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Hi Guys,
Thought I would start a build thread for the new toy she's not the prettiest thing but I got her for the princely sum of $250 and 4 cases of beer and much to my girlfriends dismay, i proudly brought home the above car.
The best surprise was it has had a manual conversion, sunroof, power mirrors, power seats with memory, cruise control. Wow its pretty fast too!!!!!!!!!
Finally I have a 5cyl to play around with even if its the 10v version who cares its a 5 pot!!!!!
Problems so far
1) Surging under power
2) Boost spikes
3) Boost leaks
4) headliner dropping
5) Front shocks (^*^%&
6) Paint average
Awesome things
1) Manual
2) All power things work mirrors, windows sunroof, seats, steering
3) Old School Laggy turbo goodness
4) Hilarious
Today Andy and wayne at baytech automotive solved the surging problem. Who ever did the manual conversion rigged up the throttle cable by zip tying it to the brake master cylinder. Hence when you accelerate the motor moves causing a double acceleration (surging effect). Courtesy of an audi 80 donor car they whipped up this solution
I also started stripping the interior for a good clean up heres a little guide
Front seats
1) Remove end caps from the seat rails
2) Un bolt the 2 bolts holding your seat to the floor from the front
3) Tilt back unplug wiring loom
4) slide out backwards
Easy!!!!!!
Rear seats
1) Remove head rests, this done by removing the holding clip under the headrest in the middle of the plastic trim
2) Open the boot push in the 4 large plastic tabs holding the head rests in place
3) Remove the bottom session couple clips
4) Remove the seat back by lifting the whole piece up
Easy!!!
Head Lining
1) Remove all the hand grabs couple screws in each
2) Remove pillar trims, plastic clips hold them in, a bit of gentle force should unclip everything
3) rip off your sagging roof lining in a fit of rage to reveal lots of horrible orange glue stuff (don't do this it makes a hell of a mess)
4) The roof lining in essentially just cardboard so be careful not to rip when your trying to get it unglued from the roof, I would recommend using a paint scraper or large chisel to do this. Work slowly until you free all the glued areas, around the sunroof there are clips that hold the roof lining on with a small screw driver you can un clip these with mild force. Boom should drop out now, because you have already taken your seats out with wiggling you should be able to get it out of the back door.
Not Easy!!!
Rear tail light
Well thats a sad looking site a cracked rear light, how did that happen? Who backed into a trailer because the 200 doesn't have reverse sensors?
1) Remove covers
2) Use an 8 mm spanner to undo the light cover
3) Un clip the bulb holder, now with a screw driver gently push between the light and the car body as the light is held in with a type of plastic seal/sticky stuff
4) clean up new light cover reapply sealant, repeat steps 2 and 1 in reserve and finish
Easy!!!!
Thought I would start a build thread for the new toy she's not the prettiest thing but I got her for the princely sum of $250 and 4 cases of beer and much to my girlfriends dismay, i proudly brought home the above car.
The best surprise was it has had a manual conversion, sunroof, power mirrors, power seats with memory, cruise control. Wow its pretty fast too!!!!!!!!!
Finally I have a 5cyl to play around with even if its the 10v version who cares its a 5 pot!!!!!
Problems so far
1) Surging under power
2) Boost spikes
3) Boost leaks
4) headliner dropping
5) Front shocks (^*^%&
6) Paint average
Awesome things
1) Manual
2) All power things work mirrors, windows sunroof, seats, steering
3) Old School Laggy turbo goodness
4) Hilarious
Today Andy and wayne at baytech automotive solved the surging problem. Who ever did the manual conversion rigged up the throttle cable by zip tying it to the brake master cylinder. Hence when you accelerate the motor moves causing a double acceleration (surging effect). Courtesy of an audi 80 donor car they whipped up this solution
I also started stripping the interior for a good clean up heres a little guide
Front seats
1) Remove end caps from the seat rails
2) Un bolt the 2 bolts holding your seat to the floor from the front
3) Tilt back unplug wiring loom
4) slide out backwards
Easy!!!!!!
Rear seats
1) Remove head rests, this done by removing the holding clip under the headrest in the middle of the plastic trim
2) Open the boot push in the 4 large plastic tabs holding the head rests in place
3) Remove the bottom session couple clips
4) Remove the seat back by lifting the whole piece up
Easy!!!
Head Lining
1) Remove all the hand grabs couple screws in each
2) Remove pillar trims, plastic clips hold them in, a bit of gentle force should unclip everything
3) rip off your sagging roof lining in a fit of rage to reveal lots of horrible orange glue stuff (don't do this it makes a hell of a mess)
4) The roof lining in essentially just cardboard so be careful not to rip when your trying to get it unglued from the roof, I would recommend using a paint scraper or large chisel to do this. Work slowly until you free all the glued areas, around the sunroof there are clips that hold the roof lining on with a small screw driver you can un clip these with mild force. Boom should drop out now, because you have already taken your seats out with wiggling you should be able to get it out of the back door.
Not Easy!!!
Rear tail light
Well thats a sad looking site a cracked rear light, how did that happen? Who backed into a trailer because the 200 doesn't have reverse sensors?
1) Remove covers
2) Use an 8 mm spanner to undo the light cover
3) Un clip the bulb holder, now with a screw driver gently push between the light and the car body as the light is held in with a type of plastic seal/sticky stuff
4) clean up new light cover reapply sealant, repeat steps 2 and 1 in reserve and finish
Easy!!!!
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