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  • 1 year later...

It's taken over a year.

 

New house and new cars. I was playing Hondas and then this came along.

 

Factory Turbo Charade.

 

Guy I bought it off had no idea. Stopped running and he left it in his driveway for a year.

 

The problem. Points had closed up. Wacked in a new set a boom. Engine and turbo are sweet.

 

Body has had obvious repairs and seemed too good too be true.

 

It was. Looks like it's been cut and shut. Rust in the drivers rail.

 

When I had it on stands the drivers door wouldn't close!

 

The Plan? Drop the running gear and interior into the silver Charade.

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  • 2 weeks later...

There's been a bit of action in the garage.

 

Engine is in and running. Biggest drama was the electric fuel pump relay. Non Turbo's have a mechanical pump.

 

I figured I'd swap engine looms. Turns out the loom had completely different plugs in the back of the fuse box. So with the help of the Gregorys Manual I spliced the connector into the original loom.

 

All running and has been road tested. Now I'm tackling the interior. Although I thought this'd be a straight bolt in there are so many little differences between series 1 and series 2, it's driving me nuts. Still, Xmas holidays may as well be used fixing old cars!

 

Oh and check the bonnet hinge on the donor car. Very out of square.

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It 's back.

 

Daihard with a hair dryer.

 

Carby has an awful flat spot and the idle is everywhere. I've ordered a carby kit and should be here next week.

 

Still running the non turbo exhaust as the 2" one that came with it had a massive hole in the muffler. Another thing on the to do list.

 

Oh and get tyres fitted to the turbo wheels. Stud pattern? 4x110

 

Thanks for the comments Ben.

 

The front frowny nose on the white one is longer.

 

I found this out the hard way when I tried to fit the turbo front sway bar.

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