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Not too much exciting stuff has been going on, its just been getting used 😀
Made a slight upgrade to the front speakers, Morel 5.25″ components in place of the coaxial alpines. massive improvement! used the old factory tweeters and a mount for the new tweeters. The dash speakers being tweeters and not coaxials meant i could turn up the bass to the door speakers, so its a much fuller sound now and works well with sub.
Then at the beginning of June i took it to its 1st show! registered too late to put it in the show itself but got ‘classic car parking’ which had some very nice cars in. BUT! on the way in i pulled up by one of the organisers and moved into the show proper 😀 On the Sunday i parked with the Mk2 owners club. Really do recommend the show, very good and some amazing cars of all marquesAttachments:
YES!! stickers have arrived and they are on! (thanks to wife and child for the application)
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to monitor this engine a bit better, i wanted a EGT gauge. instead of the usual 52mm gauge i found a company called zada-tech who do OLED screens of various sizes that can run various senders. I’ve gone for the smallest one, once i get a switch hole blank i can cut a hole in that and mount in my steering cowling like as in the pic below
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yep looks like we are!
1st couple pics are the rot behind the front shock towers, i have new sections of chassis to weld in here. Next job was windows out and carefully unpick the material from the walls. i’ve managed to track down the same stuff, so want to use the old as a template. It’s pretty much ready to be picked up now, just waiting for my slot to open up. Also waiting for my other garage to be made watertight, likely the new yeqr now.. so the Country can go in there and free up the garage its in. Then i can get on with building up the engine and gearbox and also freshen up the fuel tank with new roll over valves and breather hosesAttachments:
front carpets out, found some nice rot in the front step. thankfully i have new genuine steps here ready to go on.
Removed the insulation that was above the fuel tank, some rust but nothing drastic. Also got the front heater core out, im looking at replacing this with a air con unit. Expensive but worth it for those summer months abroad.Attachments:
made a start on removing the front diff and associated stuff. Annoying, greasy dirt. in your eye job..
got one drive shaft out, unbolted the other so its ready and removed the ARB.
Plus one pic of the front brake conversion, Audi A6 312mm vented discsAttachments:
interior slowly coming out.. running gear also being removed. black lumpy pic is rot on the chassis where the front shock tower attaches, the later pic with the grey chassis parts are the replacements.. gearbox, rear driveshafts, front to rear coolant pipes, propshaft, freshwater tank, fuel tank all come out.
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The new engine was thankfully in very good condition, and could have probably gone in ‘as is’, but.. new bearings all round, new rings, lifters ect. Injectors rebuilt with bigger nozzles and turbo rebuilt as well, with a couple tweaks.. Also a new dual mass flywheel was used
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