vilguy
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Well I did do a little bit over the weekend. I finally fitted some 3" tubular side steps ive had in the garage for 6 months.
Cut a hole in the 2nd row floor for my vehicle safe to go in.... only to find that I had miss judged its size and there is no way its fitting in there!!! DDOOHHHH!!! so now I have a huge gaping hole to repair. Bugger.
I welded up the 2nd row smart seats completely so they are in now. Its all spaced out with box section etc so a bit heavy. Bit its given me the dimensions to make up some custom tubular frames so I will get round to that later to improve things
However the seats slide backward and forward to give more or less space which is really handy. Also they still tilt forward if I need to use all the available space.
I painted the rear crossmember after getting it nice and clean with the angle grinder and a knotted wire brush. Damn those things can flick rust at you at high velocity cant they (note to self, wear a thick jacket when using that!). Its in better nick that I thought and only needs a bit of welding on the inside of it. 7
I also used the same wire brush to check out the damage on the bulkhead l/h corner which I thought was minimal, turns out I wish I hadn't looked as the previous bodger has filled up the corner with car body filler. now exposed to the elements. Its quite a bit of welding to do.
on the engine side, I installed a nice silicon air intake to get the inlet in front of the alternator to make life easier to rig up a more decent inlet. Theres not much space with these disco engines in the 110 is there! I am tempted to get a twin alternator bracket (or make one) in order to move the alternator up to the r/h side of the engine and really tidy up in the inlet / improve access to the turbo.
Ive got some pics but I had to buy a new laptop as I killed my old one, and windows 8 is doing my frickin tree in so I cant be bothered to try and upload anything.
Cut a hole in the 2nd row floor for my vehicle safe to go in.... only to find that I had miss judged its size and there is no way its fitting in there!!! DDOOHHHH!!! so now I have a huge gaping hole to repair. Bugger.
I welded up the 2nd row smart seats completely so they are in now. Its all spaced out with box section etc so a bit heavy. Bit its given me the dimensions to make up some custom tubular frames so I will get round to that later to improve things
However the seats slide backward and forward to give more or less space which is really handy. Also they still tilt forward if I need to use all the available space.I painted the rear crossmember after getting it nice and clean with the angle grinder and a knotted wire brush. Damn those things can flick rust at you at high velocity cant they (note to self, wear a thick jacket when using that!). Its in better nick that I thought and only needs a bit of welding on the inside of it. 7
I also used the same wire brush to check out the damage on the bulkhead l/h corner which I thought was minimal, turns out I wish I hadn't looked as the previous bodger has filled up the corner with car body filler. now exposed to the elements. Its quite a bit of welding to do.
on the engine side, I installed a nice silicon air intake to get the inlet in front of the alternator to make life easier to rig up a more decent inlet. Theres not much space with these disco engines in the 110 is there! I am tempted to get a twin alternator bracket (or make one) in order to move the alternator up to the r/h side of the engine and really tidy up in the inlet / improve access to the turbo.
Ive got some pics but I had to buy a new laptop as I killed my old one, and windows 8 is doing my frickin tree in so I cant be bothered to try and upload anything.
