Caddyrages truck, now smoothing bay

Haha, yeah i thought billy might like the lastest tailgate

Did you see on caddy forum someone was interested in buying a tailgate off you, not knowing the white 1 is mine haha

i love rust

Did a 4 hour+ trip to grimsby and back last night to collect this

2 litre 9A 16v engine along with a box of gubbins including Brand new head bolts, cambelt, 2x head gaskets, inlet/exhaust gaskets, plugs and valve stem seals.
Should've saved my money to get a custom exhaust made but i could'nt resist lol.
Going to build this up and connect it to a 16v box i have

lol thats going to be rapid!

joe has skills with the brush

sweeeet she will be rather potent with the old 9a in mate my mk2 was bloody quick enough let alone what it will be like in a caddy. Are one of those gaskets the ABF steel one? If not dont bother with them, ebay them and get the steel one its a worthwhile upgrade. Also dont forget to put a KR inlet cam in the head if it still has 9a cams while your there bossnig.

Orrrrr put a spacer plate between those gaskets and bolt a snail on

foooking hell lee you dont hang about. found one a day after we was talking about it! good find

No i dint get a metal gasket tom but it dont matter, i'll use the 1 i have for now then swap to metal when i pull it back out again over the winter.

1 gasket is for 2L and other is a 1.8 type that came in a set with the other bits.

The head may have had the cam swapped already but will check before i build anyway.

Yeah it should be uber rapido lol, it is with the 1.8 and thats with it needing a slight adjustment to timing and a blowing exhaust made up of a Ashley 4 branch into a mk1 gti middle then into original skinny caddy back box lol

Going to tidy up the paint on the block, clean the head then see how she goes from there.
Long term, i'll send the head off for port/polish, find some cams and aim to get 200bhp

Keeping it old skool or factory look so No snails for me thank you muchly

curtis_caddy wrote:

foooking hell lee you dont hang about. found one a day after we was talking about it! good find

Yeah lol

Been looking for a while tbh, just that they fetch silly money and 2L corrado's that come up are too nice to break.

sweeet, use the 2.0 gasket then cause i think the 1.8 one is slightly smaller i cant remember now lol. If you need to set your timing up you know ive got a strobe down here you can borrow any time you want mate. Yeah that exhaust must be restricting it a bit, you going to get a custom one made eventually?

Tiz wrote:

sweeet, use the 2.0 gasket then cause i think the 1.8 one is slightly smaller i cant remember now lol. If you need to set your timing up you know ive got a strobe down here you can borrow any time you want mate. Yeah that exhaust must be restricting it a bit, you going to get a custom one made eventually?

Yeah course i using the 2L gasket lol, i'll sell the 1.8 gasket.

I have a strobe mate, just aint been arsed to do it lol. Was going to sort it when doing other bits in the bay.

I'll be getting a custom exhaust done when funds allow, got a mates stag due in cardiff this month which is gunna be costly haha

I'll do my best to knock something up for time being

if you wanna knock something up i have my ramp for another couple of weeks then its going so if you wanna come make use of it before it goes give me a holla. Plus i have a few bits of 2.5" stainless pipe laying around you could have cheap if you need it.

I'll bare that in mind, cheers tom

looking forward to seeing the rusted letters lee

MarkGTX wrote:

looking forward to seeing the rusted letters lee

They've started to go mate.

I'll probs leave the daily tailgate on for tommorrow night rather than swap for my new one. You'll see it then

Pic of how my new engine looks at the mo


Block painted with heat resistant satin black
Head cleaned and wire wooled the mating surfaces. KR inlet fitted.
All torqued up and ready for the rest of the gubbins to be bolted on

looking good terrance

Looks like i'll be swapping the engines over sooner than i planned.

She over heated and stalled a few times in heavy traffic today whilst going to huntingdon and then onto mvdelopments.
Mounting kerbs on the A14 is not something i wanna be doing again, especially when i rolling on splitties . Thankfully, by being careful, i avoided damage

All was ok on the way home as traffic was moving fairly well.

It wont be an hard job to solve the problem but i dont see the point in fixing the prob to then pull it all out again lol

May aswell do it once when the 9A is in

sounds good fella it did look good at the meet the other day

Lupton_20vt wrote:

sounds good fella it did look good at the meet the other day

Thanks mate. Probs be starting the strip down later so i can get some of the parts painted.

Pic's as i go

what will it be after the 9a? 1.8 t?

this thing is gonna fly with teh 9A!!

leaving newmarket meet the other week i couldnt belive how quickly you disapeard haha

Lupton_20vt wrote:

what will it be after the 9a? 1.8 t?

Too much money and not 'Old skool' enough for me mate. This valver will be the last engine, it'll just be tweeked as time goes

billybug wrote:

this thing is gonna fly with teh 9A!!

leaving newmarket meet the other week i couldnt belive how quickly you disapeard haha

Yeah i do enjoy the caddy billy, be sad to take it off the road tbh as its soo fun.

Only blitzed by you joe and matt last week due to joe clouding me with soot!! lol

hahaha nah you were just showing off

billybug wrote:

hahaha nah you were just showing off

Ok then

I just have so much fun in it mate. Not good on fuel though so i've calmed down

CaddyRage wrote:

Lupton_20vt wrote:

what will it be after the 9a? 1.8 t?

Too much money and not 'Old skool' enough for me mate. This valver will be the last engine, it'll just be tweeked as time goes

billybug wrote:

this thing is gonna fly with teh 9A!!

leaving newmarket meet the other week i couldnt belive how quickly you disapeard haha

Yeah i do enjoy the caddy billy, be sad to take it off the road tbh as its soo fun.

Only blitzed by you joe and matt last week due to joe clouding me with soot!! lol

how rude, its not soot its black smoke, im sure theres a difference tunnel videos next meet at the ace lee