The easter break has been good! With a trip to the yorkshire dales on the cards I set about fitting my powerflex engine mount and new brakes + braided lines.
Straight after fitting my engine mount I hit a pothole and a awful knock was apparent from (what i thought was) the steering rack. So I confirmed it with the garage that it was the rack causing the problem and asked what the likelihood was for it to go pop when in yorkshire (as it was tomorrow) obviously it was fine and I travelled to Yorkshire.
I got the rack sorted when i returned... and low and behold the knock was still there! I began tinkerring with the steering system some more to find that the steering wheel had just become loose on its bolt
a simple tighten with my T50 and it was sorted.
I fitted the 266mm's I had sitting in my bikeshed, shamefully i picked up the wrong size brake spanner so didnt get the chance to fit my new exact braided lines :thumbdown: Also due to where the wheel weights were placed they caught the caliper on every rotation. I am now driving weightlessly. Thankfully there's no wheel wobble at below 65mph!
However the brakes are on and look as follows:
When up at Alton Towers I returned back to the sax only to find two wheel bolts missing from the front wheels after a mile or so of driving! This then involved searching mile after mile for a halfords! I now have a spare set incase this should ever happen again just a bit annoying really that someone should take something so odd.
The next few months I'm working towards getting the car looking perfect, ensuring the underside is in as good as a condition as possible, getting the roof resprayed, sorting a new front bumper bracket as the old one is quite rusty and ensuring the engine bay looks perfect before FCS.
I've just began undersealing the front passenger side (I undersealed the rear last year)
I'll also be sorting the car for Scotland, Cornwall and it's first trackdays.
Comments as usual are welcome.
