The £350 track car

So my brother has finally out grown his days of wanting to "stance" cars and realised that actually driving them as fast as possible is much more fun.

After 25 years of always copying his big brother he's gone and bought himself a V reg puma for a bargain £350!! Cambelt was recently done and apart from a few rust scabs and a dent on the n/s/r quarter its pretty much a mint car.... Almost a shame to rip it to bits!

First track day is also booked for Mallory on 21st May so progress has been pretty rapid on this, a whole list of parts have been ordered and fitted.

We'll start from the beginning.

The car in its unmolested state.



Fixing leaky rocker gasket



Quite abit had leaked into the spark plugs....



Time for the fun to start... Stripping out and guess who got that job, Me!





Removing all the sound deadening



Cleaned up and gave the boot a few coats of red to smarten it up a bit



Front stripped, nothing left in there now!





Had a spare set of Fox alloy wheels Dave gave them a rub back, few coats of primer and some satin black to tidy them up. Tyres to be fitted this week.



Piper exhaust that he bought, back box polished up nicely.



Fitted up nicely



Had to make a couple of holes to alloy for the harnesses to fit.



Done - Bucket seats coming next!



All that effort to fit a tow strap!!



Thats as far as we've got so far, AP Coilovers should be here this week, 300mm brake conversion its also on its way to us.
Hoping to get my spare bucket seat fitting in time for Mallory Park but just depends on time for that one.

Lots of other little touches coming, home made front splitter and whatever else I can think of!!

Great stuff! Although deep inside I would have liked it to be left alone (the red paint with the props are ace together) as looked in such good nick esp for the price!

(I've spent more money recently buying a bonnet, fixing it, and buying the 4 aerocatches needed to fit it!)

Looking great there Jay, good fast progress :grin:

red said:

Looking great there Jay, good fast progress :grin:

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Cheers... Im good at spending other peoples money. I just end up having to fit it!

Another box has arrived, more goodies!!

so shiny it hurts :-D

Hoping the 300mm front brakes arrive today or tomorrow, can get it all fitted up and ready for some fun then!

Tyres are all mounted up on the wheels and balanced



300mm brake kit also arrived today. Its all happening quickly!!

TR1s or RS 2's? Patterns so similar, wheel came up good!

looking like a great project i also bought a puma 1.7 for £350 V reg 93K on the clock and struck gold how much did you pay for the AP coilovers? as im after some. Did you put the silver heat resitant tape on the engine side of the bonnet? :lol: :thumbs: i was lucky with my Puma as it had a old lady owner for the past 4 years and has never been fraped only one bad point about my body was the usual dreded wheel arch rust which hapens on all pumas unfortunatly!
have fun
jason

grayfox said:

TR1s or RS 2's? Patterns so similar, wheel came up good!

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T1-R's.... More to the point, my old T1-R's! Nothing is safe!

demonskull13 said:

looking like a great project i also bought a puma 1.7 for £350 V reg 93K on the clock and struck gold how much did you pay for the AP coilovers? as im after some. Did you put the silver heat resitant tape on the engine side of the bonnet? :lol: :thumbs: i was lucky with my Puma as it had a old lady owner for the past 4 years and has never been fraped only one bad point about my body was the usual dreded wheel arch rust which hapens on all pumas unfortunatly!
have fun
jason

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AP's were about £320 from venom motorsport I think.... My brother put the heat tape under the bonnet, he obviously got bored while I was underneath the car fitting the exhaust!

Brakes going on today, had a right bonus with them, 300mm front conversion inc as new yellow stuff pads, grooved discs and the goodridge braided lines for £140.. BARGAIN!!

Coilovers might go on today as well but we'll see what happens.

PumaJay said:

AP's were about £320

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£320!!???

I paid that for mine second hand! :'(

CherryVimto said:

PumaJay said:

AP's were about £320

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£320!!???

I paid than for mine second hand! :'(

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Same! I thought it was good value at the time haha.

More progress this weekend, spent Saturday afternoon fitting the coilovers. Didnt get round to doing the brakes just yet.

Front one in



Rear on

One fool...



Looking much better now...



300mm brakes next!

Looking good mate, you fancy doing Cadwell Park on the 24th June its a Wednesday thought so a lot of people cannot do it? I not sure if someone asked you on Facebook already. I know your doing few other tracks this year.

Probably not dude, Im in Mexico for 2 weeks before then....

Finally I remembered my log in details. So yeh Jay has been busy building this car for me whilst I've supplied tea, biscuits and beer.

Brakes will be fitted Friday

Then it's bring on Mallory park. The first track day for the car.

Keep watching this project as there is still a few things i want to do

i have found these ap coilovers for£326.00 and i think £26.00 postage from germany check these out! AP Coilovers Lowering gf30-013 Ford Puma etc HA Eyes 35-75/35-75 on ebay . now im going to start saving to buy some as on my last m.o.t advisory said each shock was rusty but still passable m.o.t. runs out november
your puma is coming on proper nice Jay
are you going to go to any of the puma meets as i want to go but dont know where they are. :roll:

Not sure about Puma meets this year... Both mine and this car will be at Trax in september though

Bit more progress today..

300mm brakes on



and its been branded! #TrackAddict

are they the mondeo mk3 discs Jay? looking good i am going to get some at some time just got to save up.
just put some neons on the front of mine what do you think?