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Finally the time has come! The update i've been waiting since September to finally make, the Rocket bunny kit is finally here! but before I get on to that I'm going to turn this in to a bit of a double whammy as I forgot to make an update about another part that arrived recently, i'll keep it short and sweet to get on to the big bits! I've always been a big lover of ducktail wings/spoilers rather than alot of feeble OEM wings or huge boot/chassis mounted ironing boards (BGW for short!) but i'm a bit picky when it comes to them and truthfully alot of the offerings for the 86 aren't to my taste but I found one that fit the bill.. (duck bill?.. i'll get my coat.) and ironically it turns out to be the Liberty Walk wing. The rest of the kit looks tragic but the spoiler is perfect to me and i'm sure i'll have someone tell me its sacriligous to mix Liberty Walk with Rocket bunny but who cares, it'll look epic! However the fact that what is essentially just a fairly simple glass fibre piece was eye wateringly expensive and comes with it's own certificate of authenticity says more about Liberty Walk and their Target audience than me I think.. Now to get on to the main attraction.. Had a rather fun start to the week as I took a 700 mile round trip to Germany and back over Monday/Tuesday to go get the kit. A bit unnecessary but it was my own fault for organising it this way with the supplier all the way back when I raised the order in September. I had the idea to turn it in to a week long road trip holiday, visit Bruges, Nurburgring, etc on the way but after the headache of not knowing when it would show up and various delays I decided just to forgo it and just make it a simple there and back thing and put off making a holiday with it until the spring (I still have a booking for a track car hire and Eurotunnel trip i couldn't cancel!) Anyway so here was the route, pretty easy in reality for my first time driving in Europe and surprisingly fast on the way home. When I finally arrived on Monday evening this was waiting for me. I just about got the 200cm x 75cm x 55cm box in to my Dad's X3 which I had borrowed for the trip and set off to my hotel for the night. The next morning when it was a little brighter and less windy/rainy in the Hotel car park I had to get the bits out to well.. Have a look of course! but also to fit them in the car a bit better so I could actually see where I was going! And finally after a quick trip back home I was able to get the obvious pic of the bumper sat infront of the car. Now I just have the next monumental task of trying to find a decent Garage/Barn/Unit to rent to store and work on the car. It became painfully obvious just how undersized the old single garage is when I tried to move the car about taking me a whole 15 minutes just to inch it down the drive way backwards, turn around and then inch it back up backwards again to get these pictures. The car will be milimetres at best from the walls either side between the houses with the arches and wheels are on and I think it will have 15-20cm at most between the car and the walls of the garage once it's in there so a bigger area to play is needed! but then again it feels as though I may be wishing for a lottery win instead with how difficult it's proving to find somewhere in my area... Hopefully i can get back on to giving more regular updates now that I have all the pieces to crack on but I don't really want to start any drastic work without the space available. Fingers crossed to finding somewhere SOON. I was even thinking of making a few youtube videos of my progress as it was something I wanted to do alongside this Project thread when I started but chickened out of the idea down to lack of space again and being a bit of a wuss

I reckon you've chosen a better-looking spoiler than most I've seen. I made a mistake looking at the price, though!

Okay so first of all. A tip of the hat to your dad letting you take his car over to Germany even though you'd never driven in Europe before. Secondly the body kit looks fairly subtle in the unpainted black with a carbon bonnet. Que lairy paint/wrap colour reveal? Thirdly can you actually see the easily copyable serial no. on the spoiler? Reverse the mould and make a pretty penny for a liberty walk "Style" spoiler. Sometimes I think the duck tail boot lip spoilers cost more than an actual chassis aero GT time attack scaffold attachment. Fourthly (if that's a thing) kick the car out in front of the garage and then you have loads of space to work on the body kit. Then all you need is a nice Spring weekend to fit it all up. That would make a good time-lapse '12 hours of body kit mounting'. Then wait for a dry day to slowly travel down to the fabrication shop for some bigger wheel arches to be welded in. Brakes and wheels fitted later on and before you know it your rolling to japshow in May. Engine swap over the Summer, burning tyres quicker than fuel by Autumn. You best get cracking Sam.

Didn't think about, done it!

I have my ecutek set to alert when my oil hits 115. I think that's conservative though and I suspect 120 would be fine. I'm just happy at that point to back off and let the oil cooler get fresh air over it. The other things I've done which seems to work; Is remove the rubber strip at the back of the bonnet In summer only, I put it back in winter as I didn't think I needed the extra cooling This seemed to stop my bonnet lifting at high speeds and you can also feel heat coming out of the bonnet I've also read (via Verus IIRC) that this actually doesn't do anything for cooling as it's a high pressure area Turn the air-con on. The aircon being on starts the 2nd fan in the engine bay. When I've done that in traffic I've seen the temperature drop fairly quickly.

I'll be there, albeit likely not in the 86. Make way for the Suzuki Alto 1.0 Daily! 😎

Yes we have held two meets there so far and it is a great place for a get-together. Hopefully we can come along to this. Great idea!

Happy to help you both 👍