BA - 323F Rock's Lady in red - 323F GTR

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:44 am

Cheers Guys! :cheers:

Found it in London on Chi's drive :P lol
Yeah that diffuser is rather old now! always wanted to re-create it in carbon fibre but never had the time or money! :roll:

We are planning on contacting the Magazines but really we'd like to get the front resprayed before any photo shoots, no way thats going to happen anytime soon, no money left! :cry:

**Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:29 pm

ChrisL323f wrote:

Chi's old car!!!

Where the hell did you find it?! :lol:

323F Rock wrote:

Cheers Guys! :cheers:

Found it in London on Chi's drive :P lol

Haha - best reply ever

So, when do i get to go out in the beast?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:24 pm

Matt wrote:

Haha - best reply ever

JAE? or whenever your near Birmingham matey

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:47 pm

f*** me!!!
Excellent work you guys, loving it! :thumbleft:

**Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:52 pm

Neil F wrote:

:shock: f*** me!!!
Excellent work you guys, loving it! :thumbleft:

can tell who doesn't check the whole forum that often lol

**Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:52 am

Haha thank you El Presidente :salute:

**Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:06 pm

Damn! Simply damn!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:16 pm

Nice work there guys!

Now going for the turbo on the Maz2 :lol:

?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:31 am

Thanks mate!

haha no i dont think so although.... Knightsport do a supercharger kit.... :oops:

**Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:23 pm

The other weekend we bled the brakes to see if that was the brake issue.
there were some small bubbles in the front driver side caliper but not much at all

we're looking at different brake pads and have contacted EBC and they are willing to make some yellowstuff pads in hte hope that they will cope with the higher temperatures.

Also got some new sickspeed horns and a big heavy knob

:cheers:

**Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:24 pm

323F Rock wrote:

Also got some new sickspeed horns and a big heavy knob

:cheers:

Theres no need to boast

**Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:08 am

Lookin good mate, I don't mean to insult you, but why not just buy Chi's car and keep as it is? I always loved that car, but i'm guessing you couldn't let yours go?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:42 am

A L 3 X wrote:

Lookin good mate, I don't mean to insult you, but why not just buy Chi's car and keep as it is? I always loved that car, but i'm guessing you couldn't let yours go?

1 -because it would always be known as "Chi's car"
2 - they'd already put a lot of work into their own
3 - although Chi's car looked good, it still needed a lot of work on the wiring side of things so was just as quick if not better to take the engine out and check the wiring as they put it into their car as it would have been to try and sort the wiring out in Chi's car
4 - because chi's car was bought purely for the engine

**Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:07 am

Nice work guys.

Did you buy Chi's car whole? You might have a bit of Moby if you did. The battered Mazdaspeed steering wheel was from Moby.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:17 pm

Matt wrote:

A L 3 X wrote:

Lookin good mate, I don't mean to insult you, but why not just buy Chi's car and keep as it is? I always loved that car, but i'm guessing you couldn't let yours go?

1 -because it would always be known as "Chi's car"
2 - they'd already put a lot of work into their own
3 - although Chi's car looked good, it still needed a lot of work on the wiring side of things so was just as quick if not better to take the engine out and check the wiring as they put it into their car as it would have been to try and sort the wiring out in Chi's car
4 - because chi's car was bought purely for the engine

Pretty much as Matt said

The wiring for the dials wasn't connected either so the interior needed stripping and there were a couple of leaks which needed attending to, and if we'd have just swapped cars then it wouldn't have been a project :lol:

haha

the installation needed some work too as some bolts were missing and we wanted to change the layout of the engine bay so the various components looked like they belonged there.

all comments welcome though

@ Rob, we did yeah but the steering wheel had been replaced with a Sabelt dished one, did still have the mazdaspeed horn push though!

**Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:38 pm

323F Rock wrote:

Matt wrote:

A L 3 X wrote:

Lookin good mate, I don't mean to insult you, but why not just buy Chi's car and keep as it is? I always loved that car, but i'm guessing you couldn't let yours go?

1 -because it would always be known as "Chi's car"
2 - they'd already put a lot of work into their own
3 - although Chi's car looked good, it still needed a lot of work on the wiring side of things so was just as quick if not better to take the engine out and check the wiring as they put it into their car as it would have been to try and sort the wiring out in Chi's car
4 - because chi's car was bought purely for the engine

Pretty much as Matt said

The wiring for the dials wasn't connected either so the interior needed stripping and there were a couple of leaks which needed attending to, and if we'd have just swapped cars then it wouldn't have been a project :lol:

haha

the installation needed some work too as some bolts were missing and we wanted to change the layout of the engine bay so the various components looked like they belonged there.

all comments welcome though

@ Rob, we did yeah but the steering wheel had been replaced with a Sabelt dished one, did still have the mazdaspeed horn push though!

Ah I see mate, like I say I wasn't trying to cause offence or anything I just really loved the styling of Chi'scar personally, but I can understand you obviously would appreciate the car you've built more :thumbright:

**Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:58 pm

323F Rock wrote:

@ Rob, we did yeah but the steering wheel had been replaced with a Sabelt dished one, did still have the mazdaspeed horn push though!

Always good to see that a bit of Moby lives on in a BA

Especially on a 'Club Classic' like your's

**Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:58 pm

Good grief you guys have turned her into a beast! :shock:

Absolutely awesome! :cheers:

**Posted:** Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:45 am

Awesome, that's where Chi's old car went. If you put some things up for sale in the future, let me know...Cheers.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:18 pm

thanks guys

did some work on plugs today, i took the lower half of the dash board:

took the ashtray out

then i bent up some aluminium and cut some holes and most of the internals of the ashtray and mounted the plugs:

picture with the wires in:

Aux in for audio and video and usb port for pluging into the ECU for tuning
not finished 100% still need to polish the aluminium up and wire it in!

What do you think guys?

**Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:37 pm

Ooooooooh I do like that

**Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:45 pm

Nice, I like stealth touches like that. Just make sure no one tries to put there fag butts in there! :lol:

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:25 am

That is brilliant, love it.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:35 am

You need one of these for when you light the afterburner in that thing!!

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:07 am

Great idea! I think your USB socket may be the wrong way round though (unless you're plugging the ecu into the front)

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:58 am

Great work guys, I am sooooo looking forward to seeing it at JAE

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:06 pm

Very cool! Great idea guys.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:51 pm

Thanks guys

been busy today as well no pictures though

sickspeed horns fitted
top CAC brackets painted
new gear knob fitted
distributer o ring replaced
LED rear foglight bulb fitted
cam cover removed, gasket surfaces cleaned
cam cover sanded ready for paint

Cyntax wrote:

Great idea! I think your USB socket may be the wrong way round though (unless you're plugging the ecu into the front)

I have a short female usb A to a male usb B lead so i can plug the ECU in behind the dashboard and then just use a standard male usb A to male usb A lead to plug into my laptop and ECU

**Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:57 pm

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:26 pm

Finally, it's all show AND go!

Well done you two. It's what that car has yearned for for years

Mark

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