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pulled the front off to see the differences between the 1600 and 1500 fronts, I transferred the mounting points for the top trim and put some rivnuts in, the 1600 headlight trim mount and outer headlight fouls the 1500 top trim from sitting into place. Then after looking at how twisted the top trim is thought I would leave it for now and carry on tiding up the other pieces and try find a better top trim or maybe look at making a mould to make a fibreglass top trim, Can buy them but quite pricey at 300 usd plus postage.

Amazing how bad that Imp was, and all the new panels you can get for them in the UK. That EFI set-up they put on looked pretty fancy too.

awesome, never come across this show before. I know what I'm watching tonight now.

Nice work man, Those bumper tops turned out awesome!

Allways loved your rx4 coupe, look forward to seeing what you have done on the rx2 so far

That aircleaner is awesome work nice! Looks sweet on the whitewalls and hubcaps too

Cool wagon mate, are you going to keep the flat head in it?

thats a sweet looking engine bay!

cheers mate! I replaced all the universal and hanger bearing when first put it together (probably 5 years ago now haha)but it wouldnt of even travelled a 1000km yet, possibly might even need some more use to free up, i think they have grease nipples might give them a couple pumps. its not bad at all now it still looks a little bit out of line so might see if there is something i can do to line it up better and see if it is completely gone

slowly making a start on getting all the B1500 front ready to swap over in-between doing jobs around the house, starting to clean up the headlight surrounds and grill pieces ready to paint. Will need to take some measurements of where the headlight bucket mounts and grill mounts are before removing them to clean up, also need to drag out the b1500 front guards and compare them to see if I can modify the b1600 ones to work with the indicators and headlight brow otherwise it won't be happening for awhile if need to use the other guards and paint them to match. also cleaned up a spare steering column rubber thats in really good nick, will make a plug where the column shift shaft went, going to start trying to seal up the cabin and put grommets where needed before sound deaden the cab

Bit gutted didn't make it to that Blenheim show! looked really good from your photos I think my old boy took his Chevrolet over for it. are you going to do something similar to the viva dash using a later model cars dash parts? or aftermarket to convert to electronic?

@BJ4RYD mate this thing is so nice! love what you have done with it.

@BJ4RYD nice 808 mate, do you have a build thread on the REPU? very cool pick up

cool to see this is about to get some love, I love these things so much almost bought one in Europe to bring back with me. really wish I had never sold my rx4

graphics look good man nice work

nice I will look into doing that

nice car mate, some cool photos by the lake. be interested how much of a difference that underlay makes I need to do something similar had thought of getting some of that kilmat sound deadening or do something like what you have done

Gave it a good wash after sitting around so long, might try raise it 40ish mm in the front to get it sitting level and have a bit more travel before the bump stops.

gearbox is back in, 4.3 diff in, round port exhaust manifold on and new hanger bearing. Drives so much nicer no rattles or whines from the gearbox now, so much quieter without the exhaust leak and the manifold, the hanger bearing has got rid of 90% of the vibration and the diff has dropped the revs down at 100ish enough to happily to sit on that (have a tacho to hook up and see what its doing). will possibly get the driveshaft balanced next to see if can get rid of it completely, but it doesn't really bother me at all now. have some near new 185r14c tyres I think might try on it to drop the revs slightly more and see what its like. would happily daily drive it now, flew through a wof yesterday to sit parked up for a month. hopefully over the next four weeks will tidy up the disc brake set up off the courier and get them ready to go on. might have a go at painting the dash now that Alex has plated the ugly hole that was cut in it. while it was up on the hoist for the wof I got a photo of the driveshaft line its slightly offset, anyone know if this is fine? I'm pretty sure I've seen other old cars with the tail shaft of the gearbox further offset from the diff than this but they may have been single piece driveshafts.

Also hanger bearing swapped over, really hoping this gets rid of that vibration!

Manifold has had the extra piping cut off and plug welded, hole in the down pipe flange has been tapped and a bolt locktite in then cut of flush.

ready to go back in the hole, looked pretty good internally only replaced the bearings and the seals. Also with @Slacker_Sam.'s help managed to track down a hanger bearing that looks to be what I need, fingers crossed it solves the vibration.

so cool mate love your Kombi hope to get one someday!

nice, how did you cap your's? was thinking of getting a bolt close in size and cutting out a section of the bolt shaft and welding it in? should weld ok if welding to the pipe and not the cast

Also cleaned up the round port manifold, trying out some por15 manifold paint this time the VHT flameproof is flaking off the last manifold I painted (maybe I didn't prep it well enough I can't remember), after looking in the engine bay I think the pipes coming out the side are going to foul the engine mount so might need to cut them short and plug weld them