25-07-2013, 11:21 PM
Well that was a 14 hour car day...
took 2 hours to get the wishbone nut and bolt sorted out and the lower strut brace is now on. However now that I can drive it then engine keeps knocking on it so that was the worlds biggest waste of time. Hopefully if it knocks it enough itll bend it a bit so it stops knocking.
Then I decided to sort out the mexican wave front bumper. Took the entire slam panel off and replace it with one which wasnt bent. Took hammers of various sizes to the passenger side to bash it back into place. Welds were broken and a single bolt held it in place. New bolt put in.
Front bumper needed to go back on so it got a GTI6 splitter and yellow fog lights. That went on and the bumper is now straight! and a bit saggy... but oh well!
Next job was to puit the black masks and grille back on. Difficult when you have no mounts left on your lights! Cable ties to the rescue.
Then because i never got round to it before I decided to actually plumb in my boost gauge. Undid the four bolts for the inlet manifold and used a crowbar to get it apart. Couldnt get to the bottom jubilee clip so drilled it in situ with kitchen roll in the manifold. It was caked in oil and I came out black... Cut and put the hose onto the take off piece and sat confused as my boost gauge didnt work. Amazingly the tube at the gauge end was onto one of the mouting bolts and not onto the bit it should have been onto. Doh!
Also finished off smoothing the boot plastic.
Tomorrow Im leaving at 10 to pick up camping gear from work and pick up the gf, meeting tom for stickers and a gearbox, meeting sam bates and James in his clio and then convoying to kettering for Frankie and Bennies for lunch!
However before that i still need to fit bucket seats and harnesses, clean the car, strip the car, mount the airbox and TPS, investigate the knocking.
Wish me luck!
took 2 hours to get the wishbone nut and bolt sorted out and the lower strut brace is now on. However now that I can drive it then engine keeps knocking on it so that was the worlds biggest waste of time. Hopefully if it knocks it enough itll bend it a bit so it stops knocking.
Then I decided to sort out the mexican wave front bumper. Took the entire slam panel off and replace it with one which wasnt bent. Took hammers of various sizes to the passenger side to bash it back into place. Welds were broken and a single bolt held it in place. New bolt put in.
Front bumper needed to go back on so it got a GTI6 splitter and yellow fog lights. That went on and the bumper is now straight! and a bit saggy... but oh well!
Next job was to puit the black masks and grille back on. Difficult when you have no mounts left on your lights! Cable ties to the rescue.
Then because i never got round to it before I decided to actually plumb in my boost gauge. Undid the four bolts for the inlet manifold and used a crowbar to get it apart. Couldnt get to the bottom jubilee clip so drilled it in situ with kitchen roll in the manifold. It was caked in oil and I came out black... Cut and put the hose onto the take off piece and sat confused as my boost gauge didnt work. Amazingly the tube at the gauge end was onto one of the mouting bolts and not onto the bit it should have been onto. Doh!
Also finished off smoothing the boot plastic.
Tomorrow Im leaving at 10 to pick up camping gear from work and pick up the gf, meeting tom for stickers and a gearbox, meeting sam bates and James in his clio and then convoying to kettering for Frankie and Bennies for lunch!
However before that i still need to fit bucket seats and harnesses, clean the car, strip the car, mount the airbox and TPS, investigate the knocking.
Wish me luck!
