The white twin turbo

My great aunt had died recently and I was left a sum of money, most of which we spent wiselyish. I did treat my slef though. A fellow forum member on the old XROC site was selling the car that he and some friends built for track days.

£600 bought this 2.9 XR4x4 with TurboTechnics 225BHP conversion. It had Cossy recaros ( + striped out rear ) Spax shox on puma racing springs. Mitsubishi Rally ( Enki ) Alloys and the RS kit. and Ashley exhaust.

I had it transported from Berkshire back to Carlisle. The intention was always to strip it for the engine to use in the Project Sapphire. During the stripdown extensive rust was found in the sills and rear hatch apature so good job realy!!

Eventually plans changed and the engine and virtualy everything else was sold on bar the steering wheel, oil gauge and power cut off.

The black 2.9 Car 7

CRL was an ebay special. I won it for about £250 from memory and it was located in Sterling. We decided to take the train up there and then drive up to Dundee to visit my brother in law.

I don't do public transport and felt ill for most of the journey.. When we got there the vendor met us at the station, a few details changed hands and we were off..

First impressions were not bad, it looked solid enugh, ran very well and drove ok. There was a throb from the transmission at speed though.
I took stock when I got to dundee and found that the front and rear tyres were different sizes. So next day a new pair were on and I was £50 lighter!!!

I also discoverd no Air filter!

We did a few shows over the summer, and did some mileage! She was a good comftble car. She did steam up lots but the 4x4 was fantastic.

At MOT time she failed on corroded floorpans, that took a few days of welding to sort but eventualy she passed :)

But as winter drew in funny noises were comming from the front end on motorways and I eventualy sold it on. The new owner replaced the wheel bearings which fixed that!!!

I did get to see her again when another club member brought her back to collect a turbo kit.

She looks quite good in the photo above and I realy did quite like her.