One more quick update and that gets me up to date before I get the car back this weekend.
So as I've mentioned the car went to my Indy just over a week ago now. I'll report on what it's had when it's all done as there's quite a bit and things change on a daily basis.
I had to collect my AOS from Porsche Centre Newcastle on the way down. They had this lovely old 356 in. I'd love a one of these although I prefer the 'A".
Closest I'll ever get will be a Chesil which would probably do for pottering out for a Sunday lunch, etc.
My indy has this in. He's known it for years and it has had no mechanical work whatsoever other than servicing. It gets run on a bit of a shoestring. :wink:
Imagine the owner had coughed up for a £12k preventative rebuild at 100k miles. He'd have sold himself short by 72k miles. :wink:
When I dropped mine off I whipped my sun visors out to bring home and repair the flappy covers.
The metal spring clips break the plastic they're mounted in so there's no tension. I guess there's probably a fix out there involving glue or epoxy, but it's better to have sound plastic really.
So I purchased 2 perfect used mirror units from Rich (ELA/CLR) from his car, for £30 each. Bargain.
I set about swapping them over but forgot to take pictures until I was almost done. There was no drama.
I wanted to swap them without cutting wires, so to do this you remove the internal gubbins and slide the metal power strips out the back of the old mirror moulding. You then offer the replacement housings up to the visor, slide the strips back in through the hole in the back and fit the bulbs back in.
Voila. No more flapping about.
As I've mentioned my mate Craig wants to do his arches now.
I thought he was just threatening me but sure enough he turned up at mine first thing Saturday morning.
So we got his inside and got cracking.
That means the little Abarth has to live outside yet again. It'll be back in in a couple of weeks though in time for the bad weather.
We made decent progress. First job was to remove his rear callipers to send them for refurb. His fronts have already been done.
A stubborn brake pipe meant a 30 mile round trip to his for better tools than my 'Gibbon spec" ones, then we were sorted.
Next was to get the front up in the air. We got it fully stripped so he had his bits for powder coating on Monday and I tackled the rust in the OS arch. Identical places to mine but not quite as bad, despite his car having 10k more miles. Proves there's some truth in the southern car vs Scottish car argument. Although my car began its life in Colchester, it was in Scotland long enough to accelerate the corrosion in places.
Anyway, Craig will no doubt update his thread once done so I'm not gonna repeat it all here. :wink:
In other news, these arrived a week or so ago -
They're the Design911 Carbon GT3 reps. Nice enough. I bought them used from Steve on here for £750 which is a fair price. They're very nice seats. Interior is a far away project though but I always gather parts if they're well priced. I'll have the centre cushions re-trimmed in grey leather to tie them in with my grey interior.
Next for me is get my car back, then look at getting it all under body protected.
In the meantime I can begin stripping my split rims for refurb and also refurbing my callipers and changing them to red for next year.
So that's it up to date. Only a big bill at the end of the week to look forward to now. :sad: