Not updated this for a while as i've changed my mind a few times about what to do with the car.
After my last post about the bottom end knocking i decided i'd had enough of walking and getting lifts everywhere and that i was going to sell the parts off the car, put it back to standard, drop another engine in and sell it.
So i sold the OZ F1's, cage, flocked dash, wheel stud kit, Trophy Recaro's, Recaro Pole Position, Recaro Furious, cobra subframes, whiteline ARB, carbon splitter and Yozza race exhaust. I then got myself a Ford Puma, to get me around, and i began collecting standard parts for the car (seats, suspension, steering wheel).
Next job on the list was to sell the APD modified head and inlets and Schrick cams. I tried them on here and had no interest, i then put them on eBay a few times and had no interest (even at very low starting prices). So i decided that i'd rather not lose that much on the parts, and also i'd probably end up modifying another car anyway, so i decided to stick with what i know and keep it.
Just before christmas i found a garage to rent and moved the car, so that i could start getting it up and running again.in the new year. For the engine rebuild i'm relying on my brother's help as i wouldn't know where to start on my own.
This weekend is the first chance either of us have had to get going on it, this is how it's been left for the last few months
Before i moved it to the garage it had been sat in my brother's mate's yard with all the removed parts chucked in the back for nearly 18 months. So the first job yesterday was to chuck everything out, it's a real mess inside.
So the first job was to remove the driver's seat, carpets, door cards and steering wheel. That's all that happened on the inside this weekend. I'll be ordering a few bits i need tomorrow and hopefully i'll get the carbon doorcards in and the rest of the tar removed this week.
Then today my brother was around so we got the front locking wheel nuts off (brother's mate has lost the key !) and started removing some bits from the engine bay. Got quite a bit done so the next job for the two of us will be to get the engine out.
While the wheel nuts were being removed i used chrispy's hammer method on a spare set of headlights to make up some light covers. I then gave them a few coats of satin black paint on the inside.
They came out okay, just need to give the outside of the lense a good polish. I still need to cut out a hole for the cold air feed but i gave them a quick trial on the car.
And that's it for a couple of weekends now. With the evening's getting longer i'll hopefully be making progress during the week on this as i want to get back out on track this year.