a pic of how thick the foam was in certain places.



Ive always new my drivers side intercooler pipe was grassed a bit and had oil dripping out every now and then. It was running 15psi still so just left it and drove it round for a year..... So last week i thought id remove the bumper and take off both the intercooler pipes and replace them lucky i did as they were both grassed quite bad and one had a split in it and looked like this.....



While i was replacing these i took the intercooler off and gave it a clean with some brake cleaner. I also gave under the engine a good old clean. I took a photo of it after i put most of the engine degreaser on so it looks a lot cleaner that what it was. Basicly from around the middle to the drivers side was cacked black. I think this might all be from the split intercooler pipe but not 100%. I then pressure washed all the engine. While doing it tho i did get engine de greaser and oil in my eye to mu surprised didn't even sting :S. If the car was on a 4 poster ramp i would of gave it a proper clean but to be honest i did a naff job of it.



I brought these off Gunge. Brake fluid steering cover, Battery cover (with OEM cover), Fuse box cover, ECU cover (with OEM cover) and power steering cover. All metal in orange which i will be getting done no doubt white along with my engine cover over the next few months. I was after a battery cover for agesssss so had to buy these. Buy after i got them released the ecu and battery cover will no fit as i haven't got a ecu or battery box so i will have to invest in one of them for them to fit.


Finally as today was a nice day i spent 3 hours cleaning my car. Gave it a good clean, polished it, polished the windows in and out, gave it a hoover and got rid of all the crap, even cleaned all the shuts and some engine bits. I will give the wheel a proper clean another day. take them off and clean the whole wheel aswell as wax and seal them. Forgot to clean the exhaust tho and haven't got any KFC wipes for them (swear by them) Rear bumper is scratched where it was mega windy just before christmas i think and a bin fell on it, also front bumper has a big chip in the side from where someone/thing hit it on the drive christmas eve/christmas day and also is scratched from where it fell off in the wind when i was removing the bumper and had to sign for a parcel for across the road tut. Sometime during this year will be grill headlines and maybe both bumpers resprayed but not for the time being.

[EACruise]

Right big update time!!!!!!

I ended up buying a gti6 ex show car for its interior. I took everything out apart from the dash and headlining out and swapped it all over with sootys interior. Took ages to do as there was so much wiring with all the audio so all the carpets and padding had to be taking out and all the wire's routed properly. Took me 5 days of working 5 hours on the car and 9 hours at work aswell as a few hours sat morning before cleaning it and driving to the cleaned uk meet at ace cafe then onto southend that night. I was shattered but worth it in the end.

Heres a couple of picture of the wiring in the gti6. head unit had a brain aswell so a lot more wiring....



Heres the new interior in sooty although not the easiest interior to take pictures off. The interior will be getting retrimmed and the audio side of it replace for non chrome/flames audio as I'm not a fan at all. Will be changed a bit but the layout will be roughly the same.







Monday after i went to ace cafe with sooty and my gti6 which my mate lea was boring for 2 weeks. If anyones interested in the gti6 its up for sale for £1500 which is a bargin. Got steel wide arches and skirts. Front bumper needs fixing/replacing and pass wing needs painting. more info will be up soon about this




Last friday i went to get my car mot'ed and before that i went to shane's to clean the car. Went to mot station and they drove the car into the workshop. Last year they took it in slow and carefully went round a bit of metal on the floor which the door slides on as it sticks up by around 2 inches. this year it was a different person driving it into the garage and although he didn't do on purpose drove straight in not thinking it would catch on the metal sticking up. my centre exhaust clamp hit the metal which in turn took the exhaust straight off and ending up with my bumper nearly snapping off completely in front of my eyes. The car was no beached so we had to jack it up with a air jack and pull the exhaust out and then drive it in. They attached the exhaust back on with a new clamp and cable tied the pass side top mount hole so the bumper was secured. The bumper wasn't as bad as i though it was i don't think. Theres a small hole where the exhaust bracket went through the bumper and on the underneath theres a 2inch crack left of the exhaust cutout. Rest of it just looks like the paint has cracked rather than the bumper itself. Need to strip all the paint off and no doubt a small coat of filler aswell. Every led will need to be replaced tho so 108 new one to be wired in. To make my bad day even worse it failed the mot on a track rod end and both anti roll bar drop links which where new a year ago aswell as a fuel leak. The next day i was going Belgium for HOW so i ended up leaving sooty in the UK and jumping in shane's astra instead.

The chunks of paint missing was me picking it off to see if it was just the paint cracked or the bumper aswell but looks just paint.




Heres the bit of metal that is sticking out which the exhaust caught on. (apparently it doesn't stick up and is flat.......)



Getting the car fixed and mot'ed at a different station even tho i will have to pay again. Waiting on quote for bumper fix/repaint which i know won't be cheap due to the lights. then handing over to the garage which won't be easy getting them to pay 100% of it. Hoping the bumper will be done for BHP on 7th may.

Today my battery box turned up. As i posted a while back i brought some engine covers which are orange atm. The battery and ecu lids wouldn't fit and theres nothing for it to clip onto so i sore this on ebay and brought it. Hopeing its a easy mod to do should be ok then i can start putting all the covers on and deciding what colour to do. Thinking white but also thinking carbon or airbrushing of some sort.

[Jorge]

Looking great. I'm not sold on the interior but I think better pictures are required. Is it 4x buckets?

Sucks about that rear bumper. I'd have thrown a fit at the MOT garage.

[EACruise]

yes 4 bucket seats. between rear seats is a power cap and 6 dvd/cd changer then each rear door card sweeps round with a 6x9. Im not a fan at all of the audio. but as i will be getting air in mayish time i will redesign the boot and the interior.... The seat layout will be the same but everything will change for the better

[daniel_lucian]

I like the interior a lot! Why didn't you drive the car inside yourself for the MOT test?

[EACruise]

i wish i did now! didn't think that would happen. all starting to get sorted now tho