1993 Thema Turbo 2.0ie 16v LX S3 from far away

[semecristian]

Well , i'll start from the beggining, and present the car as i did copple of years ago on a romanian forum, with same comments and pictures, cause i think it's more complete that way.
So, at the beggining i didn't know much about the car, just the way it went like a train with steroids... Soon i saw the similarities with the Thema Ferrari, and thought it's one of those with engine changed.. And so on, until i discovered what a rariti it is.
Because the taxes are sky-high here, i can't go on strets with it, i only take it to the yearly drag races that we organise on our airport.
So i went on testing a cone sport air filter, and stuff, and then looke at the very very old Pirelli P7000 all season that squeeqed in 1st 2nd and third gear.. not too grippy.

[semecristian]

Cople of details about the car.. it has about 115.000 Km now, and when i got it it had been layng in a shed, the old guy didn't use it anymore cause it was too powerfull for him to drive it.. so it had been standing there for quite some years.
So , cause i was working at a auto service at that time, (in 2007) i took it with me and started working on it little by little, when i had some spare time.

[semecristian]

Next, while being close to me, i started the work.. a little here, a little there... I let the pictures talk. I worked for about 4 houres to get her shiny.

[semecristian]

Then, i changed the spark plugs, put in sone BERU ( for about 4 months... then i put NGK IRIDIUM IX), new leads, new belts CONTITECH , fix the servo oil leak, you can see the "effect" it had on the belts, and the fuel filter that was full of mud..New alpine stereo.. a bit of problem with the wires, they were cut( old radio got stolen at some point).
After that, engine cover and rims.. rims were very hard to refurbish, did it all by myself, in the end they came through perfectly s you can see.

Oh, and let's not forget the little sound of the blowofvalve..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAiO5NMFnk

[tom]

hi nice work btw, i was wondering how u did the alloy wheels i need to do the same,

did u use paint stripper? or just sand paper?

please could you tell me all the products you used and i will try to get mine as good as yours ha ha

thanks tom