Now caged, vented bonnet also fitted.
Spent a few more hours on the old girl.
Front end is now ready to fit, bought 2 new tca's and new inner tca polybushes. Brakes and hubs have been stripped, cleaned, painted and put back together. Gave the anti roll bar a lick of paint to freshen it up also.
Before
After
I have also made a start on stripping the sound deadening off the floors. Ive done it before to the red hatch and its a horrible job, ive managed the boot area so far. Heating it up and scraping it off, then scrubbing it with white spirit/ brake cleaner. Its getting there, ive got a set of aerocatches on order which should be here tomorrow, she should be mostly finished by the end of the month because a big group of us are going to southend on the 1st december.
Spent the past 2 weekends on the saph, and pretty much got most of the big jobs done.
Stripped out the old front suspension, hubs, brakes, tca's and arb.
Had big issues using the 4x4 arb, i couldnt get the tca in on one side.
It altered the tracking slightly lol
So i dug out a polybused 2wd cossie arb that ive had kicking about for years, with the help of a ratchet strap and a couple of mates i finally managed to get it all together. so she is now running 4x4 hubs and tca's, cossie front brakes and gaz coilovers, also a full polybush set.
This weekend i decided to get the fitting of my aerocatches over and done with.
Pinned the slam panel and drilled a hole for the pin in the bonnet. Got the outline of the catch and scratched it into the bonnet, then i attacked it with a grinder.
Fitting the other side
All done
Then i had a play with the coilovers, and decided to slam the old girl.
I also fitted bonnet pins to the front bumper to make it easier when loading the car onto trailers/trucks.
If i get time tomorrow night i will weld the diff, still loads to do but she's getting there
New headlights
Tracking sorted
Typical view of my road lol
And time to do the clutch
Box out and cleaned up.
Had to replace both rear calipers as they were sized solid, fitted new discs and pads at the same time.
Cage has now gone as it was too impractical and the interior is going back in.
Fingers crossed it should be ready for the road friday morning.