I have been making more progress with the car. The photos are lacking for this update though.

I basically found a few minor issues with car and set about rectifying them.



I never thought I would pay a small fortune for a parcel shelf...

I also found a pic of the car from years ago! It doesn't look all that different from these days truth be told :



The breather system on my car left little to be desired truth be told. As a result I obtained a Bailey breather tank . It is not helping the bling situation under the engine bay but it will certainly help the breathing!:



I have never been a fan of the cambelt being so exposed on ZVHs and so I purchased a cambelt cover. Yes it will require cleaning up but it should come up well. Making the lower half fit will be fun however.



Furthermore a friend of mine spotted that some of the silicone hoses under the engine bay were not what they could be. After much thought I order a replacement hose set to replace the unreinforced silicone hoses.



The keen eyed shall see that I also obtained an RS1600i steering wheel. Whilst this car will look like a stock(ish) RST externally I have always been a fan of the RS 4 spokes and when this one came up at a price I could not refuse it had to be bought .

Finally, I dealt with the drivetrain of the car. Before the car was stored it handled rather interestingly and it did not really grip all that well. I guess 10 year old Toyo T1-Ss would not help and neither would positive camber on the rear wheels. Oh, did I mention that one of the rear dampers was leaking.

The first thing to do was to remove the old dampers and to send them off to be rebuilt:




After the refurb they did not look all that different to be honest! The car however did drive quite a bit better, with the rear end being less wayward than previously.



Part of that was probably down to the camber being corrected to a more pragmatic standand courtesy of these:



Finally, the car received some new tyres. These tyres seem to be stirring up a bit of a debate but on my brief and initial impressions it is a case of so far so good especially considering that I have only driven it in the wet with them on (a crime for an RST I know!).




So far however these tyres seem to be the bees' knees without too many side effects of them being a DOT R compound. Dot not get me wrong here they are noiser than a normal tyre, but not like a Toyo R888. If these NS-2Rs end up being great in the dry then it will be a result. At the moment they are surprisingly stable in the dry .