It's been a good few months since I've updated any of this. Work's been manic and whenever I've had time at home I've done little bits and not much else.
Hoping to get the car over here at some point to actually get some time to work on bits.
Anyway, I finished up the exhaust system. I think my SSQV is leaking boost though, so that'll be going in the bin If I can't fix it.
The interior was stripped out in preperation for the black carpet and headliner. While I was in there I mounted a Chris Wilson FCD. Top piece of kit and very well made. Happy with the results.
The rear seats came out too as I'll never use them. Trying to work out a solution for a rear seat delete. I'm not a big fan of ICE but I thought of making a sub box over the top, Or just covering the floor with carpet between the boot and main carpet and sticking it down. Managed to get a set of Facelift rears from Mobeen on the facebook group. I know he's not popular on here but I've had a few transactions with him previously, Both selling and buying. Great service and a brilliant price too.
I thought I'd give carbon wrapping the dash a go, as the bright red paint work wasn't up to scratch. I'm quite happy with the end result, although there's some fiddly bits that'll have to be going over again soon. I've spoke to Noz about some heater ring surrounds that I'm going to paint in gloss black to finish the panels off. The heater controls have had the LED mod done to them, In the end I went for white with red and blue the AC and windscreen heater respectively. The new buttons arrived and they're much better than old yellowing ones. The rest of the dash has also been done in White, and I've installed a heckler red line tacho.
I also picked up a set of LS400 front brakes which I'm going to fit at some point. Slowly cleaning them up as they've miles upon miles of brake dust on them.
The Front bumper had a lot of wear and tear. Plenty of cracks in the fibreglass and was generally in a poor condition. So I started by sanding back the damaged areas and reinforcing with small strips of fibreglass and finishing with filler. Then we sanded the whole thing back ready for paint. Whilst I had the bumper off I test fitted the facelift indicators. I need to get a hold of two looms for them and splice them in, and ideally split them to remove the orange cap. The rest of the body work wasn't great either so a few spots were sanded down and filled in preparation for a bit of a tidy up.
That's progress so far. I'm back at work now so the next lot of updates will probably be over christmas. The rad has sprung a leak so I'm sourcing a new one and some autobox coolers. The battery and fuse box will be relocated to the boot to tidy up the engine bay and I'm debating a loom tuck too.