New beat owner :)

[Mike_beat]

Nice Fleet!!, your worse than me-apart from mine are all Hondas!

k24 in the escort.....that will be sweet!

[beecee]

Im mostly jealous of your garage space

[Seventynine]

haha well neither the garage above or the bunker are mine unfortunately. that's not to say i don't have my own mancave, and my carpet is blatantly better than either of those 2



(yes the toilet does work)

[Gavin]

man cave with toilet is a must

[Seventynine]

wrote an update to this thread but for some reason it won't let me post it? just testing with a smaller post....

[Seventynine]

OK, let's try again

was using the car frequently until approx 6 months ago when the head gasket went, took it off the road as i was between moving houses and jobs, and now i'm all settled i figured it was about time to recomission it for the summer

current things that need to be done are -
Head gasket
Piston rings
lambda sensor

Things i've wanted to do for a while -
Remove AC
fit coilovers (BC VH series)
new wheels and tyres (Rays TE37 with nankang NS2R)
new seats (Motordrive carbon)
Dye the carpet black
swap the ebay air filter with something a little better
remove stereo, 6 disc, sub, speakers etc
rollcage

so in the garage it went -

[Seventynine]

Interior out



Engine out



tried to dye the carpet in the washing machine but it didn't take, so i'll have to figure out another method! next stages are to strip the engine down, hone the bores and fit new rings. take the head off for that to be skimmed and rebuilt.

[stu g]

I have man-cave envy.

I expect the carpet has some sort of anti-stain on it, which is why the dye won't take. Wouldn't it be better to use the existing carpet as a template and put in a brand-new carpet?

Also what is up with your rear screen?

Stu