Intake Installed

Thought I had better post an intake pic.
You can see the two intake pipes each side of the radiator, here they get nice fresh air from the front of the car.
Eventually when I replace the rad with a lower one, the intake will get air from above the radiator.
Does the job for now though!

Steering Rack installed

Installed the rebuilt rack, made a tool to do a wheel alignment, set to 3mm Toe out for awesome turn in.
Took the 7 out for a drive and what a difference, lots more feedback, self centers perfectly.
A job worth doing thats for sure.

Steering Rack Rebuild

Checked my Steering rack as it got noted during a wof that there was a little play!
Turned out the rack ends were worn and the main tube had quite a bit of slop.
Upon removal from the car it became apparent that the threaded rods on the rack ends had been badly made.
The thread was made on a tapered rod so that as the rod tapered off the threads got finer!
I was told by the friendly crew at Autosteer in Frankton that this is quite dangerous and you could actually see that only around 10mm of thread was actually being used.
New bushes to the tube, new rack ends custom machined to length/diameter and she's good as new!
Although I could have done without the $220!
While I am at it, I lubed the steering column as it has always been quite hard to turn.  Hopefully this will help with self centreing, something my car never really had.  If this doesn't fix it, then I will have to reset the caster to suit!

Cold Air Box

Now my intake is complete, I have been working on a Cold air box which is to be fitted at the front of the car just behind the radiator and will take cold air from around the sides via ducting that gets cold air from the nose.
See image below for the basic outline.

I'll post some pics of the finished article shortly.