8v Update

Managed to make it to the small car parts shop around the corner from home before it closed tonight after work and picked up a brake union spanner. A couple of blasts of heat from the blowtorch and a swift thwack and I managed to get the unions undone. Opened up all the bleed nipples and left the system to drain. Finished the work on the seized torx bolts so with both old brake discs and calipers removed I’m ready to fit the new parts.

The new Sony head unit turned up for the interior. I was quite excited about this getting it plugged in, but perhaps foolishly I had hoped that it would just be plug and play. Not in my case as the cabling has been butchered by a previous owner. I may have to dig through my bag of excess wiring that has come out of the 16v to find the connectors and then it’s a case of getting the soldering iron out to repair the cables.