Bobkat
1979 x1/9
A little late as the build is underway already. I picked up a low Km 1979 in August. It had been off the road for 15 or so years but is a solid car with almost no rust. Only where there are scratches. The paint is in need of a respray and will be done in Porsche Mexico Blue to kind of brighten up the OEM Fiat Blue.
The car was running but had a few carb issues (leaking like a sieve) Not too concerned about the motor as we will be doing a swap, but it has to be able to be moved around under its own power. Foolishly just pulled all the plugs and wires and distributor for replacement and could not get it running. After a lot of head scratching figured out the previous owner had de smogged the motor along with a electric fuel pump and somehow installed the timing belt 180 degrees out, and had filed a whole bunch of alternate timing marks on the cam pulley. New belt and a billet pulley and proper clocking and all good. Well good after all new proper jets.
I will have to go back through pictures to show what has been done to this point. But Coil overs, front and rear sway bars, big bumpers removed and new CF bumperetts under way, New grill and chin spoiler all fabbed up. 3D printed front hedlight fillers and copied early marker light with LEDs. Lots of other body and interior mods to come.
Everything worked on the car but decided to update all the usual wiring mods along with LEDs and LED projector headlights. Lada blade fuse bar is the last thing to do but will wait till I have the dash out for rework and refinish and brake and clutch cylinder replacement.
So the first images are of the finished wire upgrades. BWM, Headliht relay, WW relay upgrade, big horn ready. I also have two breakers and trickle charger connectors. In the image you will also notice a re location of the speedo cable ( what a stupid OEM location) to remove the tight bends and I 3D printed some flexible gromits for the new body holes. I also 3D printed all new body blug gromets.
Looking forward to sharing the build with you guys.
The car was running but had a few carb issues (leaking like a sieve) Not too concerned about the motor as we will be doing a swap, but it has to be able to be moved around under its own power. Foolishly just pulled all the plugs and wires and distributor for replacement and could not get it running. After a lot of head scratching figured out the previous owner had de smogged the motor along with a electric fuel pump and somehow installed the timing belt 180 degrees out, and had filed a whole bunch of alternate timing marks on the cam pulley. New belt and a billet pulley and proper clocking and all good. Well good after all new proper jets.
I will have to go back through pictures to show what has been done to this point. But Coil overs, front and rear sway bars, big bumpers removed and new CF bumperetts under way, New grill and chin spoiler all fabbed up. 3D printed front hedlight fillers and copied early marker light with LEDs. Lots of other body and interior mods to come.
Everything worked on the car but decided to update all the usual wiring mods along with LEDs and LED projector headlights. Lada blade fuse bar is the last thing to do but will wait till I have the dash out for rework and refinish and brake and clutch cylinder replacement.
So the first images are of the finished wire upgrades. BWM, Headliht relay, WW relay upgrade, big horn ready. I also have two breakers and trickle charger connectors. In the image you will also notice a re location of the speedo cable ( what a stupid OEM location) to remove the tight bends and I 3D printed some flexible gromits for the new body holes. I also 3D printed all new body blug gromets.
Looking forward to sharing the build with you guys.
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