Mad Maru's N16 E (Daily runner) Project

Well thanks going out to DYP (Steve) for helping out this week after work with getting the N16 stripped down and ready for scrapping. The timescale was short and everything useable needed to be off and we managed it with the help of a few others. The sunroof and motor was removed along with the doors and tailgate, we also found an ingenius was to empty the fuel out of the tank using the washer fluid pump and a little Mcguyver impression by Steve. All went well apart from me getting covered in fuel again what is it with me getting sprayed with petrol???

Looking sorry for itself rear windows all smashed

Today was roof off day and time to get the rear beam off and the exhaust

A convertable now that would be a good idea

Roof off and ready for some fettling

With some help from a forklift we left the car on the drums and took off the remaining useable parts

Ghetto scrappage FTW

Right after a tough decision I scrapped plans to try and get both cars sorted in time for Peterborough & JAE and concentrated on getting work finished on GTT. However the weather and other factors have allowed for a few more things to get sorted on the N16.

With engine out it was time to address a lil bit of rust in the engine bay so out came angle grinder and twisted wire wheel

Bit more to do here

The fiddly bits

Then onto the brakes I bought last year from Edk a bit of TLC was needed & wire brush

Almost done

Ready for some paint

As rain stopped play on GTT we started putting the lump back in after the bay had been sealed & stoneguarded

Suspension on way out

Bit more work needed to clean up this corner before coilovers go on

I may get a few more bits done while waiting to sort GTT but most will get done after JAE including dropping the subframe and painting the lump as the Jenolite on the surface rust didn't quite go to plan and left the lump looking dirty and with white bits. [:(]

Thanks for looking

So a brief update on this car is obviously not destined to be my daily after the SXE entered into my life with its soot powered loveliness. So plans for this car have dramatically changed, I've always wanted a track slag and car to have fun on going round the track so this motor after some changes to the original spec and changes made will hopefully turn into my track toy in the coming months...

So plan is lighten and remove non-essential parts and tweak engine etc and have this as an off the road track only toy watch this space folks.