Well, finally, the 10v has an MOT
Six days after the last update we got flooded, and at that point most of the bell housing bolts, subframe bolts, suspension bolts etc was sat in my bolt tray underneath the car, so they all turned into a rusty mess once the water crept into the building. Many thanks to Craig from AL for digging out replacements for me.
Eventually we got sorted out from the flood and managed to get the rest of the work completed, so it has now got a 6-speed gearbox with the Q2 moved over from the 5-speed, new clutch, new rear engine mount, both driveshafts replaced with low mileage ones, re-booted and joints re-packed with grease, amazingly the flywheel was perfect! New driveshaft seals & O-rings, new Koni FSDs at the front as they had all done over 100k and one was leaking, new front top mounts, new lower wishbones, new upper wishbones, new droplinks, while the suspension was out we removed the plastic arch liners & jet-washed inside the arches and ground all the rust back to bare metal, treated with Jelonite, then zinc primered and two coats of underseal. New GTA front anti roll bar with 23mm Powerflex bushes, I've got an Eibach roll bar to go on the rear which needs to be done, those trailing arms & hub bushes passed the MOT but I will still do them when I get around to fitting the rear Konis.
GTA leather interior swapped for black (red stitching) Sport Recaros, battery to boot conversion finished off with new custom-made power & earth cables and the straight through rear exhaust section modified to clear the battery box, I used an original 156 chrome tip in the end so it looks stock for now.
Still to sort out is the air intake to turbo which I want to straight-pipe, the rear suspension as mentioned above, I want to put a new windscreen in it as it has 212k miles worth of chips, front end needs painting, she needs a new set of headlights, I am still thinking about facelift front end conversion and I need to mount a discreet slimline subwoofer into the parcel shelf.
But alas my 2.0 TS Sportwagon has decided it wants to leak clutch fluid from its concentric slave cylinder, so that is now coming off the road and the 10v will have to do me for daily-drive duties. The Twinspark has been consuming 1L of engine oil per 300-600 miles depending on driving style for the last 70k miles, and the gearbox hasn't been right for sometime either, and its due a cambelt, so given all that I have decided to treat it to a new heart & lungs, courtesy of a rotten '99 Fiat Coupe 20v turbo