After much ‘too and fro’ with various setbacks and ‘put rights’ the Scimitar bursts into life albeit a bit noisy! Now we knew it would run, next job is to go through the raft of jobs to do, come up with a plan with the owner and get cracking 😎👍🏼. #megasquirt #reliant #fordbop #restomod #custommade #classiccar

More pipes, cables and testing testing testing. The unseen work that goes unnoticed, but is actually more important than the bits you see 😎

Update on the Senator revival. This project has had to sit a while gathering dust unfortunately, but the time came to get this 90’s big 6 back to her former glory. First off was to renew the suspension bushes all round, treat her to new shocks up from and overhaul the braking system. A new exhaust silencer was needed, but because these are no longer made one was trialed courtesy of a Vauxhall Omega, which by chance only needed the mounts modifying to give a perfect fit. After which the underneath was given a liberal waxoil along with the cavities to keep the tinworm at bay for a while. Next on the list will be get the old girl ready for paint 😉

Since the wee Viva has had a 600% power increase I thought the standard 1256 axle may need to be looked at 🤣 So a 4HA from a reliant Scimitar was sourced and then modified to suit. A combination of a tall gearset and Jaguar ‘powerlock’ diff will mean that cruising to shows and managing double figures maybe possible lol. After narrowing the axle 4.5″ overall by myself and having a local company re-spline the half shafts the diff itself was rebuilt & set up by AJS Engineering services who I would highly recommend.