'86 Capri Turbo

Very interested!

Epic thread this. Just read it from the very first page. Awesome awesome car, always loved the capri and I'm a big fan of the ca18 engines, having had an S12 and an S13.
Lots of ups and downs you've had and I admire your stick at it mentality. Loved the part of the story surrounding getting it sorted for your wedding, top quality mates right there. 😀

To chip my 2 bobs worth in regarding diffs, welded on a daily is definitely not ideal. My S12 had a welded diff and asides from every slow speed parking manoeuvre being an exercise in clutch destruction, high speeds were fecking frightening, especially in the wet. Definitely worth holding out for an lsd. 👍

Anyways, epic build bud, keep it up. 😀

Thanks mate 👍 this thread's a few years in the making now! You're right about my mates, sterling work they did for me 😊

He means a propshaft loop mate. A welded in hoop that prevents the prop hitting the floor in case of breakage. Deffo worth fitting one if you start chasing the numbers your car is capable of.

Here is the one fitted to mine. After been on board when one fails I wouldn't want to be without one in a modified car. I also have a heavy duty tailshaft (propshaft)

Cheers mate, that clarifies it! I think I'd like to fit one to be honest, I do worry a bit about that; the power delivery is pretty violent so I can only imagine the forces going through the drivetrain..

What's going on them? I just fitted the Rally Design HD ones to mine, with polys in, and looking at the angle that the ARB ends up at with the anti-dive kit, I can see how the bushes would be stressed on a lowered car. Saying that, I can't really work out how anyone could live with a car much lower than mine (-1"F & -1.5"R), as I clang it off all sorts of lumps and bumps as it is. Not a problem you have with the big rear end on yours I suppose?

Or is it the balljoints dying? I'm beginning to think compression struts might firm things up and put less strain on the various bushes up there, and they're not the biggest ballache to fit.

When I got mine I spent an age trying to cure the classic ford wobble-under-breaking thing, as it tried to shake all my fillings out if I used the brakes over 30mph. I changed absolutely everything, and had got to the point of considering buying new alloy hubs, but accidentally cured it by cleaning upi the face of the old hubs on a lathe while fitting decent studs in place of the badly hacked-off ones that the old owner thought were a good idea.

Well - I've just let the MoT and insurance lapse. I'm going to sit on it for a bit, with the plan of bringing it back out next year with an LSD and a prop loop. I might throw some MORE paint over it as well.

I've experimented with:
matt black aerosols = good finish if patient with prep, but porous.
satin black aerosols = similar, slightly more resilient but a nightmare to match
chalk board paint and a roller.. = non porous, but fades within weeks. Also, streaky dodgy finish with the roller! The car is basically grey/white at the moment!

The bodywork is far from concourse...or even staight! So I don't fancy laying some lovely gloss paint on it only for it to highlight all of the imperfections. Realistically, at some point I'll probably have to redo the arches, so an expensive paint job would be pointless. I might just leave it as is, or experiment with something else. I've seen some good Plastidip results.

Anyway.

Targets!

LSD
Prop loop
Stage 3 HD tune (Z32 AFM, Sunny GTIR injectors, stg 3 chip)
Dodgy paintjob

Re-MoT

Timeframe? God knows! I've washed my daily twice in 8 months... kind of tells you how much time I have for silly things at the moment!!

Just finished reading through this thread the last few nights, I liked Capris anyway but this is amazing! Got a little bit of a Mad Max vibe too which is pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing what's next!

Cheers,
Drew