Introduction to my new GTO!

General Newbie
#2

Hi welcome to the club

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#3

Hi and welcome to GTOUK, nice little project there

I used to use a ctek charger , great bit of kit , if your on facebook look up car care direct , chap called Dave naxton well known in the scene runs it

Regards

Craig :grinning:

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#4

Yeah agree with craig here. Most of us use ctek from Dave. He owns a Gto himself.
These cars will certainly give you some good knowledge in stripping down and rebuilding… Then cutting your knuckles, banging your head, thowing your tools and learning to swear properly lol. But treated with respect they are amazing! Welcome to the club.

Would be good to get to the AGM so you can get a good feeling about who we all are and what the club is all about

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#5

Welcome on board nice to have You here, the right person for this kind of job :+1:

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#6

Welcome along thete is a huge amount of info in these pages…your in the right place and now legal to drink…get the alcohol in… Your going to need it :wink:
Dave :sunglasses:

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#7

Welcome to the club. You passed the first test, first post had a pic of the car. :grinning:
Jensen

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#8

Hello and welcome and good luck

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#9

Hello and welcome, the right colour for the car :grin:

Terry :sunglasses:

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#10

I thought Blue was the color Terry :grin:

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#11

Ooooo noooooo, can’t be blue, I’m a poet and didn’t know it. (you wouldn’t think I’d say stuff like this at my age) :joy:

Terry :sunglasses:

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#12

You never too old to say …:grin:

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#13

Thanks for the kind words and advice guys, I found the car care direct page and website and the aforementioned battery conditioner. Finding the GTO UK group is paying off already! :wink:

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#14

At 19 you are either very brave or do not yet quite understand what you are in for with a car like the GTO/3000GT.

Most of them out there are potential money pits - especially if you are going to modify something that the previous owner is ‘looking to get rid’.

My advice is to let go of the racing engineer mind set and stick to basics and making most of what you got. You don’t quite have the dream budget or facilities to race convert a likely shagged road car for the best part needs an oil change and new coilpack - let alone a fancy dry carbon canard predicted to give you 14 kg of negative lift.

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#15

Welcome aboard mate, take your time to troll the the sections, you will find GTOUK a major asset owning one of these motors.

Steve

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#16

Look forward to seeing how it progresses , there have been some amazing cars put together by folks in this club by off the cuff conversations or ideas that they have had , without having the dream and taking the risk a lot wouldn’t have materialised :sunglasses:

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#17

Must be my Yorkshire accent … or something…but that does’t rhyme @just_cool :yum: “must try harder at being a poet” 1000 times please Terry :grin:

Tracie :tulip:

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#18

best type of car to learn about mechanics on lol .ive stripped and rebuilt one myself and ive no got a clue haha

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#19

Hahahaha, bet you got an ‘ow bist’ sticker on the works van, just couldn’t see Stevie letting you put it on the Hulk :joy: :joy: :joy:
Terry :sunglasses:

#20

Yes the complex nature of all the electronics on the car was what gave me pause at first before Merc and Red Bull told me how much they valued it. The guy I bought it off was somebody my dad knew and no longer drove the car and wanted it to go to somebody who would get more use out of it rather than because it had lots of problems. It’s been checked over by two mechanics in the family and it’s in remarkably good shape and has been well looked after, slight bit of rust around the drain holes which I’m going to clean up and weld a new plate over though. I do realise that for my first project car it’s going to be one that needs a lot of looking after and a lot of money spent on it.

I appreciate your advice though and it’s always useful to be brought back down to earth every once in a while so the dreams don’t become too outlandish. Engines coming out over easter so I can get started on the front end, so we’ll see how confident I’m feeling after that haha! :slight_smile:

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#21

Good for you and enjoy the car, lots to learn but great experience for you finding out.
Good luck with college, we have one member involved in F1 and welcome to the club.

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