Exhaust Silencer, Lambda and bits & bobs

Lots done this bank holiday - getting closer to first start, the ECU and Clocks are on order and hopefully arrive before the weekend.

First job of the day was to set my stall up, took the car out of the garage as I knew the manifold would require some careful measuring and cutting:

Next job was to mark where the manifold needs to be cut based on the rear mount, I had some scrap aluminium in the garage which I used against the side of the car just in case:

Excess removed with my dremmel and the extension, great piece of kit.  Next was onto the rear exhaust mount which needs to be drilled from underneath.  I was planning on making up a template and then drilling through from the top, however as I only get one shot at it I put the rear on axle stands:

Then went for a pilot hole using my right angle adaptor

The manifold needs a bit of lube as its a tight fit, it must be done before final fitment of the rear bracket.  Nice and neat:

Looking good:

Next onto the lambda sensor.  I read on a couple of blogs that this needs to be kept connected to the sensor at all times due to the sensitivity of the device; I haven't confirmed this although chose to go with it.  First task was to mark a pilot hole in the side:

The lamda sensor is the same size as a washer so I used that as template, masked it up and then opened up the hole with a mix of drill bits and eventually the dremel, nice and neat:

The three rivet holes allowed me to attach a clam shell which finishes off the hole nicely:

Looking good:

There were a handful of other jobs completed this weekend that dont really warrant pictures, one of which was the driveshaft - this must be split into two as it simply doesn't fit into the tunnel without. 

I didn't have to remove either the gearbox or the diff to get it in and that's another thing ticked off.

I think I'll do some work on the centre console and aux switches as these can be done indoors before my ECU and Clocks arrive.   Getting excited now :)