Pre-competition update:
Amongst many other things at the weekend I took my bonnet off to paint it and put it back on again. As I was doing this by myself on a windy day I decided not to bother with the spacers that jack up the rear of the bonnet and just put it back as standard. I just tightened the 4 nuts up finger tight, lowered the bonnet and gently nudged it with a hammer and a block of wood until all the panel gaps were even. Then I lifted the bonnet really gently and torqued up the nuts.
It's lined up better now than at any time sice I bought it, despite the crashes and non-standard front bumper. It looked so good I even raised my pop-up covers to match so the front end of the car now looks like the front end of a car, rather than some bits in a heap.
Other recent mods are: carbon cover for the space where the stereo was which also houses the window switches (now the centre console is in the bin), bonnet pins holding the boot down and when the post arrives I should have a new silicon heater hose to replace my perished standard one which I'll fit with a length of aluminiumised cloth as it's about an inch from the turbo downpipe.
Confusingly my window switches now say "down" at the top and "up" at the bottom. I'm sure I'll get used to it before I burn the motors out.
Just got to fit the competition tyres, fill the boot with tools and spares, fit four wheels in the car somewhere and I'm done.
Pictures of it on track at BDC Teeside early next week via DoriStars.com
