Do I sell the saxo and get this?

With the saxo starting to try and kill me seriously considering listening to my mum and buying a different car and selling off the saxo parts.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190468607042&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Offered him £250 ages ago before he got messed about. Its cheaper to insure than the saxo, is cheap and looks to not need much work. Body work I can sort myself.

When I have been paid do I buy it and bin the saxo after selling the engine etc. Think I should be able to make £1000 from saxo parts.

Yes or no???

No. Use the £1000 to buy a half decent one.

So thats a yes sell the saxo?

I really have had enough of it. If I sold the saxo parts I could probably afford to buy a turbo
Seeing as the insurance is still less than the saxos!!

Well when you say sell, i mean scrap

You honestly think you'll pull £1000 out of it?

Engines can sell for £400+, wheels around £250 cause not best condition, then there is the exhaust which is worth secondhand around £300 for the lot.

Plus the little things I have and then I can maybe sell the shell.

Just an FYI Rich... Saxo/106 parts aren't selling easily ATM and they aren't fetching much dollar either - my 16v block went for £90 in the end, my TD 1.2s from the Saxo went for £180, ive litterally just sold some Spax I had lying about for 4 months for £50. Not a good time to be doing it unless you're prepared to sell cheap or you don't mind waiting for stuff to move.

Stop mincing though

Haha speaking of mincing, just found this....
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2242383.htm
Possible one for me.

Yeah I have the bmw till end of Jan, might have work by then with any luck so could afford something.

Not too fussed about waiting, I know things arent selling too well. Got some threads on boners and spax-p to guage interest.

selling one project to buy another....you've been on here too long.

and stop sheeping the mr2 crowd,the love-in will only last as long as it takes for the first one to sell up :p there was a track ready 205 someone put up on here a few weeks back for 800 that was pure win and woukd serve you far better on a budget

Im going away from french cars Alex.

I am open to suggestions, mr2 was because I like them, Adams just made me actually start looking.

Its been decided, the saxo is being sold off!

Sheep? Im not Welsh!

MGM wrote:

there was a track ready 205

The best idea ever

Whiting wrote:

MGM wrote:

there was a track ready 205

The best idea ever

You are wrong, why swap on french pile of poo for an older french pile of poo?
Maybe if I had a daily car I would get one.

Get a Fiat Coupe Turbo... Or megane

Get rid of the saxo, i thought it was a bit silly keeping it and getting a mr2 as a daily because the saxo will be underpowered and you will just want RWD on track

Sam I had a megane, it was french. Fiats are no better.

Im going Jap or German.

Rich sell the saxo and save as much as possible and buy a decent n/a. Rev1-2 or if you can make it to £1500 you could pick up a decent high mileage rev3. As long as the car has a decent service history the engines last well. Mine old rev3 n/a was on 152K and was still on the original H/G. Turbos dont take the mileage so well.

Any mr2 you buy try get one with as much history as possible.

Id be very very carefull buying a turbo for any less than 2K. Personally l would'nt do it. For a decent rev1-2 turbo your looking at no less than 2.5K mate, you dont want to be buying a turbo thats not being serviced or looked after as it should. Ive read so many horror stories of people buying cheap £1500 turbos then paying the same again for an engine re-built. Alot of dogs about mate including n/a's so just be carefull or you might find yourself with a money pit.

If it was my money id try my best to get a decent n/a bud.

Find a good one and you should have many trouble free miles ahead

I might be getting a job, so will wait to see how that goes. Now I am not spending money on the saxo I should have a little more for putting towards a car.

I have started to get offers on parts already!

I just need to decide what sort of car I want. I want something fun on track but still useable daily, not too expensive on parts or insurance.

Mx-5, prelude(older square shaped ones), mr2, maybe golf, or bmw e30/e36 or something.
Ideas would be helpful

Avoid an mr2 turbo then fuel will kill you mate.

n/a's aint cheap to run and parts are expensive.

But fit some decent pads (yellow stuff were fine on my n/a) and fluid change and they are track ready.

Oh and the only french car I would go for is a clio sport or 172..

Reechard wrote:

Oh and the only french car I would go for is a clio sport or 172..

Do it...

What is your actual budget then??

Unknown Sam lol. Probably around the £1000 mark unless I start working.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1817515.htm

sell the shitty body kit and wheels. its got the right engine already.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2184451.htm

perfect. as long as its rust free.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1907562.htm

starlet turbo if you can save a bit, but allegedly don't handle. don't know, never driven one myself.

oh and this.......

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2180235.htm

Adam86 wrote:

Rich sell the saxo and save as much as possible and buy a decent n/a. Rev1-2 or if you can make it to £1500 you could pick up a decent high mileage rev3. As long as the car has a decent service history the engines last well. Mine old rev3 n/a was on 152K and was still on the original H/G. Turbos dont take the mileage so well.

Any mr2 you buy try get one with as much history as possible.

Id be very very carefull buying a turbo for any less than 2K. Personally l would'nt do it. For a decent rev1-2 turbo your looking at no less than 2.5K mate, you dont want to be buying a turbo thats not being serviced or looked after as it should. Ive read so many horror stories of people buying cheap £1500 turbos then paying the same again for an engine re-built. Alot of dogs about mate including n/a's so just be carefull or you might find yourself with a money pit.

If it was my money id try my best to get a decent n/a bud.

Find a good one and you should have many trouble free miles ahead

rich can you tell who I listened to when looking for one, considering what I said on FB the other day!

but as said, if your after a nice daily an N/A is the better one tbh as a turbo will rape you on fuel, i've found that and you don't realise until you actually are at the pump on every 1-2 journeys

Now has a job! I shall be saving for a car aswell now, so budget might move...

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fspurg&action=display&thread=91602

Worth a look IMO

Whatever I get I need quickly! Done about 21 miles so far on the bike, a I am dead, havent riden this much for a while, and b its bloody freezing, been home for 20mins and still my face feels like an icecube!

lol rich

good going! I'll turn the heaters up next time i'm out

woz_106 wrote:

good going! I'll turn the heaters up next time i'm out

Well climate control incase you had to turn the headers down lol. Dont want to work too hard

If you really wanted a rev3 turbo project l found this in b4t colours!

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=139066

Ill be honest l wouldnt buy it myslef due to the mileage and lack of service history. Body can be sorted but engine/turbo parts are expensive! But you wont find a cheaper rev3 turbo.