Mr Hyde Estate, aka The Milf

[dr_jekyll]

Did the usual small cosmetics in the car, standard issue colour coding and a white steering wheel to match in.


Up until this point the car was still running the dw8 which felt suicidal at junctions pulling out.
Good friend managed to source me a complete ph1 dt doner car, this ended up panning out well as i needed the ph1 radiator setup to suit the slam panel.

I'd always been led to believe the dturbo was a straight swap but tbh far from it. Every axillary, cable and pipe was located differently and if i hadnt of had a doner car I'd of soon been up the swany.
Whilst the engine was out the cambelt and clutch was done and de-armoured the pump as it would of been rude not to.

The engine soon went back in but hit a massive bump in the road when it came to starting the car. Id been told the ph2 imobiliser should be fine to run the ph1 engine but it just didn't want to play ball. As a temporary measure i ran the car for a week without the stop solonoid plunger in.

After a week of running solidly and addressing the stop solonoid i had to have an exhaust fabricated. Up until this point I'd been driving to work with nothing more than a downpipe. The p bushes had also decided to given up the ghost so i prepared two spare with new balljoints, partner pbushes and some £3 powerflex evay finds for the front.

Whilst i was fitting these up my mate fabricated the exhaust from some scrap diary pipe i had kicking about as a temporary measure.

Whilst i was up the front end found a patch in the floor that needed addressing


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Pretty much just been daft bits after that. Fitted a set of bassface speakers front and back with some mild mods

Sourced some sideskirts which are due to be painted aswell and a ph1 xsara vts rear beam thats being fitted on the 27/8/20

Quick vans bmx gear shifter knocked up and bucket seats slung in



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