Finally lost my marbles

[MEL]

How longs a piece of string?



This is the 16x9 -4 wheels on standard rear axle/driveshafts. If i had the standard front and rear setups my wheels would stick about 37mm further out, front about 28/29mm further out. Fortunately, and just to make things easier the front setup has been adapted to run boxter brembos (still need to squeeze a 13 front subframe and power steering in) and the rear is an ovlov 960 turbo setup - the rear hub face sitting almost in line with the arch. The time will depend on how much work will be need to make the wheels fit

Mechanically everything is there or planned already, body work its all there or done already, I have the interior which will need some fiddling. I just need to reaquaint myself with the long list of misc bits I will need as well

[p.nicholas]

That’ll be a lovely daily

[MEL]

Decided the best way forwards with the electrics was a new loom rather than fcuking around with the nearly 60yr old original bastardised loom



Loom from https://www.autosparks.co.uk/

Even have full central locking system including boot release from https://www.ilmotorsport.de/ which will marry up perfectly with the Cobra Cat1 alarm/immob this is getting.

Just need to source a decent sound system now.

[p.nicholas]

Nice to see this moving forward.
Was the loom reasonable?

[MEL]

Nice to see this moving forward.
Was the loom reasonable?

Loom is the deluxe kit car loom with added radio wiring, just shy of £300 which I thought reasonable. Saves days of messing around more importantly.

[p.nicholas]

Bargain, I’d hate to think what’ll cost with the 200 loom

[MEL]

Can use the same loom, will just need minor adaptation to account for electronic gubbins to be added on.

[green_rs13]

makes sense to buy an already built loom, when i rewired mine i used a prebuilt kit car fuseboard that you then had to run all your own wires and it was a right pain.

whole car looks nice.

[MEL]

16th November

I R Excite

[p.nicholas]

Finish date?

[MEL]

Definitely nearer the end than the beginning now. Maybe ready for paint before Christmas but that's probably pushing things a bit much.

Anyway, 10am Saturday morning


Midday Satruday


4pm Saturday evening - engine and box back back in for mocking up steering/front suspension etc.


Spent a good few hours digging bits out of various storage areas to start making lists of missing parts/new parts required etc.

Monday morning and Dal is all about that tease!


I still haven't actually seen these in the flesh, just pictures and the boxes all piled up (owned since June 2021).

More teasing, basic mockup to understand how much the rear axle needs to be cut down.



Decided to make some minor changes, instead of going for a full power steeting/axle setup from S13/volvo 240 etc I am just going to go down the electric power steering route to save a lot of time and money. This also makes things easier to the front suspension setup.

[docwra]

This is going to be awesome .......... if I live long enough to see it finished

[MEL]

You and me both mate

[p.nicholas]

I assume slight stretch to the arches?

[MEL]

I assume slight stretch to the arches?

Arches will be cut, pulled out and new metal welded in.

[p.nicholas]

Still a ways to go then