The Fun Truck

[CrazyDom]

At the end of last month, I became the owner of a rather unkempt 2000 Fun truck. Overall not in terrible condition, but it certainly wasn't great. The entire interior was a HazMat danger zone with mould on anything and everything, but after a mate of mine spent a few hours cleaning away, it became safe to enter, and I've been enjoying it.

 

It had already been lowered (badly), and had the alloys on it. It came with the original Fun alloys as well, but I'll almost certainly be getting rid of them as they're just far too yellow for my liking!!

 

 

The plans for it are:

- custom door cards to fit 6x9 speakers in the back section of the door pockets, just to give a bit better sound in the cab

- marine 6x9s in the bed

- uprate the front suspension (I've heard that mk1 Focus coilovers fit on the front?? Not sure what's involved with fitting them though)

- tidy up the body work

- get more power into the engine bay

 

 

I'm looking into possible engine conversions, as I'd like to get at least 130hp in there as the stock 75hp is just pathetic really. I've toyed with the idea of getting a 272 Newman cam, porting and skimming the head, fitting bigger injectors, bigger throttle body and getting the ECU remapped. I've also toyed with the idea of a 1.8T conversion (though been put off that after reading Tom's thread!!), but I am now mostly looking at the Polo GTi 1.6 16V engine as Tom did in his thread.

 

From reading through his thread, I'll go along a similar line to how he did it, but using a 1.6 16V block and head, and using the 1.4 16V intake manifold and throttle body as that's cable operated, use the sump off my AEE for the exhaust clearance, and use a rear crankshaft oil seal and housing off an AEE to clear the bellhousing adapter plate. Running it all off a 1.6 16V ECU.

 

All fun to play with at some point in the future eh?

 

 

 

 

I fitted this steering wheel as the original one was so mouldy and filthy that there was just no way of getting it back to being any resemblance of clean!!!

Edited 14 April, 2015 by CrazyDom

[CrazyDom]

Fitted a couple of stickers to the truck too. Couldn't resist the transformers ones!!!

 

[faradaycage]

At the end of last month, I became the owner of a rather unkempt 2000 Fun truck. Overall not in terrible condition, but it certainly wasn't great. The entire interior was a HazMat danger zone with mould on anything and everything, but after a mate of mine spent a few hours cleaning away, it became safe to enter, and I've been enjoying it.

 

It had already been lowered (badly), and had the alloys on it. It came with the original Fun alloys as well, but I'll almost certainly be getting rid of them as they're just far too yellow for my liking!!

 

 

The plans for it are:

- custom door cards to fit 6x9 speakers in the back section of the door pockets, just to give a bit better sound in the cab

- marine 6x9s in the bed

- uprate the front suspension (I've heard that mk1 Focus coilovers fit on the front?? Not sure what's involved with fitting them though)

- tidy up the body work

- get more power into the engine bay

 

 

I'm looking into possible engine conversions, as I'd like to get at least 130hp in there as the stock 75hp is just pathetic really. I've toyed with the idea of getting a 272 Newman cam, porting and skimming the head, fitting bigger injectors, bigger throttle body and getting the ECU remapped. I've also toyed with the idea of a 1.8T conversion (though been put off that after reading Tom's thread!!), but I am now mostly looking at the Polo GTi 1.6 16V engine as Tom did in his thread.

 

From reading through his thread, I'll go along a similar line to how he did it, but using a 1.6 16V block and head, and using the 1.4 16V intake manifold and throttle body as that's cable operated, use the sump off my AEE for the exhaust clearance, and use a rear crankshaft oil seal and housing off an AEE to clear the bellhousing adapter plate. Running it all off a 1.6 16V ECU.

 

All fun to play with at some point in the future eh?

 

 

 

 

I fitted this steering wheel as the original one was so mouldy and filthy that there was just no way of getting it back to being any resemblance of clean!!!

I'm liking that.....I'm liking that a lot.

[NigNB]

Am liking these trucks, am guessing they're increasingly difficult to find?