I forgot the following feeling:
Many times now (since I have the car) the following happens:
I make a step forward (and good progress) and then something happens and puts me back 2 steps which means im back at the beginning again.
Thats only happens when i come up with new ideas/projects and the fact that I want (and do) everything on my own on the car. (mechanical stuff, painting, electrical/wire jobs, etc etc)
Sometimes i really wonder why i dont just hand the car to someone else and let them do their work instead of going through all the struggle myself.
Im not a mechanic at all and before i got the 14 years ago, i basically had no mechanical knowledge whatsoever. I learned most of it in a "learning by doing" kinda way, which takes a lot of time and nerves.
I really do make my life harder with all of it but then on the other hand: it makes me incredibly happy and the passion and drive for it never stopped.
Anyway, enough of the that, i just wanted to give you some history to let you know why this weekend was rather frustrating.
I gave myself a new deadline: end of March/beginning of April. I will book the car for NCT around that time so she will be out on the road soon again.
This weekend i started to tidy a good few bits (front) and wires. I have the whole front off the car at the moment so it was easy enough to work away. One of the things that annoyed me for a while was the intercooler that has a slight movement (barely noticable actually) and all the wires in the engine bay.
So i started with the intecooler and pipes and made sure all is neat and bolt on perfectly fine. I also have 2 custom made intercooler brackets on the bottom of it so there is no movement. Looks kinda like this (its 2 of them):
But then....SNAP...one of the bolts actually snapped so now one side/bracket is loose. Not sure what to do now since half of the bolt is stuck as well so cant use the mounting point of the intercooler. Damit!
Trying to find out now if i can get some brackets made up for the top of the radiator to help mount it on from the top and not the bottom!
Pretty sure I saw them brackets somewhere before, just need to find out where to get them
Although the intercooler is still pretty neat and barely moves on the car but it annoys me that there is still some small tiny movement (HELLO ODC).
So thats a bit frustrating.
How the front looks at the moment: (nevermind the yellow tape, ran out of the black one ha)
Also:
I got a frame made up for my standard passenger seat rails to fit my new seats. It is incredibly hard to find "ready-made" seat rails, im trying to find something for months!
So i was pretty deligthted when my buddy told me he could do something for me. He made the frame that i only needed to bolt onto the rails and then bolt the seat onto the whole lot to fit it.
Guys i was so excited! Did the whole lot yesterday.....
However, turns out the frame wasn't fitting properly, 1) the seat is way too high up 2) i could not bolt the rails into the chassis anymore since the frame wasn't angled properly. (after further inspection).
im so frustrated at this stage! Have a new pair of seats but cant get them to fit.
Maybe i should pick up on welding and metal-works, thats the only think i havent done yet...and do that myself too
More updates coming the next few days, feel like i wrote loads already