An update from Africa

Its been a bit radio silence from me for the past month or so. Been stuck in Mozambique earning the pennies for the Camaro (and living, i guess), but i found some last minute pics i threw on flickr before i left, so will pop them up and update!

First up, i doubled the MR2's horsepower. An often overlooked modification, just be careful to purchase the green one as the red one just makes your car impossible to park:

On to more pressing matters, i found that i was getting a constant puddle in  the footwell. It caused some alarm to be honest as i had suspicions it was due to a leaking heater matrix and really didnt fancy hauling the dash out to fix it. An afternoon cleaning her after vax'ing out the puddle and i found the puddle grown again! We have a leak! Carpet back and it was sourced to above the throttle pedal. Baws. Needless to say its probably a very inacesable bit of rust, so the solution for now is ductape over the vents below the window wipers. Crude but effective!

So all sorted there for now, and the keys left with the other half so she can enjoy the fruits of my labour as i trudge away in Africa.

The Merc has been (and still is) occupying the garage space on my side. Wheels have now been sourced and springs are already here, so just to sort the paint out. I could have addressed all the little rust spots but i decided it easier to just respray the whole car. One patch beyond repair was the front wing. 40 quid from Euro Car Parts and a new one was on.

The other side is a lot better so before i left i made the decision to run with it, but as i write this i reckon i will just throw a wing on the other side too once i'm back and save myself a rust fight.
The rest of the car is almost completely flattened now:

...just the bumpers and a bit of filler to do on some of the deeper rust repairs. Lookin forward to getting it sorted and looking good, but mostly to just getting it the hell out and finally starting on the Camaro!!!