Time for some love for the white one

[stephendell]

Must have had this one for nearly 20 years now. It had a lot of love in the early days of ownership and has always been a bit pampered but about time for some more serious TLC now.

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Plan is new rear tyres, refurbished subframe, tubular lower wishbones, sort the oil leaks, coil over suspension, stonechip the chassis, alloy rocker covers, new brake lines, gear change bushes and remove seized filler. New fluids all round. Should keep me busy for a week or two!

Looking forward to seeing you on the hill at Prescott this year then. It would be great to have the President doing a demo run.

[stephendell]

It might just be ready for Prescott but it won’t be driven with anger with my eyesight

I know Stephen it's not nice or much fun
But still get those racing excuses in early
Would be great to see you in a working GTA at any point this year.

[stephendell]

Building up a replacement rear subframe ready to swop over. Will probably only use the uprights from the existing ones as they were refurbished and fitted with new bearings.

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Wishbones painted and drying off. Gone for tubular lowers.

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Replacement subframe painted and ready to fit. From a turbo car but easily the best one I could find.

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Refurbished wishbone pivots. I’ve ordered new 12.9 bolts but these ones are actually pretty good.

All looks really good, I like the tubular lowers.

[stephendell]

All metalwork treated with POR15 and all fibreglass fresh stonechip.

Just need to work out how to do the bit behind the pipes!

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[stephendell]

Everything out today

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[stephendell]

New subframe starting to come together

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[stephendell]

This was the reason I wanted to change the subframe. I knew one of the wishbone mounts was rusty directly under the water pipes but now I can see it properly it was much worse than I thought so pleased to have caught this.

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Well done Stephen it's nice to see it coming together. Also nice to have all those parts to hand

New subframe starting to come together

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You've got your lower wishbones on backwards numnuts ....

[stephendell]

They’re not fitted. Just laying there for a photo. The tubular ones aren’t handed. You just flip them over.

[stephendell]

Thought I’d also look at an engine upgrade while it’s all out.

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engines upside down you numpwhatist!