05/03/06

It's been a while so thought I'd post some progress pictures, been quite busy!

I have removed the power brakes assembly + the ABS unit, along with all the brake lines, these have been placed in the bin! Going to get a bias pedal box assembly when funds allow.

Yesterday I stripped out the gearbox + centre diff oil coolers / pumps / lines, was a messy job, and I forgot to take any pics of these two jobs Not much to see anyway!

After that I finished of stripping the sound deadening on the gearbox tunnel. The past few weekends I have been stripping the sound deadening material from the rest of the interior, what a horrible job Will save £££'s in labour for when it eventually goes for the cage + paint though, so can't grumble too much. Still got to remove the residue, will use petrol / thinners for this, when I get around to it:




Floor is slightly "raised" from where the car has been jacked up / lifted on 2 poster ramps via the jacking point from underneath in it's life, these will be "fixed"







Found another bit of rot, luckily the seats will be mounted on bars when cage gets fitted:



Installed the bulkhead fittings, -8 JIC (splits into 2x -6 JIC, one for each fuel rail) for fuel supply, -6 JIC for fuel return (2 fittings on the right), and 2x -6 JIC (2 fittings on the left) for the power steering pump, which will be mounted in the passenger foot well:







Fitted the fuel pressure sensor straight into the FPR:





And also modified the remote oil filter housing, fitting the oil pressure sensor straight into it (before the filter), and fitting a -4 JIC fitting after the filter, this will be the oil feed for the turbo, so no need to use an aftermarket turbo oil filter:





This is where it will live:



There’s not much more I can really do to the car now, there’s the sound deadening in the boot + under the rear seat area to remove, the engine + gearbox to come out (when I have somewhere to put them), start removing the waxoil I put on under the car (that’ll teach me ), then I have got to save abit of cash and send it off to have a cage fitted + painted, so there won’t be any updates for a while, but my aim was to get the shell finished this year, so I’m on target for that, still had no joy finding a roof skin with no sunroof, so will probably leave the sunroof in, as a non functioning item, unless someone makes carbon fibre roof skins, hmmmmm