A massive thank you to Thomas at Edelschmiede for locating me a very had to find oil pressure adaptor for the Manta A. I had been searching for ages for one of these and he found a brand new one 🙂               and while is was arranging with Thomas the delivery i had a quick look on his site http://www.edelschmiede.com/shop/ just in case there was anything i needed. What am i talking about, just in case!! £100 later and i had lots of new parts on my list for Thomas to send as well. If…

So after a little vacation for the Opel its now back but in our new home. A better garage and a nice flat drive. So it will soon be time to get back working on the Opel. Im planning on having her ready for a proper tune-up in the spring, lets see how we get on 🙂

I have always hated the clutch cable crossing over the engine on the a series and wanted to get rid of it and fit a hydraulic clutch, but have found it hard to find any info on someone fitting one. So i did a google and looked at other cars using the wilwood pull cylinder to get some ideas. I decided on an external slave cylinder as its such a pain to drop the 5 speed gearbox on the A if i did have issues. So a plan was hatched. i decided a bracked that bolted to the engine and…

Finally after months of waiting for CJS enginerring in ferndown (not speedy engineers) they have managed to finish the adapters to fit my wilwood calipers! So any hopes of getting the manta running for the summer are long gone! They do look spot on, so now its off to the cars temp home this weekend for a test fit. All i need then are the correct bolts and a couple of 90 degree goodridge fittings and then i should be able to test the brakes!!

We’re off to a temporary home for a bit. The first time the car has been out of the garage since, i think it was 2002!!