Project Cliff - The Cherry Red Thirty by stretch tech

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right then, update from today

pretty much finished bolting all the engine bits back on

fitted the water pump pulley, fan, radiator and cowling, washer bottle, wiper motor, radiator hoses, new fuel filter/sediment bowl, braided fuel lines, fuse box, over flow pipe and engine earth (there wasn't one on the mini when i brought it )

question: is the float bowl over flow pipe (copper pipe) on the correct spout ? cheers

that's all for today, plan of action for this week:

monday - hub and drive shaft assembly on one side

tuesday - hub and drive shaft assembly on other side

thursday - run battery cable and fit an isolator switch

friday - fit gauge cluster, heater box and pipes, speedo drive, accelerator cable and pedal

saturday - WIRING LOOM ! !

and as it is a bank holiday......get it running (hopefully)

4-30-2012

hi all, today we attached the drive shafts and hubs after having to swap the drive shafts over as they were refitted to the wrong hubs and fitted the front wheels, i will take some photos tomorrow as it is late now and i don't feel well but now all the running gear is back on the car

5-1-2012

high all, pictures from yesterday















today we run the new battery cable, it was a bit fiddly to run in the engine bay but the rest went very smoothly, just got to make a bracket to mount the isolator on the shock mount tomorrow. all that is left to do now is wire in the loom and then it is time for the big switching on

5-3-2012

hi all, today we finished off the battery cable and installed the isolator switch in the boot

we also test fitted the rest of the exhaust, a few hits against the trolley jack and the correct alignment was achieved just got to weld the y piece into a different angle so the centre piece clears the gear linkage

i will up load some photos tomorrow, just the loom left now so it's looking good for Saturday to be D day

5-4-2012

hi all, photos from yesterday

battery and isolator wired in







and update from today, exhaust fitted





that's it, all the mechanical running gear required to get the car running is fitted, tomorrow we will tackle the remaining loom and then fire it up...i will try and remember to film the big switch on and post it up here

comments welcome as always

5-5-2012

hi all, today we spent 6 lonnngg hours on the loom: cleaning, repairing, correcting previous bodges and generally neatening up. the loom for the engine is fitted and wired in, we now just need to loosely fit and wire in the dials for the dash and fit the steering rack and then we can fire him up i also couldn't resist buying a new chrome tailpipe whilst queueing in mega spares and it really finishes off the back end of the car i will upload some photos tomorrow as there isn't really that much to see at the moment

i have also decide to go ahead with converting to a blade type fuse box and fuses, i know that this is risky business but half the wiring loom has already been previously bridged with blade fuses and nothing ever set on fire so i might as well finish the other half off and wire them all into a new fuse box to tidy the loom up as there is fuses hanging here and there. plus one row of terminals on the old fuses box has corroded quite badly