Few pictures of my new EGI (lots of them)

[Lacey]

And here it is on the driveway!








Melty goodness!



Missing door trim, replacement located somewhere in the car.






No idea what the red stripe is all about......






Bumper sticker!




Red leather insides.




Front seats





Rear seats covered by replacement passenger door card.



Obligatory engine bay shot.



A random spark plug cable tied to the engine - for the luv\'a god I hope there aren\'t any more of those actually IN the car.....



Le boot.



Le JVC whateveritis.

Thats all for now, stay tuned!

[Lacey]

Okay updated.

That JVC thing in the boot is some kind of CD changer, for the JVC stereo that doesn\'t have the cd changer thing with it.

The door trim that was located somewhere in the car is for a TII and thus doesn\'t fit, so is useless.

Has a full service history, which is nice!

Also found something odd - in with the full service history for my \'89 EGI, is the owners manual! ........For a Gen1? :rollin

So will more than likely pop it up in the for sale section after the weekend when things are a bit more settled with the car, for any Gen1 owner wanting an owners manual in good but not mint condition.

Sorted the engine out for the most part now, just a bit of a dead battery letting down getting it back to life today.

Also changing all the spark plugs for NGK9\'s, I found what was already in there was a complete set of (though they need a good clean) NGK10\'s!!! No they are not for sale. lol

Gear stick has some issues, the bolt-down seal is broken so the gear knob and stick itself is wobbly as hell and really horrible, so that\'s in pieces at the moment, that and the knob on it right now is ugly as hell, going to nab Prof\'s OEM gear knob off him and put that back on there for now, til I find one I like more.

Also the leather gear stick cowling thingywotsit is in terrible condition, so might be on the look out to replace that at some point.

The replacement door card for the passengers side is because the one in there right now is quite badly damaged, the vent is smashed, no idea how or why that would happen but hey, there\'s a replacement so I\'m not too worried.

So yeah, that\'s todays current update! Most of the car has been taken out and put in the garage just so that theres more room, gear stick is missing and it looks a bit worse for where at the moment with a few bits in and out missing, but it\'ll be sorted soon enough!

Also heres the video of it\'s first attempt at life, the first 4 seconds sounded really promising then the battery gave up the ghost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXs-gt-hc2g

[papercutout]

I want a red dash now

Not a bad looking car, nice work!

[L18M]

looking good
bolt down seal?? i have a stock TII shifter somewhere if you need? not sure which you mean is broke
"what we\'ll have to do tomorrow is..?"

i was in your area today was gonna pop past and see your beast but by the time i finished my stuff it was getting late and dark outside

[Lacey]

I want a red dash now

Not a bad looking car, nice work!

Haha, it does look quite nice doesn\'t it? I wasn\'t expecting the red interior when I first turned up to view it.

looking good
bolt down seal?? i have a stock TII shifter somewhere if you need? not sure which you mean is broke
"what we\'ll have to do tomorrow is..?"

i was in your area today was gonna pop past and see your beast but by the time i finished my stuff it was getting late and dark outside

Uhhhh, how to describe.... When you unscrew the gear knob, and pull off the cowling and surround, and the thung rubber sheet thing, and maybe another rubber layer, theres a stiffener for the gearstick, black one, thats held down by 3x9mm bolts, the one on mine is completely broken so it wobbles like its out on the lash, whether it\'s in neutral or even in gear, which is really worrying.

Just took a picture, it\'s this thing.



Sod knows what it\'s called, but that\'s why the gear sticks gone all flappy like it\'s on the lash, it\'s got no stiffness to it.

Course I wouldn\'t say no to anything that doesn\'t cost money!

Edit:

Oh and as for popping in, we didnt go in til it was dark, so you\'d have caught us and been in time for pasta!

[L18M]

looks different to the TII one.
WhatsApp me monday and i\'ll try dig it out.

[Lacey]

looks different to the TII one.
WhatsApp me monday and i\'ll try dig it out.

Sure, will do

Also just took a pic of this for anybody wanting a looky, why I have it I have no clue lol.

[Brett]

I\'ll check my EGi spares shed, might have those bits you\'re after

The vents are notoriously brittle, delicate touch or the die!

All in all its looking tidy and in a very rare colour

[Lacey]

I\'ll check my EGi spares shed, might have those bits you\'re after

The vents are notoriously brittle, delicate touch or the die!

