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....

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

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.........
 

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

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 

exciting cant wait for the pics.
have you built the engine yet

It's starting to look a bit more of a car now as opposed to a bare shell....... Got the rear wiring, lights, headlight mounts and quarter windows in. Its slow going but nice to be fitting new parts to a clean shell. All the panel prep has paid off, its dead straight now, very happy with it.......... another Saturday well spent................

Feel like I'm just chipping away at the moment but things are coming along nicely.
Got the rear bumper and numberplate mount on, the bumper took a whole arvo to get it gapped and hung straight, slowly tightening one bolt, loosening another etc....
The battery box and electrical cut off went in then came straight out again, the bolts are visible from the outside and while they were nice stainless they screamed 'gutter bolt' I ended up using round headed stud types, much better
Some of the underdash has gone in along with the aerial and windscreen wipers, I couldn't find the plastic washers for the wipers so ended up using nylon tap washers, you'd never know....
Under the bonnet I've polished the vin plates, put on some decals (thanks Spanner they're perfect) and painted the vin number silver as it should be.
Finished riveting the nosecone and chrome strips on the doors, It's getting expensive using marine stainless nuts, bolts and rivets but I'm glad I'm doing it.
Windows were going to be this weekend but I've had the run around from rare spares with the bailey channel, they sold me the wrong kit then only had enough for one door on the shelf, two week wait for the others, bummer.....
Anyway that's it for now, heading out to the shed to finish buffing the sill trims....
Cheers Drew......