Punto (Mk2/2b) Mk2 Sporting Turbo

[Munkul]

Glad you all enjoy

I really miss the car. It had it all - power, youthful style, and comfort.

I'm using the s14 as a daily at the moment, and yes its faster, handles amazingly, but its uncompromising. It has rose-jointed suspension arms, locked diff, solid alloy diff and rear subframe bushes, urathane engine and box mounts, etc etc, it all adds up to make a great drift car and for fun, but for using every day, the harshness of everything gets boring very quickly

Hopefully once the engine is built I'll never want to sell again... or maybe just sell it and buy a bog standard vectra or something

 

[blu73]

As with many things, eventually you'll hanker after something else and often must part with a car you love in order to do so. Or you end up with lots of cars you hardly drive like me lol

 

[Gav VZR]

What an amazing car this is, i'm only on here a little while and just saw this now, i would love to do something like this with my punto if i had the time and money, my punto is the exact same colour

 

[Eklipze3k]

Disaster has struck

 

[JustAndy]

Just read it on pmk2. Very sad news indeed. Dont want to share anymore because its not for me to say tbh

 

[JackFi]

Just looked on pmk2

 

[ChrisUK]

Words can't express how I feel

 

[jip0]

 

[colinf1]

 

[blu73]

This has made me very very sad. It was literally my favourite mk2
Your not gonna leave us now are you Munkul :hug:

 

[JAM113]

this was an amazing mk2

 

[Rawb]

I just don't know what to say really.. I hope you enjoyed your final outing and really gave it some stick.

Holy ****. Just saw the pictures.. Absolutely devastating!

 

[RaulCarnahan]

Just seen the pics.
RIP.

 

[Munkul]

Suppose I havent updated this for a while...

Firstly, thanks for the kind messages.

The car got the new engine built up with the 1.4 internals, but standard con-rods. I had them shot-peened with the theory it would give them slightly more strength.
The new engine had all sorts of funky stuff done to it and it made 186bhp and 191lb-ft at only 0.8bar of boost! It still had a smokey turbo problem but once it was sorted, it was going to get a bigger exhaust and more boost etc and easily crack the 200bhp mark. So far it had seen less than 1500 miles.

Then this happened. I was coming home thursday night, i gave it some stick and it went bang, and caught fire.

this is what happened, I found out today: one of the con-rods sheared in HALF! And battered 2 holes either side of the block, and sent fire through the exhaust and back of the car.

The fire caught hold of the bumper and since my fire extinguisher was in the s14 I was helpless to do anything other than watch it go up in flames. It started to roll down a hill and nearly took out a stagecoach as well, when the handbrake cables melted!

This is the engine, you can see right through the other side

And no, I wont be getting anything from insurance for it

 

[Ziggy122]

its a shame

And not claiming on insurance is probably best way to be honest
Sure your out of pocket with the car/car modding
But you'll soon save up with the Insurance Not been claimed on etc etc

Means another punto to replace? or sticking to the drifter?

Ziggy

 

[blu73]

I am so gutted, you sound really quite philosophical about the whole experience.

At the end of the day, your OK, no-one got hurt which could've happened very easily.

RIP AmrT, gone but not forgotten!!

 

[Munkul]

cheers dude.

I'm a little upset, but not emotional about this, at the end of the day its just a lump of metal and plastic.
I can never replace this car (and I dont want to!) but I can get something else to drive around in....

Also like someone else said, better a glorious fiery death than being smashed up by a charver or rusting to death in a scrappy or something

 

[Vance]

Holy sheet

 

[Rawb]

I would be proud of what you had achieved with the car, with those figures I can only imagine it'd have been an animal.

Easily my favourite and probably the 'best' Mk2 Punto out there.

Getting a run about now?

 

[blu73]

a glorious fiery death - thats a great outlook! I look forward to seeing how the s14 comes along