Miami xud. Phase rust

[martyn92]

Thought I had best start a project thread as its turning into one!

Bought it in July 2011 and it started off as an honest phase 1.
92000 miles
Bosch untouched
Decent bodywork
Plastic trims!
Loads of service history from 1994 upto 2007 65k miles

Paid a massive sum of £250



Then didn't stay standard for long of course!
Obviously turned up the fuel/turbo
'6 brakes/axle
b4 shocks + eibach springs
Every bush/joint replaced
A set of lovely yokohama ad08's

Pretty happy with how it was tbh

Then this year it visited the ring and travelled Europe.



And broke down in the Ring carpark. (proud moment)



And then the brake pad decided it did wasnt happy and tried to depart on the autobahn





Soon fixed

Other than that the car handled the journey no problem

And work began soon after return...







Td04 going on with the wastegate!





Really started enjoying the turbo! 30psi and found it wasnt as laggy as I expected tbh. Still feels lacking somehow though, but think that its down to the exhaust and the excessive blowby!! (silly mistake of not honing the bores and/or changing the rings ) And every oil seal was flooding out oil.

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Had planned to fix that after the MOT. However, that turned out alot worse than expected!

Usual things like lights and excessive exhaust noise. Oh and rust. Alot of it! Only failed on this small patch on the chassis rail



Which is always half the story...





Just needs finishing off now.
But whilst I was doing that I started investigating...











Had decided that I was going to scrap it at this point. Been to look at a few 306's and no luck. haven't found anything in a month so decided to spend a few hours on it today and see what happens and see if I can love it again.





And this is where im upto at the minute!