http://www.saxosportsclub.com/ The Saxo Sports Club en-us Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:21:04 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly The Saxo Sports Club News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.saxosportsclub.com/images/logo.gif http://www.saxosportsclub.com/ http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=13.htmlMembership for only £1 per month - Click Here Take out a 2 year membership subscription for just £24 which is only a quid a month - or take out a single year for £15. THIS IS A LIMITED SPECIAL OFFER!!! Trax Show - Click Here Entry ticket plus SSC Club Parking = £15 Hurry, get your tickets by Sunday 2nd August. SSC on Facebook - Click Here The SSC has now entered the world of Facebook To make life a little more interesting, we have added Saxo Sports Club as a group on Facebook! The page gives us the ability to discuss the site, add events, advertise LAM's, add photographs and upload videos! Show Plates - Click Here New in the SSC Online Shop: The plate is designed to give the Club stand a unified look - it will also hide your registration plate from any photographers so it isn't published in magazines or on the internet. Its a standard sized number plate, with reflective background and black lettering / logo. Get yours in time for Trax if you intend to show your car on the stand, or go out on track. Both SSC and C2 Plates are available! Also:The same show plates, but made from vinyl sticker so that you can stick it to the back of your current plate and simply "flip" it over when you want show the Show Plate instead. These come with the option of reflective or standard vinyl, both white & yellow. Regional Meets List - Click Here In an effort to kickstart the Local Area Meets, you can now add yourself to one of the Regional Lists. We will then send you an email to inform you of the Meet details. Your email wont be used for anything else, and we wont send any spam etc just purely info about your chosen LAM.Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (15:21:04)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=12.htmlRight then the full story.. i got my 1st saxo vts in 2005 ripped everything out of it and used it as a track/fast road tin can, in july 2005 somebody killed it, so found this one in swindon for a bargain and really liked it... Did Trax2005 with it as i got it pretty much.. I didnt like the wheels so started the hunt for a better set! not finding anything very appealing.. Finally settled on the Compomotive Evo2's Anyway, bought a few goodies from Campdave and Stewbert and collected at santapod. had a mad few weeks of getting all the new goodies on it... Cobra Imola's: TAZ quickshift: Ashley Exhaust & Decat and heatwrapped BTB manifold: OMP peugeot 205 Rollcage: Also had a viper ind kit but no pics.. ended looking like this... then.... swapped for a 200sx, running 275bhp uber quick uber thirsty. but this is about the saxo... swapped back a few months later tho the saxo in a sorry state.. it had been stripped of all goodies and sat since i left it. It has been raped of all its goodies and was near enough standard!! standard manifold, half an ashley gone, a cat!, no quickshift, no induction kit, , standard seats, and 106gti wheels! Luckily i had kept the Compomotives! i lost interest a lot and the car got very much abused and mistreated. for a while a mix of wheels and very old dodgy suspension and headgasket issues! I gave it a burst of life with a good clean up before kames 06 and risked going up there with serious headgasket issues and standard shocks that had been lowered 80mm 6years before and been hammered to death. with the headgasket the way it was i wasnt expecting to be driving home. Kames went well all bar the ARB popping out on the motorway the day i got back i snuck up to castle coombe for a half hour session with no anti roll bar and headgasket still dying! in V.W conditions. a few weeks later this man came along.. and we put my previous saxo's engine in (which i paid £10 for!!) much quicker, much better etc.. then i had some minor exhaust issues at trax 2007 (it fell off) which i got sorted... then it was time to break up the white a little bit and go back to standard... JJJ's mine finished result it was on dodgy tyres and wheels and not getting a lot of love again, had hardly any interest in it and was tempted to get rid... it sat outside the house for a while with no front number plate or tax due to laziness and i used the van to get around instead of the car. did a fair track days in it, with it being fairly poorly but still running well and bar its lack of grip performing very well. decided to sort a few bits, got some new polybushed wishbones, fixed the ARB for good, attempted some painting inside and got some really tatty seats which lasted less than a week on some very unsafe custom subframes. then i decided to hunt for some goodies and got hold of some reclining but still pretty cool sparco seats... also got some 306gti6 brakes for the front, got my wheels powdercoated in white, new eagle f1s to stop me being lazy with changing half sets of wheels etc, ditched the slaggy steels as they wouldnt fit over the new brakes. I got my hands on an AX rollcage, with some minor fabrication i got so very crude mounts and bolted it in. I went and saw Mr Bunney as he was breaking his VTS and collected: a refurbed beam with new discs, pads and calipers: Quickshift: B&M Gearknob with button: A BTB Manifold: TAZ Carbon Battery Box: Front and Rear Bilstein Sport Shocks: A few more pics of it... a few shots if the cage mounts and fitting... I then picked up a 1.3 Rallye box with