Better to be born lucky than rich...
Having got the car delivered from North Wales, at the expense of my previous employer, I have now had chance to have a good poke around it and write a jobs list. A list which is growing rapidly!
There is a bit of tin-worm on the car. It definitely needs a pair of sills and a new bonnet as both are rusty. And the front cross-member is rotten but this was due to be strengthened anyway as the sump guard will be mounted to it. Luckily I continue to be quite spawny when it comes to acquiring new parts.
Items I have added to my haul recently are:
OMP six point bolt in roll cage - £50
Set of Bilstein dampers with gravel springs - £300
Gravel spec’ alloy sump guard, with reinforcing ribs and mounting bar - £100
Electric 4 litre plumbed in fire extinguisher kit - £20
Pair of new sills - £10
Super S front bumper - £0
A sheet of nice thin carbon fibre - £0
A sheet of kaylan mud flap material - £0
Some bumper mesh - £
Ebay Finds
New Alloy mud flap brackets
New Momo steering wheel boss - £3.20!
Three alloy mountain bike bottles and cages to use as spare fluid bottles
Seat belt cutting tool
A tool roll
Air horns
Warning triangle
Smaller washer bottle to mount inside the car
Some grip tape and duel lock
Silver tape
About three hundred CD’s I never knew I wanted
Most of the large items have come from friends but the rest are solely down to browsing Ebay upon my return from the pub. Never a good mix but I appear to have been quite restrained and focussed!
I have made a start on the grim task of removing the sound deadening and unwanted brackets from inside the car. I have only removed three-quarters of the sound deadening from the interior but I now have a bag full of the material and it weighs about 4kg! I will probably scrape off the worst of the under seal beneath the car but under the arches looks solid enough so it will just be painted over.
Having removed the rear bumper, I also took off the rear bumper bar. I had intended to trim it down to lighten it but I think I will now make a couple of small brackets instead. This will mean I can mount the rear bumper using four easily accessible allen head bolts and some anchor nuts. It will make life far easier when it comes to washing the car following an event and for fitting a spare bumper when I have knocked one off.
Next jobs to tackle:
Finish scraping off the under seal and sound deadening
Finish removing unwanted brackets
Fit new sills
Repair and strengthen front cross-member
Seam weld body shell
Seal holes in body shell
Cut a million circles out of the roll of silver tape to cover the holes in the body shell
