Finally i have managed to take a few pictures of how the car is at the moment. Its been fully bead blasted underneath and then rust proofed with Zinga and then painted in soothrite. In not sure if i will underseal the car as im sure this can lead to problems later on as if there was any rust it does get masked by the under seal. I have also added a picture of the back axel that im rebuilding as all the running gear had the same treatment.

I now have a nice new set of front springs and cant wait to get them back on the car! just waiting for some bits for the front hubs to arrive from opel gt source and then i can get the front suspension all back together. Im just building up the back axel and will post some pics later this week. Nice new sierra 4×4 calipers going on, a fully rebuilt axel with all new bearings and a limited slip diff (only standard manta a one) and also the setup uses the standard hand brake cable! more pics later this…

The new front springs have now been made and paid for 🙁 £95 all in, vat, postage etc.. and should be here by the end of the week or monday! then i can start to put the front suspension all back together. Will take some pictures when they arrive.

New front springs: being made by http://www.springcoil.co.uk and should be ready in the next week or so. Brake and fuel lines: just need to order these tomorrow, and if your looking for good prices on goodridge stuff these guys seem good, http://www.motoscope.co.uk/diy_hoses.htm. Petrol tank: still waiting for flange to be made, should be next week i hope. Front brakes: got the discs sorted, just need to have a bracket made up, might not get time this week to pop in to the engineering company so probably next week on those, found out that the master cylinder is too large at…

Dennis at Opel GT source has been so good with helping me out with the exhaust header and other bits and has just sent a load of stuff to Florida with DHL. So all i need to do now is wait for them to get back over here in june and then i can start fitting them to the car. Think i bought more than i should have! some poly top hats, door hindge pins (just incase!) front hub inner dust covers, timing chain tensioning kit and im sure there were a few other little bits! they do so many…

After popping into friction linnings and looking at how big the catalog was the guy there was super helpful and said he would see what he could find for me. So after quite a bit of searching and only being able to find simmilar ones to what i had or 5 stud ones he come up with a different plan. He found some brembo volvo discs that were 280mm across, 26mm thick and almost spot on offset. the only problem was that the stud holes were way out, so far out that it was possible to have them drilled out…

Spoke to my local brake supplier about some bigger discs to fit the fronts and it seems that they have a catolog with all the sizes that I can borrow! To find the right ones. So im off over there tomorrow to get it and hopefully find somewhat fit, will let you know what I find. http://www.frictionlinings.co.uk/

Just going to order all the hardline fittings etc.. for the fuel system today and maybe the goodridge fitting for the brakes and the clutch. But am finding it had to get any info on brake discs! i have some vented disc that if have used with volvo 4 pots that fit perfect, but as im going to willwood 4 pot fronts now i need to upgrade the discs to some that are a bit bigger and dont know what will fit that are about 280mm, 4 stud and the same offset? seems to be some info about vectra ones…

When the car had a bit of an upgrade to the suspension about 12 years ago, it had coni adjustable shocks fitted and uprated springs. And to stop the front of the car looking like it was taking off, as a temporary measure the front springs were cut down to get the right ride height. And the plan was to then get some made to the right length, but as you can guess this never happened and the car ran around like that, which wasnt too bad but it did kill the spring top mounts which did need replacing every…

The petrol tank should soon be sorted! i took it up to ad metal spinners (http://www.admetalspinners.co.uk/) today, who were soooooo helpful. they are going to make the collar that i can have welded to the tank to hold the fuel pump in. All i need to do now is find a nice helpful person at a fiat parts department to find out how the pump is help into the tank so i can do the same. Then maybe a tank breather adaptor and we are there. I will add a picture when its all done.