I looked into that electric opening thing. It would involve some cutting... thats something I dont want to do. Pretty much the most effective way to get rid of petrol nicking must be to install a wire mesh in the filler pipe so the thieves cant get their hose to the petrol.

Been long since my last post in this topic. Theres been stuff going on but as always I've been lazy like a gipsy and taken zero pics of the process. You can almost tell from that picture that the car has front windows installed

We got one of the 4 pillar lifts up and the car has moved on to it so theres a lot more space and I can work with the underbody freely. If the pic werent so damned small you could easily spot my 3.9L block which is waiting clean up, it also needs all new main and conrod bearings. I also need proper heads for it.


Also I bought a set of 4 Compomotive CX600 16" rims. 225 for front and 245 for rear. 150€ for whole set with tyres (not new but with some 5-6mm pad left).

Better pics now I finally rememered to take the better camera with me... still the pics turned out pretty shitty.

Showing konis, poly bushes and Disc Brakes



This window has 35% tint applied to it. Not too dark at all... very civilized tint and not too dark at all! Bit mafia look but not "got my car from a cereal box" look.


Shiny acid resistant stainless steel bolts, nuts and washers! Everything I installed went in with loads of rust prevention wax.


Can you believe this is 245 wide? I cant... it looks so narrow in the picture.


And the Compomotive CX600 in better resolutions




Finally to show the car on a lift. Lifted to height where its easy for me to sit on that "bench" and work under the car.




Now as final question. How many of you think that the rear subframes (which holds the torque tube) rubber bushes that are between the subframe and the car should be made out of polyurethane?

Been quite quiet lately because of army. That damn useless clown school takes my time just playing a fool. Anyways back to business... I've been working with the sunroof mechanism 2 days now... what a bloody pain and its not even completed yet!

Heres a black frame I found from our warehouse... all cleaned up.


Heres the old diarrhea poo colored one. I just couldnt put that into a black car... it looks so disgusting. Plus the black one is in a LOT BETTER CONDITION


The sunroofs moving parts were so damn sticky that it took all my strenght to just move them. So I put a lot of MAG1 penetration oil in the cables and moved them around some 50-100 times so the oil gets everywhere... I put so much oil that the oil came through the other end of the cables
After that I left the oil to give its effect for a week there. And after that I put a lot of clear vaseline in the cables as seen in the pictures.



Then I had a look at the old sunroof cloth and DAMN... words cant describe how awful it looked. SO... I had to make NEW ONE
So nice and clean. But it took some 5 hours to just make it!





Then I looted some new parts!!! New tailgate grille, new tailgate lock/handle mechanism and some random new plastic part.





After all the trouble with the sunroof mechanism it started looking bit better




The sunroof air divider needs to be refurbished and painted black because theres small area with veeery slight surface rust... and I just absolutely hate how it looks like some pee burned underpants.



Tinted windows waiting to be installed



Now... Heres some pretty interesting part for some people. I got this little bit damaged headlight with the frame in one piece. Its waiting for xenon projectors. I might get few xenon lights which I will strip for their projectors from a mazda dealership. Those mazda guys change whole light units because the automatic levellers stepper motor dies... So my SD1 might aswell get BI-xenon

yeah i like the t5 aswell i am running 1 in my 38 chev behind a very woked 5.7 and lsd i give it hell and i have had no problems i bought my rover to hack around in then some one ran into my 38 and i cant drive it till the insurance is done 4 weeks sofar nad they have not even come to look at it.

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Little something of whats about to come along with led taillights.

Projector headlights. My goal is to use 3 projectors per headlight and 1 of them is short beam and 2 others are full-beams. All use 50watt xenons! 150watt of xenon power per headlight and 300watt combined xenon power should lighten up the road so I can see in darkest northern nights

Its really been a big electrical mess whole weekend. I managed to change the central locking motor from FL door after I had taken everything out from there.

I reconditioned a window lifter unit. The old one was shot... it was lacking power in a serious way. Could barely lift the glass. Now it works like new



Door without lifter unit showing the crash bars and you can see how sticky it is from all that waxoyl. And yes the window has 35% tint applied to it.




Glassfibre wing. Waiting for better times...


Very heavy as you can see... my dad is holding it.


Hmmm... interesting...



All chrome lists installed.

Mint calipers... painted RED!!!


But... You cant even see the calipers very well so who gives a damn... except MOT guy who thinks its some sort of a race car and will fail me.




