New rear speakers

Here is my step by step guide to fitting rear speakers to a Chimaera.

You will need:
Balls!
Speakers (pair)
Speaker wire
Hacksaw blades (wood)
Wood drill (small)

1. Unbolt cd changer (if you have one)
2. Remove carpet from above fuel tank
3. I choose to loose my vents and put the speakers in their place - remove vents and drill holes from the boot into the cabin around the edge of the speaker template.
4. Carefully cut and break the fibreglass between the holes you've made.
5. Fit speaker.
6. You *might* have speaker connections in the nearside panel between the rear wheel and the door post. - If you do pickup your speaker connections here, run them over the wheel arch (tape in place).
7. Connect speakers
8. Enjoy

It's alive.....

Horray!

After weeksmonths of work, pain, bad advice, crap workmanship and cold weather the Chimaera is back together.

Started first time.
Next job is to get the radiator replaced/recored and switch the alternator our with my spare, because the charging light fails to go out.

Brilliant to have it back on the road.

Nearly there

My friend has been really busy so only just got the heads back.
Heli-coils look good.

Bought yes another head gasket set - head bolts and valley cover and started putting things back together today.

Heads are on - inlet manifold is on.

Just got:

• Rocker covers
• Injection system
• Pas pump
• Heater pipes
• the dreaded exhaust manifolds
• and poly vee belt

to put back on then I should be ready!

The leaking manifold bolt saga continues

What a nightmare!

After getting the manifolds off. I gave the heads to a local garage to remove the studs make sure the threads were ok.. Big mistake. They drilled and tapped the threads (badly).

I put the heads back on and found that 2 bolts (one on each side) weren't tightening up.

I removed the heads again.... and low and behold the thread was totally chewed through.

A friend (who works for an engineering firm) has kindly taken the heads and put helicoils in - I should now be able to finally get her back on the road.

One thing I have found is my radiator needs replacing. Oh well