SRowell's Stage 1 Diablo HDi Estate

[Eeyore]

Anyway getting back on track! Rear lights have been fly eyed. Not sure how long they will last or how long I will keep them on. It was almost impossible to do the entire light with one sheet so I left the black bit uncovered.




and today I set about fitting the boost gauge. Needed to make the hole a bit bigger to take the gauge so got the dremmel out and sorted that. Drove to grans where the 1.8 was and tried to pipe the boost gauge. Found the grommet for the bonnet catch but that was too tight. However then i saw my interior through another hole D: Poked the pipe through and sorted!

So it went in here...


Which came out here...


and ended up here!


The gauge mount needs a bit of trimming to fit the dash a bit better so Ill break out the dremmel tomorrow. Still unsure how to tap the manifold as I now have two nipple/outlet things to put in the pipe but i dont have a tapper big enough to make the threads D: Work stopped there and then I moved onto the strut brace. Unbolted it from the 1.8 and swapped the bolts over from car to car. of course the struts moved so I had to jack it up to realign the struts. One of the bolts just span on the estate but I managed to pull it out 2mm with molegrips and then hacksawed that off. Hopefully it will run fine with 2 bolts for a few months until i get new top mounts and coilovers

Anyway here is how it finished up.


Tonights plans are just to chillax doing a bit of stickerbombing on the steering coweling. Tomorrow Ill finish off fitting the boost gauge to the pillar and hopefully wire that up!