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We’re just messing around 🙂

Somewhat bad picture showing the original grounding points. I think the car could use some more grounding points to distribute currents evenly. The new battery is mounted with battery mounting kit and tied with nylon straps to give more support. 1. Chassis grounding point. In this picture, I’m still missing the metal clip which secures the huge connector just below the grounding point. 2. Engine/gearbox grounding point. One of the bolts securing the thermostat housing works as a grounding point. Green arrow pointing towards front end.

I got my new tires! 4x Kumho Ecsta V700 (V70A) in 205/45R16

New battery and new grounding cables installed. Battery is not in its final location, this is just for testing the cables. There will be some additional crafting, because the original battery cover will not fit. The original battery cover holds two of the four points where the intercooler should mount. Battery cover corner is on the right side of this picture. It is originally painted with some kind of plastic paint, but underneath it is pressed sheet metal. And rusted beyond recongnition.

We cleaned both chassis grounding point and the one on the gearbox. Both were really oxidized, so we had to use thread tool to get rid of that gunk.

I bet no-one has ever cleaned these. This one is the chassis grounding point bolt.

Maladar fixed me a AW11 sticker! Cool! (Handlaid, three layer vinyl sticker) 🙂

Mr. V came over to our garage to pay us a visit. He had a some kind of french car with him, which I think was a Peugeot. It was a small, green and with slight bump on its right front fender. First I thought it was a green marble and tried to kick it out, but Maladar stopped me. No, actually it was a nice 206, which Mr. V mended in our garage. Slight coincidence, Mr. V had a unused Stinger SP1000 battery in the trunk, which I bought on the spot. That gave me a great excuse to build a new ground cable. And possibly, in the future – a positive lead too The original ground cable is pretty much rubbish. I have to check all the old grounding points too, because the cable shows some marks of oxidation. Our first iteration of the new ground cable was so bad, that Maladar and I made a agreement to not speak about it ever again.Insert smell of burning insulation here

Front brake caliber rebuild from last summer with Dixcel discs and pads.