Ouch little bit troublesome... Stupid handbrake cable braket touches the watts linkage. I have to bend it a lot to get the cable out of the way.


Yes its 245 wide even it looks narrow.


Hmmh... I also happened to find a door card in better shape from our warehouse than my current rear left one.


ARARQARARR"#%Rtgewu65 some granny-rapest has installed set of speakers to my parcel shelf. Pisses me off! The problem is that I cant find a correct coloured replacement from anywhere.



YAY it starts looking like a car finally...

Thank you all for comments. Today has been a busy day for me. I've been modding the front doors front channels so I can bolt Rover 800 mirrors to them. I dont like of the old fashioned look of the original parts and instant when I saw the 800 series mirrors I saw a clear picture in my mind of bolting them to SD1. We had a debate of the looks with another finnish SD1 fellow and he said they will look awful etc etc and I cant make them fit. Well anyways the process was really simple and only took few hours of cutting, drilling and carving with my fake-dremel tool. I still have to figure out the electrics which seem to be a pain in the butt but I hopefully can work them out.



Original mirror! The "small-foot" model.



800 series mirror.






The modified channel. I have so many of these channels here so I can hack them about without a single thought. Like some 6 pairs.

Not much visible has been made since my last post but I've been messing around with the handbrake mechanism.

I piled up all the door handles I could find into one place.


I test fitted a Jaguar 4-pot caliper to front to see what needs to be done for it to fit. Now I need a 285mm jaguar disc from somewhere or get pieces machined so i can use 298mm grooved/cross drilled discs.



This little metal piece is supposed to hold the cables to the car body.





I yet havent finished the "y-piece" handbrake cable but thats going to be done tomorrow hopefully.

Also I tested how it would look when I painted the indicators base black with the clear lenses. I think im going to use the black based version of the indicators.

That looks great mate, loads of great work going on.

The front head lights, the rover 800 mirrors, and the front clear indicators loogs good

Today I was checking out my bumpers how they look like and front bumper has little problem OUCH!! Im missing 2 bolts... Luckily I found them from the iron that attaches to the car so they can be fibered back in place.




Also my blinkers are bit on the slow side...

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Heres video of my central locking control on BOTH front doors. Very useful I know... but had nothing else to do but make video of it.

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Busy day... Im having a "long weekend" and hopefully whole next week holiday from army so there will be more progress etc etc.

All of my buttons are converted to LEDS now... their like 10x brighter than with the incandescant lamps. So now their actually visible in the dark. Not too bright but visibly bright so they wont blind you nor distract driving... I drove one club members vitesse for one day and at dark it really bothered me how FREAKING HORRIBLE the lighting of the dashboard was. Could barely read the speedo what it said. Thats why all the gauges are getting leds later when its their turn to be under work.
Heres example of only one button.



Can anyone tell me where these go?


Just loads of pictures of my interior parts...
















New windscreen waiting for its turn...



Almost all the interior parts are just perfect only the rear seat needs a wash. I got almost new door cards for every door except the drivers door which I have to sort something out to get good to that too. We got some vitesse door cards and light brown door cards in almost mind condition in our attic so Im propably going to paint one of them to match my interior.

Okay... heres something for you all to see. A Rover 800 electric mirrors mini-loom... spent 3 hours thinking about the old mirror wiring and how to make it compatible with Rover 800 mirrors. The Rover 800 mirrors have 4 wires to control the movement of the mirror glass.. where the SD1 seems to only have 3 (what the ****?). After a lot of metering with multimeter and trying with test pen I decided that I hell am NOT going to loose my sanity over such a minor thing... so another option was to go hack my broken 800 into meat again. I took the drivers door wiring harness and the button panel and started tracing where the mirror wires go to. After some 15 minutes of taking the door loom apart I found out the mirror controlling system was super simple and very easily adapted to be used in my SD1. If anybody got questions about it I can answer (doubt anybody has?)

Heres some very bad pictures... my N95 lense was covered in rustprevention wax!






Also while I was farting in the warehouse and seeking rare parts I noticed this newer type heater unit. It seems to be significantly better design than the older one. The heater matrix is attached with 2 screws and removable from the side of the unit on the LH side of the car (could be troublesome for me?). Also theres less steel parts which means lighter and less rusting unit. My old one already had rust inside it! Not sure howmuch but im assuming its 1-1.5kilos lighter.