a recent rebuild from SAXXXXXOSteve Got another set of Imola's like the ones i had in it ages before, these are the smaller ones tho! much better... New wheel studs arrived: Windows Arrived: and fitted: The rear side windows were custom, they fit on the recess that would normally hold the rubber in.. im impressed with them so far... Next thing was the cage, it hadnt been finished so i decided enough was enough and dug out the welder i bought and attempted to use it!!..with some grinding, home made tube notcher and some patience me and my mate rich (also never welded) produced the following... before: and the action shots.... the welder i got wasnt really man enough and kept playing up so i borrowed a MASSIVE welder, and some knowledge of a another mate. (he did some welding but not all of it!) we put in the harness bar.... Next!! the Headlining came out. Rear Beam was been changed over - this was a bitch, the brake lines were rusted onto the old one so we had to make a new line! we then took the cages B-pillar mounts have been taken out completely, i wasnt happy with them, so we began fabricating new ones this time i left the welding to my mecahnic mate who had returned from Australia for a bit... a bit of cage mount welding with the dodgy old welder; when the fuel tank caught fire mid weld!!!: you can see the hose wedged up under the car... we had to push the car 20ft to get to the hose and jack it up. in this you can see the water filling the car up and squirting through the seams of the car lol. a bad day i concentrated on the wiring and had a tidy up; a few snaps of the car while fitting the cage... The Fibreglass boot fitted: The Cage in place: Had an accident when putting the cage in and cracked the windscreen The "Rudi" Carbon Door cards arrived so i fitted them... The Fibreglass bonnet was fitted: finally got around to fitting my compbrake coilover kit from way back when the group buy went ahead! a few pics; I've ordered some 300lb 8inch springs for them as they are hating the 6inch 200lb ones... a bit of trial and error and we will see... also made some mods to the grill and slam panel.. I didnt get any pictures after i cut the slam panel away, but you get the idea. also sorted the camera mount out just before popping off to brands hatch for the day on Wednesday 28th Jan.. few pics... got asked to retire at 2pm as the car was leaking fuel, since i got back i have ordered the following which should be on when it all arrives, a set of mirrors new fuel tank new wiper motor (mine is screwed, there is loads of play in the arm) braided fuel lines an air filter! some different springs for the coilovers. 300lb 8". ill update this when i get a few bits on!Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (13:03:00)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=11.htmlAs were now being encouraged to blog our projects here goes... A complete recap of my project thread. Car started out like this over 4 1/2 years ago First decision was to either go for the engine first or make the chassis capable of taking the VTS power. I had just sourced a VTS engine with only 56k on it, single plug ecu so was perfect for my car. Even with that temptation i decided the best way to go about things was to prepare the chassis for the new engine first. I set about putting a VTS disk beam on the rear, but then found out it was roggered, so decided to investigate how to refurb it Billies were added all round New drop links and bushes all round Then it would be rude not to install bigger brakes and braided hoses while i was at it! That was stage one complete, I then went to an RR day in November and she did me proud making 83bhp @ fly with 100k on the clock and just induction kit and de-cat! So with the chassis now ready to take the engine over the winter months I decided my time was best spent in the garage totally rebuilding the engine, with a few extra goodies to be added So, I started collecting parts… So now time to start on the engine – its under there, Honest! Started work on the bottom end… A box arrived in the mean time Then fitted the forged pistons…. The finished article Bearings fitted, Bottom end complete Sump fitted New water pump The bottom end was now complete and the next task was to start work on the head..... Stripped it completely and got the skimmed, In the mean time the valves were lapped and new seals all over were fitted. Head fitted to the block Then some nice new cams (708’s) and followers turned up Followers fitted Exhaust cam and cam ladder fitted With all the above now fitted the cambelt, new tensioner and idler were fitted And the timing done on the cams before fitting the covers, Next stage was the cam covers And fitted these With the head now nearing completion baring the inlet I decided to improve the exterior… Firstly got some track wheels And a little photo shoot with Willsy before he got his new wheels, brakes etc I then was in a sporting injury which gave me some much needed time to work on the car As I couldnt move around very much this time was spent sorting out the exterior again, this time de-listing it and took some more scenic pics With the engine nearly complete it was time to turn my attention to the inlet side of things, These turned up on the door step courtesy of GMC (kit no longer made) So went about fitting these…. Matching the inlet manifold to the head (head port / size was not touched) The red area being “dremeled” With this complete the engine was really starting to take shape TB’s put together and linkage made up, Fitted to the engine Now it was time to take my attention to the airbox… Sealed More bits and bobs cleaned up and fitted to