Moving house next week so at the moment the RS is resembling a trailer, the first bit a packing I did was the car, haha gotta get the priorities right The new place only has a single garage, but an enormous powered and lit workshop, maybe not such a good thing, I can see some all nighters on the cards....
The new engine is on the stand and being stripped before a trip to the machine shop to be checked before building....
Times at a premium at the moment, looking forward to a break over Christmas to get in and tidy up some loose ends in the car....

Well the cars taught an old dog a few more tricks, I've done a bit of painting before but not to this extent, I've borrowed a compressor and spray gun from a mate, boothed off the garage and started prepping, priming and spraying sundry parts. Bit of a learning curve, first time I've used 2pak. Alls going well although I did make a mess of the cam cover and had to start again.
The pedal box is back together with new nolathane bushes and pedal rubbers.
Had to make new rubbers for the splash guards secured with stainless wire and new stainless screws.
Starter was re-bushed and re assembled. Test fire went well, all works fine
Got the headlight assembly back together with help from a diagram on the site, stainless screws once again. I've fitted modern 'angel eye' headlamps with ultra white globes. Really in two minds about this, I think they look a bit modern but I've always wanted decent lighting on the car. Still to decide whether they stay as I 've got a nice set of original lights aswell. Will post a pic of the test fit and them working.
Next is to rebuild the vacumn booster for the brakes and box all the other bits
.....anyway thats next weekend.............

Post details of how you do the vacumn booster mate. I'd like to do this one day too. Cheers

Looking good Drewdog!
 
Was the pedal box straight forward? I'm about to do mine in the next week. Also noticed your accelerator pedal arm is grey, was it like that originally or did you choose to paint it a different colour? I really like it grey. Mine is black with the rest of the box so thats why it caught my eye.
 
Cheers,
Ryan

Thanks guys,
I'll get a few pics of the booster as I'm going, it should be the same as the one I did on the Cortina a while back, from memory the hardest bit was getting it open as it's pressed together. Most of the recon guys cut them open and use a clamping band to get it back together which I'm not real keen on....
Ryan, I'm pretty sure it was originally silver or at least mine was, I almost painted it black, but I'm glad I didn't now. It was an easy job just make sure you write down the sequence of the washers and spacers to save a heap of head scratching The nolathanes are heaps fatter than the originals and it was a two person job to get it all squeezed back together and the last clip put back in.
Cheers Drew.........
 

Accelerator rod was unpainted (or silver) when new.

Ok cheers guys, and thanks for the heads up Drew much appreciated.
 
Keep the pics coming, will be a very nice car once complete
 
Ryan

A TRIP TO THE CHROME SHOP.....
Well I wasn't happy with the headlight bezels so I bit the bullet and had them re-finished. Theres only one chrome shop I'll use here in perth, his work is second to none, so are his prices though. I went to drop them off and get a price, he pulled out the calculator, hit a few buttons, smiled and took a whole weeks car budget off me. I honestly think he just typed in 'B00BIES' then pulled a number out of his head I'm not knocking him, they are perfect.
 
Spent the rest of my Saturday cleaning glass, I've got a full set of factory tint which came up great with some CLR and a heap of elbow grease.
I've also started smoothing the cast marks out of the mirrors, the one on the left of the pic is finished. Its always bothered me so I'm happy to do them. They'll be painted at the same time as the car........
That's it for another week..... Drew.....

We're getting close now, after doing a heap of extra hours at work and a lot of searching, I've found a painter and have the money to pay him....... The car goes in the week after next..... Woohoo!!!!!!
It's all bar a shell now, this was the first time the nosecones been off, it complied really well and only took a bit of crc, I was quite surprised. Engine comes out tomorrow then I've just got a bit of tidying up and I need to por15 the inside of the doors, theres not going to be much sleep tonight I'll be out there at the crack of dawn tomorrow 

Congrats!  Let me know when the painting is done, as I'd love to come see it sometime.