56 minutes ago, Paul thornton said:

Crikey, no messing about!

 

Much easier second time round 

She lives 

Awesome!!!!

It moved round the block under its own steam today, just needs speedo wiring in and low coolant wiring to bottle, not a major heartache. All seemed well it’s holding coolant fine and heaters are lovely and warm. Coolant run on pumps working perfectly too :). Coilovers have been rIsed on the front too as it would have been stupid low with the extra weight of the engine. I’ll get some more pics tomorrow now it’s finally back on the floor

Just a couple of things left to sort, one of the wiper wires needs swapping in interior loom, need to sort out the speedo as the original sensor off box on 1.4 won’t fit into the Ibiza box, and the low coolant wiring off the bottle need wiring in. Hopefully rain will hold off tomorrow and I can get a crack on. Still waiting for dash to be finished so it’s abit ghetto inside lol lots of things cable tied. Anyway some pics now it’s back together 

 

Edited 12 January, 20197 yr by TrevorB33

Looks great Trevor. The engine bay looks like it was meant to be there.

Wipers sorted and low coolant connector wired in to header tank. Been for a run to the petrol station and back circa 8miles and all is well. Just speedo to sort and dash to fit back once it’s done 

Dash is done, picking up Friday hopefully, used it today and did 60miles, all went well except the o/s cv joint appears to have shat itself as there’s cv grease everywhere. Strange it’s gone so quick, job for next week 

Dash has been picked up today, very impressed it looks great. Will fit that tomorrow along with a power flex dogbone bush and also picked up a downturned tip for the piper exhaust. Also found a second hand driveshaft so I’ll swap that over tomorrow 

Love the dash Trevor, you getting anything else flocked?

1 hour ago, Lofty said:

Love the dash Trevor, you getting anything else flocked?

 

Cheers buddy, I’m really impressed with it tbh. And I Wasnt really planning any more on it but I’ll see how it goes with the grey bottom half of the dash, I’m hoping it will be a nice contrast otherwise I might have to source some black trims or get the bottom bits flocked too 

Edited 19 January, 20197 yr by TrevorB33

Great project Trev!! Glad to see you back in a Fabia and with a great engine now to boot!

6 hours ago, Skoda_Saint said:

Great project Trev!! Glad to see you back in a Fabia and with a great engine now to boot!

 

I did miss my Fabias

Dash fitted today so all back together now, just speedo to wire in but that can be done in the engine bay once my sender arrives. Driveshaft fitted to o/s after the last one spat all its grease out the boot. And powerflex dogbone mount fitted. Time to get some use out of her and save for a body shop visit

I reckon the dash colours work, what do you make of it @TrevorB33? 

Looking good pal, can't wait to get mine over to him now lol

did you fit the leather cover on the steering wheel - looks a neat job - was it an ebay special?

3 hours ago, Hyphons said:

I reckon the dash colours work, what do you make of it @TrevorB33? 

 

I think it kinda goes, I may swap it all out for black but I’m in no rush 

 

4 minutes ago, skomaz said:

did you fit the leather cover on the steering wheel - looks a neat job - was it an ebay special?

 

Previous owner stitched it on, it’s a good job tbh and looks decent in person too, she said it took hours to stitch which is believable. I definitely wouldn’t have had the patience lol

 

2 hours ago, SNH said:

Looking good pal, can't wait to get mine over to him now lol

 

Indeed mate I couldn’t wait to collect it, i May or may not stroke it while I’m driving 

Couple of hundred miles in now  did a scrap run this morning too so had her on a weight bridge 1220kg with 1/2tank fuel 

Edited 21 January, 20197 yr by TrevorB33

Ibiza shell went today, finally have my drive back 

Loving the buil! I think I might do the same. But here we have 9N3 polo gti. Might do the trick? 

 

Cheers mate! 

10 hours ago, CrisBora said:

Loving the buil! I think I might do the same. But here we have 9N3 polo gti. Might do the trick? 

 

Cheers mate! 

Cheers, yep 9n3 polo will fit straight in, reason they don’t get used as much here is they hold there money a lot better upwards of 3k still whereas Ibiza’s are near 1k

Edited 29 March, 20197 yr by TrevorB33

Update time: now one of my other cars has gone I’m able to use the fabia again, mot is due and it needs a couple of headlights and the remap tweaking to cater for the various deletes, but I’m confident it’ll fly through once there sorted. So time to sort some insurance, and then look at getting the bodywork sorted once’s she’s on the road again  

Edited 26 May, 20197 yr by TrevorB33

First wash ever since I’ve had her 😂, so many little dints and scratches I should have left it dirty ha. Now it’s raining.

 

 

 

Productive afternoon, got a pair of all mounts intact unbroken headlights from the scrapyard, along with a bonnet grill so I can get that sprayed, and a connector for the low coolant light as the original off the fabia was broken. And a n/s bumper grill as the tabs on original were broken.