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[Ruaraidh]

Hi folks,

Im new on here, my names Ruaraidh and I stay near Inverness,

just bought this xr2i about three weeks ago to use for forest rallying, I've got my license and everything sorted out so I have about 6 months to get the car fully converted for the scottish rally championship 2014 which starts again in February.

A friend of mine also has an xr2i rally car which he uses in the same championship so it should be good fun!

Heres a few pics of the work so far

this is when we picked it up ( and drove 620 miles home from Aldershot! )


starting to remove the interior, the rear floors are fantastic! shame the sills and front floor corners aren't so good! haha



The OMP cage for it


Bodykit removed passenger side


Sill was a bit rotten






New sill on after repairing inner sill


all ground down seams sealed and painted


Bodykit back on, the rivets are for two reasons, the previous owner had cut away the arch lips to lower the car a rediculous ammount, so they had just been bonded back on after removing the arch lips, so they are now rivetted on for this reason, and also to make it far stronger for rallying as they will be getting a fair ammount of stuff thrown at them and now and again probably being caught by the wheels (hopefully we wont be hitting too much hard enough to cause that but forest rallying can get pretty bumpy!)


these are the dodgy old springs we took off


Avo coilovers cleaned up and painted with new 200lb springs



And now on to the rather rotten drivers side! :/



More updates to come soon

[willowandmikey]

Welcome nice start

[Ruaraidh]

thanks!

[Smo]

Looks a really good project!

Nice work on that sill... Need to do mine one day!

[Ruaraidh]

Thanks very much! Getting the drivers side sorted might take a bit more work, but it's quite a good shell really!

[fiestarsturboblack]

Nice mate good job on pass side n I do like the rivet look. An welcome lookin forward for more updates

[Ruaraidh]

Thanks mate! Have to say I quite like it too! Haha passenger sides looking a bit better already, ill get updates up soon

[Ruaraidh]

Thanks mate! Have to say I quite like it too! Haha passenger sides looking a bit better already, ill get updates up soon

[Ratspeed]

Good work so far, that old suspension is shocking!

[rs_fiesta]

Cool,glad to see someone else who rallies on here.

[Ruaraidh]

pretty dodgy isn't it!

Nice one mate what do you rally?

Sorry for no photos, not had much time to work on it this week with work, hopefully get some done tonight though!

[rs_fiesta]

Used for road rallies,currently in the bodyshop being sprayed white.
Also do the Endurance champ with my dad in his 106 rallye(now sold and building a MG ZR)

Any updates on the 2i?

[s1chris]

Old thread resurrection alert!!!

Any updates on this one. Building my FRST to basically the same spec as this 2i albeit it won't actually be used on any rallies etc.
interested in what sump gaurd was used, what prep to chassis (stitch welding etc) and also the layout of additional gauges and switches etc.

cheers Chris

[RS1800-Cookie]

Old thread resurrection alert!!!

Any updates on this one. Building my FRST to basically the same spec as this 2i albeit it won't actually be used on any rallies etc.
interested in what sump gaurd was used, what prep to chassis (stitch welding etc) and also the layout of additional gauges and switches etc.

cheers Chris

why not take a look at my thread. my car is being built to a rally car spec