Hello guys,

Well were do i start.

Me and my girlfriend were really working our little socks off over the weekend to get the car finished and on the Essex RSOC stand at Trax on Sunday.

We got home from work on Friday with our work cut out, we had so much to do but there was no reason we could not achive it, the biggest job was to finish off the down pipe for the exhaust.

Well started working on the car at about 8pm on Friday and we worked right through till 2am Saturday morning.
I was then back up at 5am to get things finished off, nothing really major, just putting it back togeather, fit door mirrors, fit door panels, fit bonnet vents, and give it a quick tidy up ready for its MOT at 9am Saturday morning.

Come 8am all was done and it was time to start the car up and do some final checks, lights all working etc etc.
First flick of the switch it fired up , drove the car back to see what the 6 paddle was like and had a puddle of oil on the floor dam i'd not tightened the turbo oil return hose up ,
So jacked the car up, removed the started and tightened it up , all was well and with about 10 mins to spare.
But oh dear, someone up there really didn't want me to drive the car that day, rear wiper would not work, rev counter packed up, water temp gauge packed up, lost a wheel bolt (which turned up a few hours later) and when i drove the car the battery light was getting brighter and brighter

In the end i had to cut my losses and not drive to the MOT station, i'm such a failure,

I'm so gutted that me and Louise put in so much hard work and hour after hour to get it all ready and stumbled at the very last hurdle.

I will do a major update tonight with a load of photos of the (almost) finished car.

Still i always look on the bright side and i'm sure things happen for a reason, so while i get these bits sorted out i will continue to modify the car.
Oil cooler with remote filter etc to come this week

Thanks for listening.

Matt.