SRowells Black Rallye

[Eeyore]

Managed to get some time working on the car today. Put back in the superglued together centre console. It fits really well and its all bolted in securely now. Clock back in along with buttons. Cigaratte lighter wouldnt fit as i should have fitted it before gluing it together however a few bits of plastic cut and a cable tie to secure and it was done. Also replaced the lower panel with a spare i had which removed the LED and the hole that was drilled in it for the non functioning alarm.



It came with a clarion headunit but not the code. I dug out my spare clarion head unit and that also had no code... I ended up fitting my kenwood headunit with a replacement loom after i broke the last one. luckily only £6. Set the colours to be the standard orange same as the dash and clock.



I then wanted to fit my focal 165vs. They consist of a crossover woofer and tweeters. The rallye has manual mirrors so i couldnt mount the tweeters there and i didnt want to mount them on the dash or cut holes in the door cards. My idea was to fit my spare electric mirrors as they can be pushed into place. I removed the manual one on the passenger side and fitted the electric one. Door cards removed and the doors are untouched! Seems to be some weird connector which im not sure what it does.




Then i went back on myself. I decided that removing the mirror stalks didnt look particularly rallyeish. I tested the sound quality between the full system and just the woofer wired in and there was a difference but anything has to be better than stock. Fitted the manual mirror again. Door card on. Speaker spacer on and speaker in!



Cover on! Also found the window winders are no different to 5 door rear ones. Replaced the faded original ones with some newer ones.



Whilst I had my box of spare interior bits out I found a replacement map light as the one that came with the car had been all smashed up.




As it was getting dark I took some pictures to measure up the rallye decals which i am going to reproduce. Shouldnt be difficult and I have the vectors ready to cut. Just need to get them the right size!



Final dark shot! Will have to do some photography things soon. Anyway good progress, not a large amount of work for the time it took as I spent a lot of time listening to the charts to try and warm up. Also found that once the car got up to 100 degrees the radiator started loosing coolant. Ill have to keep my eye on that. 3 more days of work to come hopefully!