Hello all,
Thought I'd start a diary for my new purchase to keep track of time and money spent on it, but also as motivation to clean, maintain and improve it if I ever get bored or dissuaded.
It's a 1998 Arctic II with around 66k miles.
Nipped down to Sunderland on Saturday morning and after a look over and a quick run I picked it up for £300.
The pictures above are the condition I got it in, which was pretty good to be honest. There is some rust...
That's the worst thing about the car really, it's a 1.6 16v which runs well, although sometimes idle is a bit lumpy, and I'm convinced the cooling fan isn't working but have yet to check it out.
Short term plans are to get the rust sorted out and a partial respray, replace the discs and pads as the brakes are almost non-existent, and possibly a suspension kit to lower it a touch and improve handling. It has 4 completely different kinds of tyre so that should help too. I'd like to try and squeeze a bit more power out of the engine, but am on a modest budget.
Other than that I may invest in a Genesis cassette until I can afford to put a new head unit it.
A few questions that hopefully someone can answer:
Is the powerbox for this engine still available?
Has anyone ever successfully taken off their door mouldings and re-used them?
can anyone tell me the colour of the car? I got what I thought was the paint code from the chassis plate and got someone to check it but it didn't seem to match up. It said Lightning silver but the paint chip looked different.
Any opinions, ideas and answers to my questions much appreciated.
Thought I'd start a diary for my new purchase to keep track of time and money spent on it, but also as motivation to clean, maintain and improve it if I ever get bored or dissuaded.
It's a 1998 Arctic II with around 66k miles.
Nipped down to Sunderland on Saturday morning and after a look over and a quick run I picked it up for £300.
The pictures above are the condition I got it in, which was pretty good to be honest. There is some rust...
That's the worst thing about the car really, it's a 1.6 16v which runs well, although sometimes idle is a bit lumpy, and I'm convinced the cooling fan isn't working but have yet to check it out.
Short term plans are to get the rust sorted out and a partial respray, replace the discs and pads as the brakes are almost non-existent, and possibly a suspension kit to lower it a touch and improve handling. It has 4 completely different kinds of tyre so that should help too. I'd like to try and squeeze a bit more power out of the engine, but am on a modest budget.
Other than that I may invest in a Genesis cassette until I can afford to put a new head unit it.
A few questions that hopefully someone can answer:
Is the powerbox for this engine still available?
Has anyone ever successfully taken off their door mouldings and re-used them?
can anyone tell me the colour of the car? I got what I thought was the paint code from the chassis plate and got someone to check it but it didn't seem to match up. It said Lightning silver but the paint chip looked different.
Any opinions, ideas and answers to my questions much appreciated.