Well now the weathers improving and with summer coming time to finally get round to doing all the little jobs the cossie was requiring as i just couldnt be bothered over winter

with it being easter weekend and with fuck all to do it was best time to drag the cossie into the garage and crack on.1st on the list was replace the knacked rear spax shocks and replace them with a nice set of konis




bloody ell' these have seen better days



after putting the konis on took the car round the block for a little drive and the improvement is fantastic feels a hell of alot better driving over speed humps etcAlso before i took the car out i changed the rotor arm and dizzy cap for new items in the hope i can sort out the poor cold start running issues as from cold its running like a sack of shit,well after fittin these went out and at low revs the car deffo feels alot better and more smooth so fingers crossed moving in the right direction

thats all i got round to doing today next on the list is replace the tappets and sort out the bloody oil leak ive got which seems to be coming from the oil presure switch area so bought a new one and will be replacing that too along with a dam good steam clean underneath!

thats all for now heres afew random pics i took

 

Looking good Gaz, love the rouse splitter
As for the oil leak i thought that was standard on cosworth's, lol. If its not leaking its out of oil

 

looking good mate

 

Looks good, carbon copy of mine! the front splitter is the way forward!

 

like the jack your usein lol
remember this when you picked it up from dans
i was gonna have this car then before you took it

 

Looks nice on them rims,nice reg too.

 

done some more work today finally got round to changing the oil pressure switch was abit fiddly but never the less bloody done now lol,didnt run the car up but fingers crossed that is where my oil leak was coming from suppose i will find out soon enough.Tomorrow hopefully crack on with the tappets!

 

very nice motor

 

todays progress



oil leak that seems to be coming from oil presure switch area



seen better days so a new one needed



underside fucking soaked in oil


quick steam clean after fitting new switch



fingers crossed its done the trick! will find out when i run her up

 

looking good gaz, what else you got planned

 

didnt do much on the car the last 2 days but today removed the morettes and gone back to std headlamps! I fancied a change






what do you think? i actually like it now deffo growing on me



left them without the wipers and reckon it looks more smooth at the front now.

 

no major mods really just sorting some issues the car needed so i can enjoy it more next major thing to do is sort these dam tappetswas hoping to do them over the weekend but it didnt happen

 

good work mate

 

looks better on the standar lamps! tried calling you over the weekend to see if you wanted to sort your tappets you Toby!

 

Looking good mate looking good

 

my tappets could do with a change, i'll see how you get on, before i do mine!

 

Top work mate.I had an oil leak from the oil pressure switch.I could actually see the oil running down the sump.I like the standard lights better than the twins fella.

 

big thumbs up 4 changing the headlamps and the splitter looks good
just wondering if yur the bloke i bought some cloth rear seats off of think i reckonize the car in yur sig great work by the way

 

Great thread, gonna follow this. Looks much better with the standard headlamps

 

Looks great back on standard lamps, should do something with the foglight surrounds, maybe black or something...not sure how that would look though.

Keep it up

Ginge

 

standard head lights all the way! looking good

 

Good work Gaz,

It's good to get the little jobs out the way.

 

Nice work m8,looks better on the standard lights imo.

 

As above looks miles better with the headlamps i hate morrets on saph's

 

thanks for the comments guysyeah have to agree does look better now back to std lamps

 

was gonna attempt it over easter but bottled it will drag you over to lend a hand lol.When can we crack on with it andy?

 

looking good,standard lights is the way to go on a sapph

 

Looking good


Brian

 

this week in the evenings been doing some little jobs on the old girl,the thing thats bugged me for ages is all the so called black trims had faded over time like door mirror units,door handles,scuttle panel and rear door triangles.So i thought i would give them a fresh coat of satin black paint

heres how the plastics were looking heres one of the door mirrors




while the n/side one is drying heres the drivers side which i had done yesterday



looks so much better now it back to black



thats all for today as i ran out of paint

 

much better gaz, what was the process and what paint did you use ? i did this on mine niot to long ago and its peeling already

 

Much better m8.

 

just used a good old halfords spray can remains to be same if it peels

 

along side the painting ive also managed to pick up full set of ambers and 88 spec rear lights.



will be keeping the smoked and clear lights also so i can change around when the mood takes me lol

 

Scotch the black down it wont peel then

 

Looking good mate give as bell if you need a had Steve

 

been doing some more little jobs on the car gave the rear door quarter trims a fresh coat of paint as they had vaded over time and removed the small sapphire logo and replaced with cosworth logo





next up was the scuttle panel i had a spare one in garage left over from my previous saph so also gave that a fresh coat of paint.This is how it looked before dull with polish over spill etc



spare one painted up




now fitted



just need to colour up the 3 scuttle screw caps and jet washers before installing them.

 

you have pm mate.

 

looking good mate

 

looking good mate ,same wheels as i had on me cof scooby

 

your turning into a right bufty gaz you wait till after tomorrow for my upgrades paying a visit to a1 in the morning to get some stuff done on mine