All in all its looking tidy and in a very rare colour

I have the replacement entire door card to replace the passengers side, which has a new trim and vent thing on, one that\'s not broken. One thing I noticed, that you\'ll notice too by looking at the pictures, is that some of the interior that\'s black (center console storage arm rest thing, glove box hatch) should be red, but some previous numpty has sprayed them black with a poor quality gloss black paint, which is flaking off revealing the red underneath. T_T


Thanks for checking Brett, I really do appreciate it!! Main things I really need to have the car looking tidy are the passengers side door trim, replacement FTP lenses, possible replacement OEM fog lights for the brake ducts, the ones stuck on the front currently are coming off as they\'re illegal.

Also can anybody quote me for (cross posted) replacement door and ignition barrel for peace of mind, as I only have one key?

Also a possible quote for dual reflector half-height lenses? (the kind that make lazy-eye kits not look utterly stupid - asking because previous owner fitted lazy eye kit (very badly) and seems a waste to just rip it out, though on stock lights i won\'t be using it)

[Brett]

Looks like it has a red series 4 interior, (in places) as I\'m pretty certain red wasn\'t an option on the later spec EGi\'s...

The door cards I have are of a slighty different pattern to those, the have speaker high up, not far from the arm rest - IIRC they are pretty good condition... will report back later after braving The Shed Of Spares And Dangerous Falling Objects :Giggle

[Lacey]

Looks like it has a red series 4 interior, (in places) as I\'m pretty certain red wasn\'t an option on the later spec EGi\'s...

The door cards I have are of a slighty different pattern to those, the have speaker high up, not far from the arm rest - IIRC they are pretty good condition... will report back later after braving The Shed Of Spares And Dangerous Falling Objects :Giggle

Hahahaha, thanks very much, I really appreciate it!

If you could draw up a brief list of the bits and pieces you have in spare, I can let you know which ones I\'ll be happy to take off you!

Don\'t forget your hardhat!

Also I don\'t suppose you have a stainless header knocking about?

[Lacey]

These are the sort of things I\'m going to be looking at replacing ASAP.

First and most important thing will be replacing the alloys as 1, they have Mitsubishi FTO wheels on at the moment, and 2, the wheels all round are perishing, so that\'s an important job to do before it goes on the road, so looking to pick up some not-expensive replacement alloys (preferrably OEM EGI or TII ones) with good rubber on to pass the MOT with later in the year and give safe driving.

Aside from that which won\'t be a cheap replacement, I\'m looking at replacing the following things.





Fixing the gear stick and replacing the black rubber whateveritis.



Hopefully replacing the center console housing as it\'s cracked all over the place and in terrible condition.



Replacing these broken side vends on the corners of the dash (as you can see, with a lot of the interior, somebody disgustingly sprayed the red plastic black, chances of a red OEM replacement are slim.)



(sorry for finger in picture, couldn\'t see the screen) All the trim is missing across the whole back of the dash - that\'s those long parts either side and the bit in the middle.



Again, more of the lovely red interior awfully sprayed black, have a whole replacement passenger door card but need a replacement drivers and passengers side handle.



More of the center plastic stuff that \'was\' red is now sprayed black, again the odds of me being able to restore it to it\'s original beautiful red interior is practically nothing, so I\'m debating sanding it down and spraying it properly.



As above, red interior sprayed black, looks absolutely terrible, and again the odds of replacing it with an OEM non-arsed-up red one are practically nothing.





Both the drivers and the passengers pillar cowlings are broken apart in two places each side, so might be looking to replace those, though it doesn\'t show too much so not too high on the priority list.



That\'s all for now, basically I just want to try and restore the beautiful red interior it once had :/ but the odds of me being able to (or affording to) do that aren\'t really worth thinking about, so will settle for whatever I can get, really.

[papercutout]

Something like thinners might work on some parts - door handle, glovebox lid and centre boxes as they\'re probably red plastic rather than painted red in the factory...?

But being able to find original red items will be very hard I think, I\'ve not seen it before at all. Mazda Rotary Parts or similar might be able to help?!

[Lacey]

Thanks for the suggestion

Also looking for spare FTP lenses, thinking about it!

[Lacey]

Since the red interior is pretty much irreplaceable as nobody else has it, I;ve decided to practically strip the car and break out the elbow grease.




This is gonna take a while..........