Well as you all know by now, this car has it in for me and low and behold on saturday it gave me hell:mad.

So off to the garage at 7.30am on Saturday and fitted the crank with no issues apart from trying to work out the figures on the torque wrench:confused, which i got my head around after reading the instruction about 50 times :hihi, so onto the piston install, no issues on fitting, but the crank was becoming very hard to turn and by the time i had install all the pistons and torqued the nuts, the crank would not movemad, so went back over the hole lot and found that the bloody con rods did not fit grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, so thats another weekend f******d.

Well after a few hours off feeling like my world had ended, i decided to use the original rod and pistons, but this meant filing the damaged tops down, filing the piston ring groves out, as the damaged had caused them to close and then remove and replace all of the piston rings and oil rings from one set of pistons to another, what bloody mission, but at last after hours of work i managed to not break anything:thumbsup:thumbsup.

So after fitting the old stuff the build went really well:thumbsup:thumbsup, still got a few things to paint and finish, but at lease its coming together and at last all is fitting like a glove, thank god:thumbsup:thumbsup

So here's a few photo's









Thanks for looking guys and could this be the turning piont off my bad luck, i bl****y hope so:thumbsup:thumbsup

Looking good ralph..I really hope this is it mate..You certainly deserve it to start happening for you..Well done..Ziga

looking great, these;s car like a jigsaw puzzle , so many bits ,

Evening Guys
Well managed to get the bay premiered only, but the signs are pretty good, only a couple of areas to re-fill and before you ask i have not painted the window area as don't want to deal with too much over spray lol, i also managed to start on cleaning up the soaking wet interior, not supprised really as the car has not been in the garage for 3 weeks and what with all the rain it has soaked the underlay which i have removed, just need to pop down to caterham cars and pick up some new stuff, cheers



Interior



Thanks for looking

Hi Wedgle1
Engine has been completely re-built using new parts, so has had new mains, big ends, small ends, cam bearings, crank seals etc and that picture
was when i got the block back from being cleaned and honed lol, cheers

Morning Guys
Well as i am cleaning up the interior i thought i would re-paint the seat bases as they are rusted to hell:frown, so spent yesterday evening pulling them apart which was pretty easy as they have clearly been apart before due to the amount of cable ties holding the seat bases tight:eek, 1 of the headrest is damage and will pop up the trimmers to see if i cant get it sorted and i think whoever brought the car new went for the cheap vinyln:mad









Thanks for looking

they look the same as my ones, if i buy another wedge, it be a vrigin one thats never see the wet

Hi Superwedge
well being 22 years old mate i would expect some rust being a vert , so a quick clean up and paint and job done, thank god the car is made of fiberglass as there would have been little left of the floor lol, cheers

Hi Guys
well the seats are completed so another job done, was a bit fiddly but got there in the end, there not perfect but after 22 years of wear they don't look so bad:thumbsup just need to get some new nuts and bolts and back in they go tomorrow



Thank for looking:thumbsup

Hi Adam
Cheers mate, me too, i have a show to go to with some off my Bmw mates on the 15th june and the car is booked on a stand place http://www.uxbridgeautoshow.com/galleries.html so it has to be finished and Mot'ed by then still am nearly at the putting back together stage, right best get down the paint shop and get the engine bay finished. cheers Ralph