Top mounts:
I got some eccentric top mounts from Brom @ Zoo a while ago, they are thinker and have a proper metal bearing fitted, not like the ones you get from Rally design (as Brom showed me!)
The kit came with some spacers:
But I saw what can happen to the struts if you use them, basically the threaded part of the strut can snap at the base as the threaded section is quite thin compared to the rest of the strut:
Brom said this is quite common when fitting them this way and showed me a box full of dampers that this had happened to.
This also left me with another problem, I was left with a 19.5mm gap between the top spring cup and the bottom of the spacer:
The Leda’s have a recess machined in the strut which is meant to fit inside the bearing, unfortunately they were very fractionally to large to fit in the bearing. I was going to have a new bottom spacer machined up which took up the gap and gave some strength to the threaded section, but then a mate asked how big the difference between the recess and the bearing was, I measured it and it was tiny, so I got out the emery cloth and set to work on the strut, after about 15 minutes the bearing now fits over the strut nicely with no play whatsoever, pain in the RS but the best solution I think:
Pedal box:
I got this pedal box from TF a few months ago on e-bay, when I got it it was looking very used, so I stripped it down to component form, took the old paint off, welded some plates to the bottom of the arms so I could easily mount the new pedals I had got for it, then primed, painted, and sealed them all up:
I did the same for the throttle pedal too, I had to modify the pedal that cam with the kit as it was huge, so I cut it down and filed it so it looked neat:
Paint:
The car is currently in the paint shop being prepped, engine bay and interior are being painted black, with the roll cage bars being done in silver to make them stand out abit, they are too nice to hide away. I’m going to get them to do something with the front wings so I can run 235/40x17’s on the front too.
I only have a couple of pics of the engine bay prep, hopefully they will do abit more work on it soon
Well that’s it for now, just have to wait for the paint shop to finish up and then I can start putting things back together.