the engine… Trumpets and box were now fitted to the engine So with the engine complete it was now time to get the old engine out and see what state the engine bay was in… First task was to lift the 1.4 engine and box out GTF!!!!! My initial plans were to just clean up the bay and then drop the engine in, However the engine bay had taken some obvious stick in the 100k it had covered and wasn’t in Brilliant condition…. So firstly decided to clean the whole bay up and treat the rusty areas! At this point I thought the best idea was just to do the whole bay, So picked up some 2 pack hardcore paint and thinners, hardener etc Engine bay prepped for respray Spraying tent…. Undercoat, And how it turned out... With the engine bay complete it was now time to start moving the engine into the engine bay Started fitted a few bits and bobs… Putting the loom and suspension back on…. Then the engine!! Fitted the KMS Big Brakes back on.. Throttle boddies And Rad plumbed in with 82degree thermostat… Now it was time to start building things back up around the engine, Firstly the slam panel And lights Put in the VTS fuel pump… And trial fitted the twin fans Wiring in the second fan with its own power supply from the fuse box and relay In the mean time made some brackets to secure the oil cooler and thermostat Had this space to fit the oil cooler in… But managed (just) to fit them in, Then had some "fun" putting it the return fuel line, Single line, GTF!!! Go0o0o0o0ood morning Twin lines Strut brace fitting? Nah… So she was then left looking like this… new styled BTB gmc 4-1 manifold Finished the fuel lines up into the pump Powerflex zorst rubbbers for the BTB / custom zorst Style whorage wipers BTB in process of being wrapped Oil Cooler hose'd up Orange 90degree bend for my procomp Pro comp cut and mounted into engine bay - no pics of it actualy mounted... New dials Old dial rapage Dials fitted, Custom first section zorst to join BTB mani and BTB centre and back box sections... And the finished article You wouldnt believe the amount of work that has gone in to make this custom 2.5inch first section up!! Sprayed wiper arms to go with style whorage wipers (inspired by sax-p) Sprayed ariel at the same time... Catch tank ready to be mounted, Cyclones cleaned up, sprayed black, and laquered (excuse spelling) More engine bay work... Pugsport Baffled Sump First start up A couple of pics from when me and Willsy went to get my tyres fitted.... 106 + 8 wheels, 2 people, 4 boxes and 4 tyres :A: Mapping @ GMC - made 139 @ the wheels!! Few final pics First WM sax-p meet... Nurburgring Prep:- Some decent pads My wubbbbbbaaaa to be abused round the ring..... The mansion we stayed at [SIZE="4"][SIZE="5"]Trax Pic's 2007....[/SIZE][/SIZE] On the way down in convoy with the ssc boys, Just about to go out on track with sax-p... Out on track (pics from both sessions) - some 3 wheels action!! Lol And one of my car on the stand And won Best Ssc saxo & C2 on track :A: Now the car was finished i started to iron out the few nigles expected with such an over haul of the car... Raising the oil cooler to allow more airflow through it. If you look closely you can acutaly see the top 4 row are the the only ones that have been getting a decent flow of air through them, Its been raised 7cm, which should sit almost perfectly in the mouth of the vt* front bumper First job - raise the brackets... And give thema quick lick of paint And all fitted back on So went from this... To this.... As i was just about to leave for another Sax-p meet we found the manifold had clearly taking a good beating from 2007's summer track days We repaired it and its now looking all shiney again.... Then wrapped it again.... We noticed the near side top mount had bowed upwards from the track days Nicely flatened I then took the car up to my mate Matts to have the top mounts strengthened Matt also welded up a part of the chassis that needed sorting - cheers again mate! Which i then primered and sprayed mango Finaly sourced a mango fuel cap I then had the car back to get it MOT'd... Sorting out the horn, it had seized due to sitting around for 6months! The standard System going back on Standard vs BTB Last few bits to be done before MOT time, found 1 of my arb plate bolts had snapped off, also found the other side was perfectly ok, but seized in so sorted that as well... Bolt snapped First one coming out Other side Dad working his magic Both new bolts in While the wheel was off got down to cleaning the Rear wheel arches, Before:- After:- And painted in oil/waxy paint Also sorted out the rear towing hook... before:- After:- and New rear wiper blade It was now ready to pass its MOT, so i wrapped it up for the winter untill i got back from uni @ christmas to MOT it! Now..... I cant fit an 'off-the-shelf' strut brace because of the throttle boddies airbox as shown earlier. So my mate Matt suggested making me a CUSTOM strut brace So here's the pics Brackets Sprayed the brace Thursday night And sorted the rest on saturday night untill 12:30 at night to get it ready for Sunday.... Lol Masking Home made tent again The following day (Sunday) i went to a 106owners meet aka "Mini fcs" Another great day out! I then added some carbon and 106 door handles I went to Llandow on the 4th April 2008 with SSC and co, Pic's tell it all really, she went really well - as quick as anyone there on the day So was pleased over all Then me, DannyGti and Dan all braved it in getting home and getting the car's ready for the Rolling road day the following day (5th April) that i had arranged for West Mids on sax-p. I got home at 8:00pm, managed a quick wash, emptied all of the cr*p out of