Finaly all the back suspension has been fitted and is just waiting to be torqued up. But i need to have the car on the gound to do the final torque settings, so its onto all the little bits of welding on the front end and then the chassis rail front sections. The boot floor has the hole in it for the tank, which has been painted and just needs to draw now before fitting it. Then when the front suspension is back in i can lower the car and start on the brakes and fuel lines. Just finishing the…

Finally got the tank back from having the collar welded into it and its looking good. The fuel pump with internal swirl pot will sit inside this collar and allow me to run the fuel lines through the car into the boot and straight into the tank which means no messing about with pumps into swirl pots and surge problems as the new pump has the lot built into it. I will still use the original sender so that i get a correct fuel reading. All i need now it to cut the hole in the boot floor so the pump…

Its been a while since i have updated the info on here as what with holidays and work i havent had chance to post anything! the axel is finaly back in the car and i will add some pictures soon. The welding to the back end is complete and i now just have to do a bit of work on the sills and around the jack supports and it will be ready for the front suspension to go in. I have the front suspension all ready to go apart from putting in a couple of poly bushes on the lower…

Finally i have managed to take a few pictures of how the car is at the moment. Its been fully bead blasted underneath and then rust proofed with Zinga and then painted in soothrite. In not sure if i will underseal the car as im sure this can lead to problems later on as if there was any rust it does get masked by the under seal. I have also added a picture of the back axel that im rebuilding as all the running gear had the same treatment.

I now have a nice new set of front springs and cant wait to get them back on the car! just waiting for some bits for the front hubs to arrive from opel gt source and then i can get the front suspension all back together. Im just building up the back axel and will post some pics later this week. Nice new sierra 4×4 calipers going on, a fully rebuilt axel with all new bearings and a limited slip diff (only standard manta a one) and also the setup uses the standard hand brake cable! more pics later this…

The new front springs have now been made and paid for 🙁 £95 all in, vat, postage etc.. and should be here by the end of the week or monday! then i can start to put the front suspension all back together. Will take some pictures when they arrive.

New front springs: being made by http://www.springcoil.co.uk and should be ready in the next week or so. Brake and fuel lines: just need to order these tomorrow, and if your looking for good prices on goodridge stuff these guys seem good, http://www.motoscope.co.uk/diy_hoses.htm. Petrol tank: still waiting for flange to be made, should be next week i hope. Front brakes: got the discs sorted, just need to have a bracket made up, might not get time this week to pop in to the engineering company so probably next week on those, found out that the master cylinder is too large at…

Dennis at Opel GT source has been so good with helping me out with the exhaust header and other bits and has just sent a load of stuff to Florida with DHL. So all i need to do now is wait for them to get back over here in june and then i can start fitting them to the car. Think i bought more than i should have! some poly top hats, door hindge pins (just incase!) front hub inner dust covers, timing chain tensioning kit and im sure there were a few other little bits! they do so many…