Fuelly sick

Headed out to the Mighty Car Mods (unofficial) Meet tonight,
Earlier in the day went to Mikes and hammered the rear guards a bit as I’d noticed the tyre has been hitting.

On the way down at the Stirling turn off bridge I ran out of fuel :(, managed to limp the 500 or so metres to the Crafers BP and filled up. Drove the rest of the way to the meet at Gepps Cross no problems (25k’s). Stayed there for about 1.3hrs and headed back towards home.

Did Hindley and Rundle :P, but when I went to take off at Hutt St it died in the ass – same lack of fuel. RAA man hit the tank with a hammer and it got going again and I made it the 35ks home.

RSR-550

Fridy/Satdy

Dropped off a box of stuff to the powdercoaters today, couple brackets on the engine, some light mounting ones and the front main member. Should be ready in a week or two.

Sent a request through to Streeter for a Suzuki Sport mount kit – replacements for all 4 mounts in the engine bay, pretty sure they are slightly firmer too.

Still no luck getting windscreen out, first place I made an appointment with (who never turned up) hasn’t contacted me. Sent a SMS to reschedule and no luck yet.
Another place further away quoted me cheap < lots with no real guesses as to time.

Found a new set of wind deflectors for the doors on Yahoo Auctions, sent a request off to a local place to see how much to get in with his next container – don’t think they’d survive a postal trip.

Oh, ordered some black silicon vacuum hose off eBay for all the cars.

RSR-660  

Status: RSR660

Un-complied, incomplete.

Things to do:

  • Remove windscreen for cowl and roof rust repair
  • Paint engine bay new colour
  • Add new bump stops to new front struts
  • Press out rear control arm bushes
  • Do another lot of powder coating
  • Tar front road facing body
  • Install new front control arms and suspension
  • Rebuild steering rack with new bush
  • Install outer tie-rod ends
  • Remove old sound deadening from interior
  • Install new dynamat in interior
  • …. and many more things 🙁
RSR-660

Status: RSR550

Registered, fuelled, driven.

Things to do:

  • Swap doors with other white Alto
  • Swap tailgate with other white Alto
  • Get rear ‘seat’ re-trimmed with later style colours
  • Install boost gauge on steering column
  • Rebuild/swap steering rack
  • Install new outer tie-rods (Chinese ones still haven’t left China..)
RSR-550

Tie-rods, yumcha style

Ordered 2 sets of outer tie-rods from a Chinese company for possibly both Altos.
Total cost delivered matches cost of 2 genuine ones – undelivered.

If I’m unimpressed with the quality I’ll only use them on RSR550 and go genuine for RSR660

Update: Enquired about order status; received refund due to parts NLA

RSR-550 / RSR-660