So about a week back on the road after doing the box and an oncoming learner picks up a rock about 3x the size of a tennis ball in their wheel and pings it across the road at me... ??? sourced a headlight already but waiting for breakers to be open tomorrow to hear back about a nearside iceberg silver wing at “not eBay prices”.
I’ve put the cars downtime to good use for some housekeeping and prepped the car for the new parts. removed the carbon canister (just waiting for a one way valve for the fuel tank breather), the acoustic valve that was just sitting anyway as I’ve got the ktec induction kit on, rear wiper delete, put the front wipers back in their spigot, whipped the sound deadening off the bonnet for extra dephaser noise ? (just kidding its not bad yet, only get noise on super hot days), paintstripped the ratty old rattlecan paint off the grill, whipped the fog lights out too although there’s no weight in them but I’m going to get a velocity stack inlet off the near side fog light opening so I can run ducting up to the induction kit not that it probably needs it really. Deleted the headlight washers too, going to get some of those push fit plugs to blank them off. Yeah done a few wee things anyway.
Going to make sure the scuttle drains are clear and reseal the scuttle panel as some monkeys used masses of weird black putty previously and the clips are missing.
Think I plan on pulling the ac compressor and piping etc out and leaving the pump that’s obviously on the belt for now, the compressor is hanging loose in front of the radiator anyway and there’s no gas in it. Planned on deleting the ac when the timings getting done. Not due for about 15k and the belts less than 5yr old. Undecided which route to go with the delete though.
