Bringing you up to date.

Before I go on to show the cars current position I thought it worth picking up some previous progress I have made. These are taken from the now defunct mi16.com forum.  I did not manage to get the complete record before the data was removed when the website was closed.  I have 5 pages though.  I'll post these in chronical order.

Post May 31 2007, 11:37 PM

Thought I would share my project with you all.

I have a 1992 Phase 1 405 SRi. I had this car for several years as a daily driver whilst I was at university but it has now been off the road stuck in my Grans driveway for 6 years!

When I took it off the road it burned 1 litre of oil a week. I have since been tinkering away with it on and off with varied success.

Presently I have got the engine running again with a refurbished cylinder head (£70 from ebay!!!). It still has a fault code on it though so I will need to find out which one and rectify it.

As you would expect all the brakes were seized so I have purchased calliper overhaul kits for every corner. I have bead blasted the callipers and painted using black Hammerite. Still got this lot to finish off.

I have had some good results so far and as it is off the road I can spend time getting it back to a reasonable condition.

Anyway, here are some pics. I will post more as I go but its slow progress due to work commitments.

Some lovely green moss growing there!! 

Some before and after of calliper bits.

Thought it was starting to look reasonable here again.

I may choose to replace the springs, shocks and some bushes etc. at the front depending how they look.

Also toying with the idea of getting the wishbones painted up too.

Will keep you all posted. Having fun doing this though!

Post Jun 2 2007, 01:05 AM

Today I managed to sort the fault code. Turned out I had not plugged the temperature sensor back in, Doh ! The engine is still rough though, will rev of but idle is pretty dire.

Got the front drivers side calliper on today too. Looks great! Should have done this when the car was on the road. Also got the rear drivers side one finished and ready to go back on the car. Sorry for the poor quality pics. Never had my camera today so I had to use the phone.

 Caliper ready to go back on.

 Caliper back on the car. Looks great! Shame about the rusty spring.

Rear Caliper ready for fitting on my next free day.

Next I have to remove the calipers on the passenger side to get them refurbished. Also got a bottom ball joint to do and the rear hubs to replace. Have to do the hubs as the axle was replaced about 11 months before it went off the road. The new axle did not have ABS hubs and so the car failed its last MOT on the ABS not working. £46 each from GSF, Ouch.

 I have lost pages 2, 3 & 4.  I will try to reconstruct from memory.