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#21 User is offline   victor manuel 

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 05:01 PM

Hi, guys!

My situation is quite similar to Cartman´s one. My name is Victor and I live in Spain. I know I should have posted a presentation at first but I do not know how to add images to the messages (and I am a little lazy, too).

Well, this is my 2nd puma, bought in 1999. It is a 1.7 and now has 180,000 km, but it still has plenty of power. I have fitted an FRP airbox and inlet. I have bought FRP cams, a second hand complete FRP exhaust system, ST150 complete front brakes, FRP second hand rear brakes, 4 new white 16" compomotive TH2 and front Puma Recaro seats. All these things are waiting to be fitted...but it would never be an FRP, of course.
I have thought many times about purchasing an FRP and use my car as a donor to convert it to LHD but I do not know if I can register an FRP in Spain because perhaps FRP cannot be homologated in Spain. I have asked about it in Spain and some people has told me that if FRP has an "european password" (I do not know what is the exact term in English) there would be no problem but perhaps it only has an "UK password" because it is really a different car and was only sold in UK. Besides, there can be insurance problems in Spain.
Do you know something about it?

Another way to do it, as I think it has been mentioned before in another post, would be to change the chassis data from my car to the FRP and get an homologation of the changes done in "my" car. Is it possible to do it? How?

I am still in doubt: spend money finishing my car or reserve it to purchase and convert an FRP?

Thanks in advance
Victor







View PostCartMan, on 30 May 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

:) hopefuly FRP9 can do the same :)

Thnx for the info :)

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#22 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 06:54 AM

so, I finaly got round to changing my radiator and termostathousing this weekend, was going to change the watterpump to, but as the workshop is being renovated, I coulsn't find a socet big enough for the motor mount, so, beeing tierd and hungry, I thiought to h.. with it, it's not leaking yet :) wil do it later.. :)
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#23 User is offline   happy-kat 

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 08:27 PM

easy for you as you can do the job later if it leaks ;)
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#24 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 30 June 2011 - 10:17 AM

:) found out yesterday that I have a leak from the smal hose going out from the coolant filler box thingy :) (forgott the english word lol) at the point where it conects to the engien, bahhh. wil have to fix asap. might just get a komplete sett of colant hoses :) just so they are all new :)
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#25 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 01 July 2011 - 10:08 PM

there, leak fiksed :) I hope :)

benn toying whit the settings of my stereo, Its hard to get the sound just right, either the sound scene is all wrong, or the base is wrong,.... need to mod my speekerpods more I think. need to physicaly seperate the woofers from the 6X9s, by inserting a bord or something so that it becomes 2 chambers. bahhhhh, that meens opening them up again, and I used 2 hole cans of window glue to seal them up :( wish me luck :)
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#26 User is offline   SPARTAN196 

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Posted 02 July 2011 - 07:53 PM

As for the respray, Performance blue or frozen white.... both ford paints.

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Posted 03 July 2011 - 07:14 AM

You should do it an interesting colour not just a standard manufacturers blend! Maybe get it wrapped!
FRP 038 - R.I.P killed by an old man in his toyota avensis.
FRP 245 - sold, then killed by new owner!
FRP 225 - sold in 2013 and regretted it ever since!FRP ??? - Now after another one after two years of Fiesta ST2 ownership.

#28 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 05:42 PM

hmmm, stil has an intermitant leak :( must search more, cheking prices on all the water hoses tomorov, probably one or two that have a coolant build up round it's conektion, or a smal crack....

This post has been edited by CartMan: 06 July 2011 - 07:21 PM

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#29 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 06 July 2011 - 07:19 PM

just thought I'd share some pics of my old puma, and to say that I am not going to go this route this time :) I'm making an frp :)

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This post has been edited by CartMan: 10 July 2011 - 11:38 AM

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#30 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 09 July 2011 - 10:00 PM

borrowed a car home from work today :) this is the R-design red I'm thinking about putting on the puma

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and this is the Ocean race 2 blue :)

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(this is my dad's new car, just got it yesterday :))

side by side

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and this is the Ford aquarius blue

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This post has been edited by CartMan: 10 July 2011 - 01:57 PM

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Time, is the fire in which we burn

