montythemole wrote:Been a month, where's our updates!?
Hey, yeah sorry been a bit busy...
Sorted quite a bit on the car, bought a falcon sports exhaust system and fitted 90% of it (just need to make a small bracket), fitted both bumpers, interior is mostly fitted, vinyl roofed it, bled the brakes and clutch.
Worked out that it would cost me £65+ vat to recon my starter at a place i've heard some bad reviews of, so i bought one already reconned on ebay for a bit extra but with postage. I fitted it and seems to have done the trick for now at least.
Had a look at the manifold bolt problem, for some reason i cannot remember i had two washers on the engine stabiliser end bolts so i managed to cut these in situ in the hope that the rest of the thread would catch. To my joy it tightened up but on running the engine it still sounds like i have a leak somewhere v near there. When i gave it a quick rev it seemed to pop/lightly backfire from the engine/manifold area, so maybe this is an indication of a leak?
Some pics.
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Wow! .....If Carlsberg had built old-style, 3-series BMWs.... 
. I was going to do it with the original stitching bits at each side but i didn't trust myself with sewing that long, but i like the look of it without anyway..