Its been a while since Ive done some decent updates as I've been busy with other parts of life as you do and also when you work on the car you just want to crack on and forget about taking pictures as its just slows you down. Also the fact I take my pictures with my iPhone which is a mission as my phone will not sync to my PC so I have send 5 pictures at a time to my email and then from my email I upload them to photobucket and then upload them to here..
so probably best I dig out a proper camera in the future. any way here you go:
To keep you guys updated and where Im at Ive been working on this project in drib and drabs over weekends for the the last two years and building it up from a shell. Ive had everything chucked at me including rust, mould, cracked windscreen, flat batteries, incorrect parts or poorly made parts thanks to certain suppliers that cant seem to make a pair of flipping matching indicators grrrrr....
I am now at the stage of having the entire car repainted in the original 727 capsicum red. I am just waiting on the painter to give me the go ahead. whilst in the mean time I am currently tieing up any loose ends and making the changes I want to make to the car before I make it my daily.
So first off I put some GAZ coilovers on as Ive had these in the past and they a great bit of kit for the money.
and I replaced the poverty spec that was on the car : standard shocks on apex springs
I then Set about sourcing some brand new headlights for the car and after discovering that euro car parts make all the parts I jumped at the chance to have them only to be told after a week of waiting for them they no longer had them even thought their website stated in stock grrrr... so after I re ordered else where I received just the indicators great you think, NOPE they didn't match and one was a tint of green with a pattern to the lens and the other looked clear with no pattern and look like a lexus lens.
after weeks of hunting finally JAYAR car parts really helped me out and I explained the situation and they found me a matching pair finally.
NEW FRONT END SETUP:
also needed a grill as I didn't have one on the car before:
OLD vs NEW
quick interior shot: ignore the damp traps
lol its been a very wet winter....
I then went on the hunt for a new front bumper for the car as the original has had a hard life and somehow both the front bumper mounts had been cut clean off:
So with the help of my father in law and some 3D magic we designed a new bracked based on the broken one and it works a treat. Its also strong and better made than before. And its bright yellow bonusss
Getting it in position and trial fitting before I bond it down for life
and left to dry
I also got my aero catches fitted and put back on the original hinge brackets and saftey wire stay.
Because the car didnt have any carperts I bought some base black and red piping mats but found that they skid to much on the bare metal so I thought I would Evo stikking some Anti slip mat to the back of the front car mats to help prevent this.
and also while the bumper was off I wanted to get my foglights pre mounted to prevent damage to the paint afterwards and I sourced the only set that would fit in the original holes in the bumper and It was a pair of Ring mircoline halogens with covers that I more importantly wanted to protect them from the elements and stones.
