MEANXBCOUPE engine build up.

[MEANXBCOUPE]

just a quick update, sorry no photos.

Since we all got back from Echuca, work has been flat out and then christmas crash tackles you!
I have been busy with the coupe. I was hoping to register it before the end of year, but, thats not going to happen. looks like Late feb early March. Why?

Well as i had said in an earlier post, most of the rear half of the interior has been pulled out and changed. we now have matching bucket seats in the back.
This required,
New seat belts, enertia reel front and back,
Removal of the stereo gear,
Removal of a lot of braces for the old racing harnesses,
Moving of the brake boosters.
I needed to make,
Spreader plates for the new seat mounts
Buy new seats and modify ( cut 200mm off the top and 25 mm out of the centers of the back to fit in the coupe, as they hit the roof)
Make new booster brakets,
Make fill panels between the seats and the seat door trim area.
Installed another 7" monitor and moved the PS2 to the rear of the car for my boy to use.
This all started because i went to see an engineer to register the car in its previous guise as a two seater, he said if your going to eventually convert back to a four seater, do it now so it wont need to be re engineered.

As a result, i've had him out to look over the car and it has passed for full street rego, barring a noise and brake test...
Noise, knew i'd be over the limit, now making changes to the system to quieten it down a bit.
Brakes, I had just mooved the boosters the day i rang to book the engineer for an inspection, it was a week later that i got around to bleeding the brakes and getting the car started again (it had been a month), this was the day before the inspection. sure enough, Murphy attacked again! The little rubber hose that controls vacuum from a valve in the (new) boosters had split and was allowing air pressure to leek in to the booster diaphram, result, locked front brakes! ie no brake test possible :

Any ways, that issue is now sorted after ringing the supplier. They sent a replacement part that day.

Coupe is due for a retrim in mid January, noise and brake test to follow and from there its through the rego process, so who knows how long that will take!!
Ive even got new number plates chosen.

Cheers for now