The car is now ready - after this update
I've been working a bit on it each night after work.
First up where new NON-performance discs and pads on the front. Matt complained the pedal was hard and he was right, although this appears to be a standard trait of the saxo's, I saw that the discs were pretty bad, but the pads almost new. For £50 I replaced them both with Mintex jobbers.
Then I thought I'd try my hand at installing some 5.1 brake fluid. Had to get the old man to explain what needed to happen and I've learnt that I can now bleed brakes. Learn something new everyday.
J20 bleed bottle FTW.
Slight issue with one of the rear nipples though - I snapped it, whoops. This was tightening it back up, so I hope I don't have to bleed them again.
I was pondering changing the plugs and gear oil, but to be honest, I think they're ok. Plugs are a year old and the gearbox seems fine. So just dropped the oil and a new oil filter.
er... but I forgot that its a 1.6 and was a bit hasty with the oil. Put the entire 5litre bottle in and then thought.... thats gotta be far too much for this little thing. I was right. FFS...
Had to drain a good 1.5 litres or so. But put it back in the bottle so the budget isn't shattered.
That was it for a day or so and then Len decided to sell the Cobra's he'd bought for a failed 206 project.
2 seats and 2 harnesses for under £130 - couldn't say no, even though they are classed as the hardest seats EVER.
A bit grubby:
Still had my sisters carpet cleaners so set about cleaning one of them.
Nice. That was after just doing the sides! The final bucket was black, no word of a lie. There are some scrubbers about, who obviously don't wash at all.
The finished article. Not bad.
So I then set about getting a least one subframe for it and some eye bolts for the harnesses. Now, I'm not afraid to admit that Google and Sax-p played a large part. People have done pretty much everything to Saxo's and just by googling Saxo seat bolt size, the top searches produce accurate answers! its such a piece of pi$$ to find answers to anything with these cars.
So I went to Larkspeed - who are still going. They are still in the same place in Leeds too. I remember going there when I was a 14 year old and tugging myself silly over some TSW venom's they had on show. Anyway, they had some harness eye bolts on the cheap and that was that. They bolted straight into the existing seatbelt holes. WIN.
The subframe was not as straightforward and after ebay searching and discussing potential purchases with 17 year olds on sax-p, I decided I was prepared to spend a bit of money on a couple of goodies I'd fancied for a while.
Demon tweeks had a subframe for £99 - slidey too - and I bought an OMP Trecendo suede wheel and boss kit whilst I was at it. Delivered next day, can't complain.
Fitted them both and we're ready.
I'm not doing anything else until its been on track now.
Would like to refresh the gear linkage's, but it'll have to wait.