The bottom end is now completely rebuilt, with new piston ring! and in the engine is now back in the car and on the later front cross member with the round engine mounts (that are easier to get new ones for)               The flywheel is now on with new ARP bolts from Risse motorsport in germany. (just a note that the ARP bolts are all the same size so you will need to have the locating one turned down a fraction to fit) The new clutch has been fitted again with high tensile cap…

After a slight mishap, where i buggered up the bottom oil control ring on the new piston 🙁 which has set me back £50 and two weeks while i found a new set of rings! the bottom part of the engine is now in the car 🙂 Jan at http://www.zymo-tech.de/ found me a new set of rings in super quick time and they arrived on tuesday (my day off) and the sun was out. So very carefully i replaced the broken ring and got the piston in. new con rod shells in and engine ready to go into the car. Im still…

And anyone else rebuilding an engine. When you buy i bottom end bearing kit, it dosnt come with the con rod bearings 🙁 as i found out as i opened the Glyco box! now im waiting for the con rod bearings to arrive and with this bank holiday its going to be the end of the week before i can get on and finish the bottom end now!

Steve at Rhino Alloys (www.rhinoalloys.co.uk) has done an amazing job of refurbishing the rocker cover.  

Just doing a quick trial fit up of the callipers! And they are going to look good when fitted.I just need to make a template for the bracket and then get two made up so i can fit the callipers on and then its brake lines in and we are nearly ready to put the car back on the ground. (and need the exhaust made up as well 🙂

Having decided that this time i would use something better for the fuel lines as im running injection on the car, i decided on Goodridge hardline with bulk head fittings. I was originally going to run them through the inside of the car and not underneath to keep the underneath nice and clean. But Alf did point out that if a line did fracture i could be sat i the car with a lot of fuel flooding in! so i did a quick google and read up on what other people had done, and it does seem that ruel lines inside…

Now the suspension is all in and bolted up its time to put on the hubs with the new big brakes! I have used Volvo vented ones as they were the same offset and i was able to get them re-drilled to fit on the 4 stud hubs.

What a bugger to fit the new uprated torq tube doughnut 🙂 (from Opel GT Source) Finaly got it in without too much swearing! now centre bearing fitted as well. So thats the back suspension in, the torq tube and the front suspension all in and all i need to do now is clean up a few bolts and then i can get the hubs on and ready for the new super big discs 🙂 Then i think i will crack on and get some of the break pipes done at the back ready for the ones through the car…