These turned up this week,
Ktec solid enigne mounts second hand, fire extinguisher that I got from work and some p-clips to tidy up some wires.
Quick release bumper off in about 90seconds.
Old engine mount split in two, always had a slight knocking from the engine mount but wasn't aware it was that f**ked untill Dan @ 519 told me
New engine mount, swapped out in about 15minutes. Also painted the cam cover bit whilst it was off.
Can also see my lovely AST top mounts too!
Next up was the gearbox mount, after pestering DannyR by text i soon realised i was doing it wrong.
Un mounted the whole battery tray and bracket to the gearbox, got a electric impact gun from my Dad's work and got it swapped over, havent got a picture of the old one but it was in a bad state also.
Gave it a quick spray which soon got coated in crap from my grubby little mits.
After that i decided I would spray the top of my engine as the whole thing was once painted by someone by brush with black. Tidied it up nicely
Can also see my new coolant bottle i got a few weeks back as the old one was weeping coolant.
I forget to get picture of it all back together. Just need to remove the nasty carpet at the back of the engine and fit something better.
Got my F1's back from a mate who had been borrowing them, ive decided in the future I will get them refurbed anthracite and run road tyres on them. Keeping the williams with the federals purely for track.
Mounted the fire extinguisher under the passenger seat, I also used the p-clips to hold the wires in place down the side of the car as i removed the plastic trim and sprayed it black (no pics of this)
Then did this
Pic of the car from a meet the other week
Car feels so good to drive now its all coming together! Really am in love with the little thing and cant wait for more track time to abuse it.
Also I agree with people about not fitting solid mounts to cars due to vibration, my car is pretty empty and basic so it doesn't bother me, but it was shaking abit whilst sitting at traffic lights.
Plans for the rest of the year.
Nurburgring in 20days.
Get another couple of track days in.
Refurb alloys anthracite with decent road tyres.
Get aluminium bonnet sprayed and fit aero catches, lose the slam pannel etc and a few other bits.
Maybe get a new front bumper to get sprayed at the same time as the clips are dead on mine, and i mounted my aero catches quite far back so it doesn't sit to well lol.
Get grill sprayed and wing mirrors sprayed.
Get front carbon door cards from the group buy. Fit manual windows at same time.
Safety devices 6 point cage.
Rear 3 poly carb windows.
Get the interior sprayed properly and lose extra weight.
Oil cooler.