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The Flying Moose
Sunday 27th May 2012, 16:59
Yep you guessed it I lasted all of two months without a T5 parked at home... the D5 is still here too however for now at least.

Yesterday took a venture up to see a man about a car owned by a forum user that was owned by another forum user before.

Cameron's old 855 is now with me and will hopefully get the treatment it deserves.

What can I say... a car with plenty of history but in need of some TLC, the bodywork needs attention and since driving it back I have discovered a leak from the gearbox shaft seals which hopefully will be resolved with a fiver of new o-rings. Other than that the car drove beautifully back from morcambe on a 250 miles test trip home if you like and used £50 of juice.

So the plans?

Manual Conversion with M56L short ratio box and 850R Clutch is definately on the cards and some power modifications.

Here she is as I bought it...

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270472.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270471.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270474.jpg

After a day of tweaking, including fitting new rear pads, replacing the comulbas with Nebs, replacing all the tatty engine plastics, giving it a full service, replacing the overly noisy exhaust with a stock one and fitting an RIP kit she has certainly moved on... next gearbox leak was seals arrive.

Oh and it will be getting roof bars too as I dont like the estates without them.

Here she is:

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270478.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270477.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270483.jpg

This is to give you an idea of hopefully what it will look lke (roughly) when finished:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg169/scaled.php?server=169&filename=pict0008medium1pc2.jpg&res=landing

You see secretly the reason for buying was I could bare putting up at tent at York.... or was it arriving in a D5???

daza-b
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:03
Yep you guessed it I lasted all of two months without a T5 parked at home... the D5 is still here too however for now at least.

Yesterday took a venture up to see a man about a car owned by a forum user that was owned by another forum user before.

Cameron's old 855 is now with me and will hopefully get the treatment it deserves.

What can I say... a car with plenty of history but in need of some TLC, the bodywork needs attention and since driving it back I have discovered a leak from the gearbox shaft seals which hopefully will be resolved with a fiver of new o-rings. Other than that the car drove beautifully back from morcambe on a 250 miles test trip home if you like and used £50 of juice.

So the plans?

Manual Conversion with M56L short ratio box and 850R Clutch is definately on the cards and some power modifications.

Here she is as I bought it...

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270472.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270471.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270474.jpg

After a day of tweaking, including fitting new rear pads, replacing the comulbas with Nebs, replacing all the tatty engine plastics, giving it a full service, replacing the overly noisy exhaust with a stock one and fitting an RIP kit she has certainly moved on... next gearbox leak was seals arrive.

Oh and it will be getting roof bars too as I dont like the estates without them.

Here she is:

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270478.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270477.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k549/EMLYNT5/P5270483.jpg

This is to give you an idea of hopefully what it will look lke (roughly) when finished:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg169/scaled.php?server=169&filename=pict0008medium1pc2.jpg&res=landing

You see secretly the reason for buying was I could bare putting up at tent at York.... or was it arriving in a D5???

very very nice!! you wanna bring it back now!! haha
was a pleasure dealing with you buddy and thanks for the long night ;) lmao

hope all goes well with it mate!!

stephenevans99
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:07
Good to see it was spared from breaking and has gone to a good home !!

foammanmark
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:12
This is a happy ending, and it will be great to see it come on.

You guys talk about football last night!?!

claymore
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:14
Swap my roof bars for your blanks :)

Rhys
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:19
Always interesting to see how a car changes when it acquires a new owner :)
It's going to look smart from the pics you've put up, pleased another one isn't going it be broken when there's no need.

daza-b
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:20
This is a happy ending, and it will be great to see it come on.

You guys talk about football last night!?!

you funny enough no we didnt! i think i was too busy thinking.....im ££££ed!! lol

foammanmark
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:36
you funny enough no we didnt! i think i was too busy thinking.....im ££££ed!! lol

What, nothing to do with Rovers going down then?

V70 Graham
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:36
.....after a day of tweaking, including fitting new rear pads, replacing the comulbas with Nebs, replacing all the tatty engine plastics, giving it a full service, replacing the overly noisy exhaust with a stock one and fitting an RIP kit she has certainly moved on.....



You did all that in a day.....makes me tired just thinking about it !

Cracking job so far, will look excellent if it resembles your pic, following with interest.

T5RPete
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:50
Very nice mate. Sorry I couldn't come with!

I look forward to seeing it in the flesh!

LiamT4
Sunday 27th May 2012, 17:57
Looks excellent with the nebs on.

Thats a lot of work you've done on it already, especially in this heat.

The Flying Moose
Sunday 27th May 2012, 18:19
Swap my roof bars for your blanks :)

Can do colin... are you going to York?

The Flying Moose
Sunday 27th May 2012, 18:20
Looks excellent with the nebs on.

Thats a lot of work you've done on it already, especially in this heat.

