4 hours on the car this week, total 17.5 hours, travelling for work has got in the way - badly. Next week will be no better, will be in Germany.
Real slow progress atm.
Have only managed a few hours on the build this week, and each time I've pulled the donor out of the garage, [cos of limited space], my lovely neighbours are all over me wanting to know what is going on? Most of them are fascinated by the bloke who took a perfectly lovely MR2 and instantly reduced it's apparent value to around £8. Others want to talk and are re-living youth spent trying to keep their Morris Marina or Mk3 Cortina on the road, and remember constantly having dirt under fingernails.
The 4 hours spent on the car have probably generated 60 minutes of worthwhile work.
Hand filed back all cut edges ready for priming and painting. Have stripped the lockers behind the seats and removed plastics. Loose mounted the roll bar mounting plate. Mounted the front clip plate and the headlamp brackets. Mounted the door lock brackets on the cut door tops. For me, Tek screws do not drill in on their own, I'm having to pilot drill everything.
I know this is old news to most of the guys on this forum, but I..... am...... loving it !
Took a call from Brian. He said would I accept a change to the wheel spec.? Instead of having 19"x8" rims all round, I had the option to have 19"x9" on the rear with an effective increase in overall diameter of 20mm. He reassured me the arches would take the size. Fantastic..... sign me up. Means a rear tyre of 255mm [I think].
Looking forward to when I get the rest of the kit !
Once again, thanks to all for the support this week. The people on this forum are something else.