1984 Granada BOA; small progress & Civic 25/10/24

Well, managed to sneak in a few more hours today. Spent a little bit of time sorting out the clutter and storage items in the sheds and made a bit more space.

Then gave the rear valance a knocking down and a coat of primer. Also prepped the drivers side front wing mounting rail and primered that too. Also managed to get a lick of rattle can paint on there too, only to come back after my cup o tea to find a pair of paw prints in the middle from next doors curious cat

Wing was popped in place to check fit and panel gaps







Not too bad, and workable. Certainly better at the top of the drivers door with the wing profile at least




Also gave the glass a clean off and found loads of specs of underseal on the windscreen.
And also drilled the stainless mounting plate for the CD changer in the boot. The speaker amp is screwed down as well, went for a more forward mounting location under the seat, so wayward feet in the back don't attack it
It is mounted and plumbed in in this pic, honestly

no roof at all mate, all reinforcing was done under the sills which were removed then reinforced underneath, then re fitted so u don't see any structural work. I would like too make a fibreglass roof like the original but removable think it would be cool.

always nice to see shiny bits on a car

Hopefully with the baffles and the pair of one-way ball valves in the tank it should cure the fuel starvation issues when turning left with half a tank

I was going to get it fitted at the weekend, but decided against it with the covering of snow and didn't fancy icy cold water dripping on to me

The red paint in the last few pics above is a penetrant spray to check for any holes apparently, I may just fit the sender unit and invert the tank with some fuel in there to be certain before I fit it, and then find out there's a leak somewhere whilst on a petrol station forecourt

Still need to remove the exhaust so I can wrap the manifolds up and also fit the heat exchanger and filter arm back on. Been meaning to get that done for as long as the ole girl has been off road!

Nope
Not even tempted to either! Although it did get a wire brushing around the outlets to get rid of many years of accumulated curse word

Nope, it won't. IT will be fitted as is That I can assure you of mr

besides, you can only see a slither of the back of it when it is fitted anyway

So the weather was almost nice yesterday so I snuck in a few hours on the car. First port of call was to get a pair of axle stands from Halfords so the front can be up in the air to get underneath

So the plan is to get the manifolds off to wrap them and to refit the module cooler and oil filter arm I took off many years ago.
I'm wrapping the exhausts as on the drivers side, the primary go either side of the steering column shaft and the UJ has been dried out and made the steering a tad notch




Soothe exhaust fittings all got a squirt some weeks ago with some GT85 that was in the shed and again yesterday with a bit of wd40 and the silencers are off. Also managed to get the nearside manifold off easily as well

The drivers side manifold is an to get to, and I only have deep sockets or swan neck spanners at home to try and undo them with

Managed to sneak a few hours at work cleaning up the nearside manifold ready for wrapping this week
Nothing major, just cleaning up the welds and filing down some weld splatter on the primaries!





Hopefully get it fully wrapped and ready to go back in if there isn't too much work booked in tomorrow morning

Thank you kind sir
Although they could do with a refresh really as most of the paint on their backs has come off now