West of Scotland RSOC

nice motor,worth it in the end,my gartrac g6 4x4..........

prop done and getting painted

Right got home and had a few days to myself then got the tools out, had a delivery from Mr Matt Lewis with a few bits that i needed. Cleaned up the brake disks and refurbed the ABS block, sorry dont have any pics. Had to try and sort out the drivers side door striker and painted the intercooler. Built up some of the rear end...







I sent off my calipers to bigg red and heres the before and after...







































Some difference eh!



Tomorrow brake lines and fuel lines getting fitted. Over the weekend try and get the car plumbed up, monday its custom exhaust is getting made and fitted. Tuesday try and tie up some loose ends so that Mr Will Pedley can wire up the motor and start it hopefully on friday! woohoo

Not long now mate.

Where did you get the brakes zinc plated?? They look good.

A place called Bigg red; http://www.biggred.co.uk/ the job is spot on, they are like brand new.


Right today got the brakes on,















Spagetti junction, all the pipe work will be tidied up once i get all the correct clips!







Oh and i seem to have lost my reservior, hope i find it tomorrow otherwise i am in trouble.



Shortened prop was put on with thte hand brake cable, which needs to be chenged tomorrow for a shorter one, bought a sierra one and forgot about the 6 inches i cut off! Hopefully the escort cossie one will fit.







Got home and stripped the rad for paint and its new fans.















Crackle painted the breather.















Cleaned up the starter and some other bits then finished the intercooler.







Tomorrow the fuel lines, power steering, cooler, rad and some hoses!

Cant wait too see this car when its done looks awsome keep up the hard graft mate

looks awesome!!

OKay dokay, today got my intercooler and rad fitted with it brand new fans.







Mounted the header tank and power steering bottle,







Crackle painted the mount







Fitted the front bumper and bits.







Fitted all my hoses, tomorrow puting all my new jubliee clips on them.













Also fitted the brake reservoir and pedal box, no pic, (just some pedals!)



Got a problem with my hand brake cable, its too long, is there a way to cut off teh extra bit and re crimp the hoop back on or a replacement?















Theres about ten inches too much, the other side is tight and everything is adjusted to where it should be and is attached to the handbrake lever and we now have this excess. Any ideas? Even thinking about hand making a new hoop witha grub screw or crimp it again after cutting to length?

is there not a way to remove the slack from the handbrake end where it loops through the bracket like a cable connector clamp of some sort, just cut out the excess and re-clamp it? removing it from the caliper end would cause problems i think because of the way the ends are fitted.
the cars looking the bizness by the way fella your doing a cracking job, keep it up and keep the pics coming it's inspiration for us all,lol. i need it anyway

Right today we ( ally and gibby) put all my new jubilee clips on the pipe work and Ally my bestest buddy in the world made a wee bracket for the fuel pump and filter, no pics yet but will get them tomorrow. Got some pics of it out in the sunshine with the wheels sitting in the correct place now the brake disks are on.





























Got a couple of wee things to do tomorrow, tighten up stuff and paint the fuel pump bracket, sort a power steering hose. Then monday full exhaust getting made and fitted, then tuesday all the fluids will be put in, coolant, diff oils, engine oil and power steering fluid. Car will be getting measured up for its fuel lines with a remote oil filter set up, all aero quip fittings! wooohooo

Right been busy all day but not on the car! Got the power sterring pipe off and I will sort it tomorrow.







Also got the braces out for the powder coater. Thinking about a mercury grey colcourlike the gearbox mount? Ally wants me to do it crackle black, what do you think?







Then i started rubbing down the downpipe for tomorrow, the exhaust is getting made and the boys said it would save alot of effort if the downpipe was there. Its a bit bashed but will hopefully help them out a bit.



Before







After







Tomorrow the exhaust! looking forward to that.

Crackle the strut brace will look best IMO anyway

canna wait tae see it in the flesh again

Right i had great intensions of getting up early and taking the car to ayr (miles away) to get the exhaust done but when i drove out the house onto the motorway i got held up in a traffic jam cos of some bloody lorry on it side for about an hour, late already! The then about 5 miles down the road somethign happened........can you tell what it was yet??



You guessed it.







Can you tell whats wrong with this pic...







I was a very lucky boy and a true gentleman that owns G.F. Autos in Muirhead took a wheel off his own trailer and let me borrow it to get down to Allys where he had a nice new one sitting waiting to be changed over. Once i got down there Ally changed the tyre and got it back on and i went to ayr. The car was meant to be getting picked up tonight and brought back but today kinda blew that to f**k so it will be tomorrow now, cant wait, saw some of the guys work and it was amazing! Looking forward to showing the the finished article.

Would that be the tyre I told you to blow up before you left the garage on Saturday then ?

The cars lookin minted mate

Very lucky boy wae that blow out

nice car there

spent two days trying to log into this bloody thing, stupid passwords, the reset thign didnt work either!

Your doing a smashing job bud and I second the crackle black on the strut brace