Anyone who knows me will know progress is slow with all my cars, but I realised the other day I've been in the unit for 6 months now and I've still not finished stripping the car ffs. Anyway, here's some bits.
Made a workbench, some shelves, tidied some bits up, now have quite a nice little setup in my corner of the unit.
Did another buy, my little 50l compressor just wasn't up to powering my air tools, so found a used 150l SIP one. Quieter than the Draper, way higher cfm, higher pressure, doesn't come on as much. Well worth the buy.
Been repairing the pair of wings for the buyer to collect this weekend, progress slowed as I was waiting to sort the compressor out before I could carry on.
My 1st proper experience of mig welding rusty curse word and using repair panels, had a ball... lol!
Spent more time chasing rust and modifying a £85 repair panel that didn't follow the right shape  Thing took about 4 weeks to arrive too
Anyway, enough moaning.
Stripped more s**t
Heater out, after many swear words
Heater wont be going back in, Will be running a heated screen and I may treat myself to a little 12v race heater.
It'd given a LOT of room behind the dash to move the firewall back if needs be, which is great.
Only thing in the way is the link from the brake pedal to the master cylinder, but I dare say I'll be running a completely different setup to standard there anyway so shouldn't be an issue.
It's a big old lump.
Next up I pulled the entire loom, this job took hours, way more tricky than expected, so many daft little clips and little modules bolted on in hard to see spaces etc.
THERES SO FRIGGIN MUCH OF IT TOO, it's so heavy
Wish I had some scales I could weigh it with, wish I'd have been able to document the weights of everything removed tbf.
Guess I'll just have to go off wiki kerb weight vs finished weight when I get it corner balanced.
In regards to the loom, I'm going balls deep and making my own loom from scratch. I hate electrics, it goes right over my head. Determined to figure it all out and and make a really clean fresh loom.
Figured its easier than working with this mess and removing about 70% of it.
Decided if I get rid of as many luxuries as possible itll make it far easier, not to mention lighter.
don't plan to have any wires going into the doors, rear will be minimal (lights, battery, fuel pump, sunroof motor (yes, I'm keeping the sunroof because I love them)) Engine will be standalone management anyway so nothing original there, then its just the necessities, lights, horn, wipers etc.
Feels massive inside now with everything removed
Decided to pass on the Petrolicious meeting at Bicester this weekend to spend some more time on this, maybe I'll actually make some big progress, maybe I'll end up being lazy, who knows 
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, when do you plan to be back on the road?