I cheated I was indoors ;)

claymore
Sunday 27th May 2012, 18:34
Can do colin... are you going to York?
Yep, as long as I don't have any unexpected problems putting the car back together this week.

merc85
Sunday 27th May 2012, 19:13
Thats gonna look sweet buddy

T5frankie
Sunday 27th May 2012, 19:36
well done mate good to se you are 20yrs younger again lol, looking good

Nealevo
Sunday 27th May 2012, 19:36
Looking rather fab there mate, I'm coming up to York next week.... In my Volvo (not a jaguar in sight) so you can talk me through the pitfalls of a manual conversion!!!

antz
Sunday 27th May 2012, 19:47
Looking good mate! On a side note, the Titans that used to be on that car are now sat in my garage waiting for my dad to pull his finger out and get them refurbed :)

Wobbly Dave
Sunday 27th May 2012, 22:52
Good to see in a T5 again - I am sure it'll be lovely when finished

WOODY T5
Sunday 27th May 2012, 23:17
back to the 850 about time to mate looks very nice with them wheels;-)

martybelfastt5
Monday 28th May 2012, 13:40
some work for one day....great to see it got a good home

MoleT-5R
Monday 28th May 2012, 18:00
Great looking project :rolleyes2, will you have it all done for Trax???

t5steve
Monday 28th May 2012, 19:19
nice looking project.................hope it turns out like image.................sweet

The Flying Moose
Monday 28th May 2012, 20:58
well done mate good to se you are 20yrs younger again lol, looking good

Well it was about time... figured it was the sensible stupid car approach!


Looking rather fab there mate, I'm coming up to York next week.... In my Volvo (not a jaguar in sight) so you can talk me through the pitfalls of a manual conversion!!!

Excellent, look forward to it. Are you camping and or racing?


back to the 850 about time to mate looks very nice with them wheels;-)

You said it would happen and it did mate! Silver Bullet Mk2???


Great looking project :rolleyes2, will you have it all done for Trax???

Possibly, as thats september its a reasonable amount of time away. All depends on the D5 and whether I keep it or not. Half tempted to flog and LPG this.

The Flying Moose
Sunday 3rd June 2012, 22:31
Got a nice new Turbo today from Dell Boy... A ported and Polished Post 2000 16T with 3" Angled outlet.

Also found a Rica map in the garage when I got home, popped it in and low and behold she fires up and runs really well.

Extremely tempted however to Invest in a Tim Williams map after experiencing Frankie's today fitted to my car. It was far more aggressive than anything I have ever driven on a 15G and it was blatently obvious that it was custom rather than off the shelf.

Nealevo
Sunday 3rd June 2012, 23:48
Got a nice new Turbo today from Dell Boy... A ported and Polished Post 2000 16T with 3" Angled outlet.

Also found a Rica map in the garage when I got home, popped it in and low and behold she fires up and runs really well.

Go back into your garage a find me a standard grill :-) lol

Jamest5r
Monday 4th June 2012, 00:52
Go back into your garage a find me a standard grill :-) lol


Do you want a standard grill?? got one lying around but missing the slash if its any good to you.

The Flying Moose
Monday 4th June 2012, 12:27
Go back into your garage a find me a standard grill :-) lol

Dont worry Neal... Ill find you one. I know I dont have one in the garage but I know a man who will down the road. It will be Thursday before I can pick it up however.

T5frankie
Monday 4th June 2012, 16:11
Got a nice new Turbo today from Dell Boy... A ported and Polished Post 2000 16T with 3" Angled outlet.

Also found a Rica map in the garage when I got home, popped it in and low and behold she fires up and runs really well.

Extremely tempted however to Invest in a Tim Williams map after experiencing Frankie's today fitted to my car. It was far more aggressive than anything I have ever driven on a 15G and it was blatently obvious that it was custom rather than off the shelf.

you cant copy me emlyn thats cheating lol, so you just have maps lying around your garage you have forgotten about? lol how does the rica compare in yours to my map?

The Flying Moose
Monday 4th June 2012, 16:17
you cant copy me emlyn thats cheating lol, so you just have maps lying around your garage you have forgotten about? lol how does the rica compare in yours to my map?

Mate I havnt a clue of half the stuff in there! Just found a pile of ECU's one with Rica sticker on it and it worked.

As for your map mate, difference is night and day... doesnt compare to Rica in the slightest. Tims maps in a different league.

T5frankie
Monday 4th June 2012, 16:21
Mate I havnt a clue of half the stuff in there! Just found a pile of ECU's one with Rica sticker on it and it worked.

As for your map mate, difference is night and day... doesnt compare to Rica in the slightest. Tims maps in a different league.

i heard that's why i had to have it, still trying to get the right balance on mine with the actuator cos it boosts alot higher in 4th than the 1st 3 gears in 4th its an absolute monster