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Stoneleigh bargain bucket clearout I've got a few odds and sods surplus to requirements that I will bring to stoneleigh on Sunday. Some free, some really cheap, some offer what you want to pay as I'm not sure on a value, want majority gone in Sunday so grab a bargain/freebie! Pair of cycle wing brackets with upright supports cut off - SOLD NEW IVA compliant rear view mirror from demon tweeks, the swivel is loose so mirror won't stay in position but this may be a simple fix £2 Pair of dummy struts - offers Steel toggle switches x 2 - £1 each Red illuminated toggle switch - £1 Pinto to type 2 gear box brace, may suit other boxes - offers NEW in box breather filter blue cotton and silver top, cheapest on eBay is £3.50 - £2 Sierra brake bias valve - offer Robin Hood engineering sticker - yellow with green archer - FREE Short length of 32mm ID flexible hose - offer Sierra dash brightness dial - FREE Sierra wiper speed dial - FREE Smiths temp gauge with corrosion to face behind glass, unknown condition otherwise - SOLD Smiths mechanical oil pressure gauge with slight corrosion to face behind glass - SOLD Pair 3mm wheel spaces - £1 Toggle switch kill cover red - £1 Heavy duty push button missing one terminal bolt - FREE Gauge holder for 3 x 52mm dials in chrome - £1 Indicator/hazard warning diodes with wiring diagram 50p a set (4 available) Pinto dipstick with oil level sender £2 SOLD Mechanical oil pressure gauge with fittings - black face and chrome surround £5 Black cycle wings with u trim already attached as shown in photo below. Slightly too narrow for my 205 tyres. Currently have indicators fitted to rear lower corners which will be removed leaving just 2 small holes. £10 SOLD 30cm length of 8mm ID silicone hose - FREE Swept wing/clam shell wing middle brackets Pinto servo vacuum hose x 2 Pinto distributor cap and rotor arm used Spare wheel carrier lower bracket

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Thanks both. Still lots of little bits to do as well as the 4 bigs one left: Fit seats Make and fit boot and cover Finish brakes(!) Paint

Good luck!

This weekend was a bit of a reassembly time, mostly for my own motivation. So everything that could easily be bolted on was and got the car back to looking like this, please excuse the flat tyres, I took te photos while waiting for the compressor to be dropped round. that brings it pretty much up to date. I have missed loads out as there are so many little and dull jobs I could spend hours typing up what has been done. Still lots to do to but I am confident I can have it ready for IVA, including painting it, before the end of the year.

more recently gaz made me some new headlight brackets (massive thanks due there) to replace the ones with the original clam shell wing supports and built in a bracket for my new front indicators I also manage to source some original Robin Hood cycle wing brackets (thanks again gaz) which I forgot to take a photo of before painting as fitting.

I also acquired a few wheels they are from a Capri 2.8 special 13x7 et5!

During this time I have been through just a few sets of seats... Seats that came with the kit, hardly all them a seat and not IVA compliant The industrial carbon fibre seat, comfiest seat in the world, but didnt fit the car Westfield GRP seat, too big for the car! cobra clubman. Too small for me and a right fit in the car So it became obvious finding a bucket seat that fitted in the car and I fitted in would be impossible. That's when I found these they are cobra roadster 7's and fit me and the car perfectly, still to be fitted yet.

attention then turned to wiring (thanks rich for his help with this) and the dash / centre console. I had a dash panel almost the right size and so set about making this up properly. roughly how it looked to start with some bits sat in place the finished dash in place in the car, you can see the mess the wiring was in at the bottom of the picture the wiring has since been stripped back to only include the bits required but have left in things like wiper, washer and water wiring incase I ever decide to go back to a full screen. If by the time I decide to do a scratch built loom its still not got a full screen I wot be putting it back in.

Just thought if post a brief update of what has happened with my kit at over the last 18 months I purchased the kit part built back in November 2011 from the dad of the owner of sliders guest house after staying there in the October. Day I collected it looked like this: it came with a 2.0 pinto installed and a box of bits, most of which have turned out to be not much use. The screen and wiper mechanism etc was removed and sold on and an aeroscreen bought to replace it. The engine was then determined to be duff, and i realised i should concentrate on the more importnt bits first, so out it came and was replaced with a known good 1.6 pinto. Old engine out New engine in Then after a bit of faffing about with the ignition timing, it lived! Link to video - http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/stumac1985/c438f366.mp4 Shortly after this I bolted the front end back on and "drove it" for the very first time. Link to video - http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/stumac1985/A37B24DA-DCA3-4B0F-A288-4346563BCC04-1174-0000017DAC6019D7-1.mp4

Cheers longboarder

Just checked work diary and should be able to make it!

Any pictures of what you used, mike? Mark, not sure that would get me enough.

Not a clue what they go for tbh. I'm taking a bit of a punt as I think I can make it work as part of a cover design I have in mind. Let me know once you know if you need it for the new one

Reckon I coul make that work. How much? ;-)

I hvent checked from the floor, it was the difference in height from tyre to arch that concerned me / looked odd.

In that case I'll wait until I know pressures are even as I know ones a little flat... Cheers snapper. Could they be as much as an inch different per side?

It was in the garage, which I thinks pretty level... Dampers all look new still (cars never been on the road) will check springs are sat correctly. Is there any difference side to side on yours?

I have a sierra based s7 with separate shocks and springs and noticed today that the near side sits about an inch higher than the offside (gap between tyre and arch) is there a way to adjust the ride height to compensate? Arches appear to be fitted the same height each side so don't think it's that!

Has anyone fitted arch extensions to rear arches of their hood? If so what arches did you use? I'm looking at doing this so I can run et5 13x7 wheels. TIA

Battery live to one side of toggle switch. Ignition live circuits to other side of toggle. Loop wire from output of switch to one side of push button. Starter wire to other side. Can't help with wire colours but that's the basics. I had that starter panel before.

Cheers.

Looks like ill be coming Sunday then! Happy to lend a hand for a bit to.

Emissions vary state to state in the us iirc. Seem to rember something about California having very strict emissions standards.