Marco's Black Beast aka 'Sooty'



  • Sorry, meant to say in Ireland :)



  • lol it is a great car and truly a beast



  • Thanks Jay

    jayom - I take it some up in antrim, like japfest take 2 in august and the reallymeansounds birthday meet. Will hopefully go to straightliners in enniskillen too if not bishopscourt for some drag racing. If you're ever up here give me a shout!

    XYZ coilovers now fitted, very impressed so far. Ride quality is really quite tame/comfortable on soft. Need to get them setup decently, but it will have to wait for now as I'm changing to 16" rims soon. Could go lower but fat tyre/alloy/ offset combo puts things a bit close for now, plus bottomed out the metal skid plate a few times already!

    Few shots up in Portrush for a day trip:




  • Oh yeah, rock 'n roll :wink: :D



  • So another largish update!



    5 stud conversion!
    PLUS SSR Type C forged rims 16x7" 30offset and nice and light :D I love them! 12.5lbs / 5.67kg

    Hopefully gain some traction with fatter sidewalls.
    Now running the 323f BA v6 slightly larger rotors and the larger pot calipers to match

    Still need to:
    -get tyres, hope they fit the arches with the little bit extra offset
    -replace CV boot demolished
    -bolt up the rest of the 5 stud gear on both sides



  • Very good !
    How's items change for put hub with 5 stud ? I want to do that since a long time.



  • very very nice



  • wow ! thats a light rim.



  • @9bb44d3eec=youdirtyfox:

    wow ! thats a light rim.

    No lighter than my old Lorbers ;)



  • Looking good :D :D



  • looking good marco!, there are some very sexy rotas i like but only available in 5 stud!!. What are you doing with old wheels?
    The rear brakes look larger ? or is it just the pic?.
    Think you should change your username to the mad scientist !. :D



  • Old wheels are on ebay now Garfy. Just the pic unfortunately! Mx3 calipers in the same position.

    lol at the username idea…

    So this project lives on for now. I had started transferring things out of this car - carpc, coilovers, 5stud, sub, sub wiring etc etc so had to put it all back in after finding out my new purchase was scrap.

    Finally the SSR Type Cs are fitted. I need to roll my arches a little, I had to camber out the rear to tuck the tyres under as it is. Some pics from Japfest:






  • would you put your car on my stand at heatwave? 21st of this month in swords



  • Thats looking great Marco.

    Hope ya take up Rob's offer, I'd love to see this in the metal.

    Btw, any word on what you're doing with the other one?



  • Ah bugger! It would be that date wouldn't it! I'm on a list to go to reallymeansounds.com 10th birthday that day… I would have happily done so. Slightly tempted to defect but RMS looks to be a good one :?



  • ah go on man it'll be a bit of fun! plus i could get you a nice proper feature



  • I'd love to Robbie but I'm actually too poor to drive that far atm. Seriously brrrroke. Have a great day though mate, I'll have to come down again soon. Anything else coming up?



  • Doing a bit of rust attacking. I hate the stuff so much. Came out ok, paint match could be better, and so could my blending, but it beats bubbly rust :)

    Before:

    AfteR:

    Before:

    After:



  • looking good man.

    how is it faring out with the turbo setup? any annoying things/fuel consumption?

    oh what are you doing about the other one?



  • Looking good. Lucky for DIY repairs that the black isn't a metallic & has no lacquer!

    Did you rattlecan it?


 

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