Right then, some progress to bring us upto date.
Started stripping the car down. Doors off, boot off, windows out, sunroof out etc. The seats have already been sold so they'd gone previously:
I'd bonded the rear polycarbs in before which caused a bit of hassle for taking them out. They needed to come out because of my plans, which include painting the interior again. The window came out easy enough, but it left all the adhesive still on the shell, so I scraped that off with a stanley blade or 2.
This left a bit of a mess, so that'll have to be touched up a wee bit and I'll use fixed window rubber surrounds next time:
The next stage is quite drastic. I've never been 100% happy with how the cage fitted in the car. The OMP footplates were appalling and I wanted to re-do them. To do this, the cage obviously needed to come out. With it being a weld in cage I had to cut it. Not ideal but there we go. Whilst it's out I'll be adding some more tubing in various places. More on that another time.
A few more cuts and..... gone.
This allowed me to set to work on the footplates. As you'll see, I have a fair bit to do and plenty of grinder discs to get through:
Used to look like this:
Anyway, that was now out and put to one side.
I had a re-shuffle of the garage and tidied up a bit, and moved the car into the middle so I can get at both sides easier.
Just to show how light the rear end of the car is, note the position of the jack in this photo:
Then I took the engine and gearbox out. I'll be fitting a new 'box over the winter as mines been crunching nicely into 3rd for the past few months. Ideally I wanted a 172cup box, but I've got hold of a Ph1 172 cheap enough so I'll see how I get on with that.
And thats pretty much it for now.