#31 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 10 July 2011 - 02:00 PM

status update :) ripped out most of the interior, just the front seats and front door cards left. wil be stripping out the rest soon, to check the floor for rust, and treet it if so. :)
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Posted 10 July 2011 - 10:04 PM

Hi CartMan, keep it in jewel green and you've got the only FRP (Replica) in this colour. It's the right choice for me cause i have the same ;)

#33 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 11 July 2011 - 11:54 AM

:) you have a point there :) a good one to :)
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#34 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 16 July 2011 - 10:16 PM

so, I think I'we dicided on a collor, I think I'l be going whit the Ocean Race 2 blue, maby just lighten it a tiny tiny bit. I'm telling you that collor has been growing on me, and seeing it in the sun today, mmmm, its a realy nice collor :)

and, being as I'we bought FRP door kards front and rear, being blue, I kind of have to have a collor that matches, so, I'm seriously considering the Ocean Race 2 :)

on thath note, I'm going to the volvo car club norway's anual meet at Rudskogen motorsenter tomorrow, ore today, as its past 24 :) I'll be driving one of our demo cars, the red Volvo V60 R-design that is in the pics over. Hoping to have some funn :) I wont be taking to the track this time, as its not my car, and as it only has a 1.6 TD puttig out 115HP, and 270nM torq. (its a DrivE)

This post has been edited by CartMan: 16 July 2011 - 10:19 PM

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#35 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 21 July 2011 - 05:41 PM

Uppdate :)

JAYYYYY :) found my watter leak, big hose coming out of the rear of somethiG :) at the back of the engien near the gear box. the screw tie had worn a smal crack, and now watter was coming out as it pleased :( sadly I broke my würth air tool for undoiung these todaym, so I'l have to fix it later, to lasy to do it by hand :) lol.

anyway, got my brakes today :=) super happy whit that thnx to big g :) looks grate, installed the fronts today, wil have to wait a bit to install the rears, as i need to mashine the hubs, as im going to have to get the abs to work to, and I'm also waiting on a new "new" style rear aksel, so my frp suspensipon wil fitt :)


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#36 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 27 July 2011 - 11:22 AM

yeay :) just orderd about a £1000s worth of small bolts, bushes, hubs, wires and so on, luckely, since I work at a ford dealer, I'm only paying about £500 :) and hopefully I won't need all of it :)
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#37 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 12:30 PM

got my axel spacers today :)

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 07:15 PM

Do you have much left to do now?
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#39 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 11:42 AM

underneeth I'm missing the left hand knuckle, both driveshafts, and wioshbones at the front, at the rear I'm missing the corect type rear aksel,

I'm yet to aquire the bodykitt, and a complet interior, have sourced the door cards, but they have not arived yet :)

engien is stil stock :( planing to get atleast the 4 2 1 manifoil and cams, but not shure what to do about the inntake. it so rare :(

så, in short, I'm getting there, but it's stil some time before I can cal it an FRP :)
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#40 User is offline   CartMan 

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 06:45 PM

hi guys, long time no post :( wel its quite simple, I'm having a hard time tracking down the last parts I need :( ie Wishbones, driveshafts, and the left hand knuckle, anyone out there hawe any for me??

also, I have not orderd the bodykit yet, but that is just bocause I'm out of BIG money at the moment :)

anyway, I was thinking that my current custom exaust is to loud :( yea yea, I'm borring and old :( so, I fix Volvos for a living, the otther day this brand new XC60 R-design 2.4 diesl komes inn, says I have to change out the back box becouse it had been rear ended, shure, no prob..... I take it up on the lift, and it's barely toutched, I bet just losening the fastners and repositioning it would be all that is needed, but hey, I'l doo it :) so now I'm in posession of said back box, and thinking of fitting it to my cat :) it wil take some modefying, but it should be fairly simple stuff :)

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And in a bissare tur of events, I might be getting a second puma, a 1.4 99 or 00 the sellers didn't realy know, al they knew was that it is suposed to be mint :) lokking at about £2000 or 20.000 NOK. its jewel green as wel, and I'm thinking of swaping my 1.7 into it and the 1.4 back to the 1.7 and sell it of, so I will have a better shel for my conversion, but it is about 2 weeks of before it arives :(


anyway, pleaze PLEAZE if you have any of the FRP bits I need, do not hessitate to pm me :) I am most defenetly interested :)
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