Sipo's 16v GTE

[Sipo]

Hey lads, nothing major going on with my GTE, decided to get the car sprayed etc for the summer (I need it in my life! lol) hence the wide arch kit isnt going on until the winter. However there are a few bits going on, ie i just replaced the rear discs, shoes and pads and will be changing the O/S CV joint tomorrow and thought i would log it on here so everyone can see the progress.



Got the car up on the ramp and removed the wheels ready to change the rear brakes



N/S rear stripped - didnt realise the handbrake operated shoes inside the drum, spent ages trying to get the rear brum off until my dad pointed it out lol. Was a bit of a pain trying to get the ABS ring off of the old discs and i didnt think to order new bearings, so had to get those buggers out and the retainers for them which was even more fiddely but they came out after a little perservation.





Some snaps of the finished product, new discs spangling behind the wheels looks so much better and when i get the money together i will be replacing the fronts with drilled and vented. (Yes i know the calipers need repainting )


Also, while the car was up in the air it was nice to see the lowering springs and shocks werent micky mouse, and the exhaust system was all Longlife too. Seeing as i only paid £350 for the car i was expecting the majority of it to be utter shite, so was pleasantly surprised.





Also, while im putting up some pics, here is my dads toy that i spent the last years of my school life building with him - tis a beast




Will give a little write up on how i get on with the CV joint tomorrow and also how the restoration of the bodywork goes.

Thanks for viewing!

[Brett]

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yopu only paid £350 for your valver? lucky coont!

get some underseal on those rear chassis legs...

[Jon S]

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didnt know u had a valver. also i think its cool you have that car at 19.

[Sipo]

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yopu only paid £350 for your valver? lucky coont!

get some underseal on those rear chassis legs...

Well, it isnt the lowest of mileage cars and also needs some bodywork attention on both sides (1 of which classed the car as a write off) but its still in pretty good nick and goes like a fking rocket. I dont know how fast 16v GTE's go in general, but the cams, ehxhaust sytem and air intake seem to make a lot of differance. I have raced 3 series BMW's, civic type R's and a new 3.2 V6 vauxhall and left them all pissed right off. I literally love it and cant get enough of driving it, but at 145,000 miles it will probably need a rebuild while its off the road in the winter.

Anyhoo, where do i need undersealer exactly?

[Sipo]

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didnt know u had a valver. also i think its cool you have that car at 19.

Yeh im loving it! You tell the insurance company that you are a contracts manager of a company and they seem to love it. When i was insuring myself as a bog wandard electrician on site, my insurance was only £200 less on a 1.4 seat ibiza!!! Tis ridiculous.

[Sipo]

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OK a little more progress. Turned out the N/S front wheel bearing was knackered and not the CV joint as i thought ... turns out to be the drivers side one creaking now and again but was the wheel bearing on the passenger side whining. Anyways, got it all apart and so on, sent the strut to an engineers to have the bearing pressed out and another one put in. Anyways, the strut comes back but the hub was given to me seperately, they said they wouldnt press it in as it was knackered. Cheers then!! Could have fecking ordered a new one in and got it all sorted tbh, but ended up having to put it all back together as it was. This means im going to have to buy another hub and another fecking set of bearings again and get it all pressed again. Woohoo!!

Anyways heres some snaps.


The cv boots were knackered also so replaced them while it was all apart.


Spangly ones:


Also noticed rubbing marks on the edge of my gearbox from the wheel. The car is only currently running on 15" wheels but i still have my 17" ones to put onto this as were on my lookalike. I can see this causing problems


But there ya go, i will put them on once they have been refurbished and see what they are like. If they are a bitch i will have to sell them.

Also made some progress on the bodywork yesterday (And a few steps backword as you will see) 1st of all i made a start on the fking great gouge down the passener rear wing. Doesnt look to bad in the pics acctually, but it was pretty nasty.


Then i made a start with the passenger wing and investigating just how bad the smash in the ass end really was. This may cause some problems as the boot doesnt line up at the mo and after a little look its apparent they have wrapped a chain or something through the boot and pulled it out via a tree! Its pretty "Kinky" back there so i may get my Dad to weld some form of strengthening accross the back areas. Its all extra weight i dont want though



Once it all gets flattened back to what it should be, i will put some pics up of how the fillerwork comes out.

Thanks for viewing!

[CraigGreen]

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Top work fella. £350 is a bargain. My last one cost £350 aswell. KONI's a bonus.

Get it ready for PV for gawds sake.!!

[Sipo]

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Get it ready for PV for gawds sake.!!

I'll try

Cash has gone a little hard lately so no major works happening. A nice £60 fine courtesy of my Seat Ibiza running out of tax without me knowing and a steep phone bill too. However, on a bonus side I was given a GTE rear bumper, front bumper, passenger wing mirror and some odds and sods. My uncle also has the digi dash and a few under bonnet sensors that i may need at a later date which is pretty cool.

Last night was meelow on the "Car graft" side of things, got the washer jets smoothed over on the front bumper and that was pretty much it. Will get some more pics up on Sunday, when i will be straightening out the boot (Hopefully) and also filling the rather large hole that i founf in the seals:


Thx for viewing, will keep updating.

[Sipo]

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Ok just to update a little - finally sold the Seat Ibiza. Lost a fking lot of money seeing as i bought it for a runaround. Sold it for £375 (- the £60 fine and £10 to garage it and £20 taking my mates for a beer) basically leaves me with £280. Seeing as i bought the car for £700 this is a bit of a stinger! Sht happens though and i had to take what he was offering hense this is being put straight to one side and going towards my respray. When the final touches get done i will post it all up and obviously how the paint work comes out

Looking to have it all done and sprayed 3 weeks max.

[ehoulton]

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Some good work being done Sipo. You always loose money whenever you sell a car.. I lost loads on my ex Nova.. Btw, what cams are you running if you don't mind me asking you? Those are the next on my list...

[Tom]

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Good work there matey,

Odd that your getting rubbing on the gearbox tho

[Sipo]

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Some good work being done Sipo. You always loose money whenever you sell a car.. I lost loads on my ex Nova.. Btw, what cams are you running if you don't mind me asking you? Those are the next on my list...

Not too sure mate, i was told it was cammed, but it may have been said just to persuade me more to buy it. However it does have a lumpy idle and is pretty quick. Had another race with the new 3.2l V6 vectra earlier who was pissed off that he had to move over for me to go past - I swear having a long strip of dual carriageways near me will cost my license ... .When I get some time kicking about and the motivation i may try to have a look to see if they are uprated. My garage is a 5 - 10 min drive from my house tho and a lot of the time i cant be bothered

Also, Tom, after i posted that i realised that it was more than likely the previous 16" wheels that caused that rubbing. Even so - it does seem a little odd tbh.

[Tom]

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Very odd, as I have no probs with having 17s on mine.

[Sipo]

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Just another small update, the rust on my passenger side seal was acctually really bad, so the majority of the seal is being replaced. Will post pics of how it looks when i get the chance

[richie00boy]

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That's quick. My 8V can see off 2.5 V6 Vectra's (not seen a 2.6 one yet).

Have you checked the offset of your wheel. Maybe wrong offset caused the rubbing. Althought I thought the common lower offset numbers caused outside edge rubbing not inside rubbing.