the car, gave her a quick check over under the bonnet and finally came in from outside about 10:30. Grabbed something to eat and hit the pillow ready for an early start @ 6:30 to leave at 6:45. The car went well in comparison to others again It was a great day out for us all (48 of us!) Custom 170lb faulkner springs and group n top mounts fitted 24mm rear ARB New pads and harnesses fitted! My new harnesses (TRS, 4 point, 3inch shoulder straps, 2 inch wait straps with the fancy buckle) - p.s. there not my seats. Catch tank work - I've always thought the catch tank hose (had to stretch it to fit) / fittings might be restricting the engine when breathing (mainly the fittings as they are a fraction of the size of the elbow which comes out of the rocker cover), also coupled with the fact the other breather is blocked (due to tbs) So dad tapped out the tank, And got the bigger fixings (old vs new)... New hose to fit Draining hose now fitted as well, which is now secured but i dont have any pictures of this unfortunately. Group n lower mount pressed in Mallory Park Pictures And a video Here are the pictures from my PFC shoot... I want to give a massive shout out to David who took the pictures and did the write up, i think you'll all agree he did an excellent job!! Heres Davids website, and if you realistically believe you've got a chance of a feature i can put you in touch with him www.davidcorfield.com/ Big shout out to Finning/CAT for use of the location as well For those that havent seen the magazine, its the latest edition - just come out! Top 25 @ FCS 2008 Here's just a couple of pics from Tricky (cheers pal) I was pretty chuffed how it came out, also won £250 for being amazing on Wii bowling Me and bullet having fun in the tunnel@ fcs 2008! Nurburgring 2008 Managed 9 laps this time round without any problems at all, so was very happy all in all Car cleaned before Fancy custom ring sticker Filled up... 45 litre tank, NEIN!! (red light had only just come on) On the way over One of the crew added a sticker.. At the mansion Track pictures Getting the arse end out My 14th lap round the nurburgring (only lap that was timed all weekend) Sam wrote on the track About half of us enjoying Pinoccio's Pizza's Having a play on the Autobarn on the way back Here's Danny enjoying my car on the way to the nurburgring Me and Sam watching close up Again, had an amazing time - would recommend it to anyone!!! Donnington Park 2008 Was a great day out, car went really well all day, definately need to get myself a bigger oil cooler rad though! Pictures... New R888's replacing the a048s Raping a 172... THat was the summer of 2008 just before i left to travel the world for a year... Shes now all covered up on the drive ready for the ring when i get back in the summer of 2009 JoshSaturday, December 06, 2008 (05:52:45)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=9.htmlI am running this Blog to get your views on this subject. While the government is announcing tax cuts to help everyone, they have actually put tax on the motorist!! A 2p duty increase in fuel tax has been introduced in the pre-budget report, which despite being presented as revenue neutral, will mean that fuel prices will rise over the next year and beyond. The move to increase fuel duty by 2p has been introduced to offset the rate cut in VAT from 17.5% to 15%. However, although the VAT holiday will last 13 months, the 2p duty rise is permanent. So, do you think that the government has done the right thing here?Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (19:57:42)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=7.htmlHello. I once wrote a blog about a DJ on BBC Radio 2 by the name of Steve Wright. I don't like him very much. This however has nothing to do with this years Christmas Party. As always, the event takes place in the almost-slap-bang-in-the-middle-of-the-UK City known as Leicester. The venue has been booked and those confirmed with tickets will have access to this information shortly. We still have a small amount of tickets left if you still wish to go so please drop me a PM or email if you fancy meeting up with some fellow members and their guests. Last count over 50 people have confirmed they require tickets. Facebook Group here:Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:59:00)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=6.htmlAfter hearing about this again in the news, i decided that the country is going Politically Correct mad. As he completed a lorry-driving task, he said: Clarkson wrote: This is a hard job and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers, it's a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day. Now to me the reaction by certain people is just way OTT. Its clearly a joke. What do you all think?Sunday, November 09, 2008 (18:22:45)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=4.htmlI no longer like auto motors. the are a pain in the arse to move when locked and in park and its dark out sideThursday, November 06, 2008 (23:13:28)http://www.saxosportsclub.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=3.htmlSo what is a blog and how is it useful for the SSC? Put simply, a Blog is a part of a web site maintained by an individual which often has regular updates of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Its a bit like an online diary, we will soon be changing the Projects forum over to Blogs. Edit: I like the fact that these Blogs can cause a stir between different Clubs / Sites / Forums. All I ask is that when you post your Blog, you are careful not to copy someone else Innovate not Replicate!Sunday, November 02, 2008 (23:29:00)