I need to do the headlining in both my P38 and the CX ;-)

That's because Britpart buys huge loads of air springs from Dunlop, so you don't have to. They just box them up and ship them out.

Apparently polybushes only last a couple of months and give pretty horrible handling.

Sounds like a good idea. I'm going to shift this topic to Opening Time because it's probably a bit more appropriate there, and set up a Classifieds forum.

... how important are they? I've got a set of manifolds with burst flexis (driver's side way worse than passenger side) and I was thinking about just cutting them out, bolting the manifolds to a scrap head, and welding in a straight bit of tube.

How much do they actually need to flex? If I use hex bolts to hold them on it's a damn sight easier to get to the one behind the steering column shaft.

Congratulations!

that was on the way to mymysteri's house

Did you get her sorted?

Fixed now.

Another thing I've forgotten to automate ;-)

I've had wrong bits from "name brand" aftermarket suppliers. I can't in all honesty say that Britpart are all that bad.

I haven't done anything to it yet...

Backups are done at 3am every morning and archived to a cloud storage provider. I'll dig into it in the morning!

We did try using the head bolts but then the eyes stuck out too far to let us get it out of the car boot. There's not a lot of weight in the engine and we only really needed to lift it up a little to get it over the lip of the boot, and lower it to the ground.

Nice work! I've seen people pay good money to have worse welding than that ;-)

On mine the box is just a box with the amp on the side, and the speakers are screwed and glued. Bishop Sound do a nice 6.5" woofer that fits, although the magnet is a little smaller - the ones in mine look like the door woofers.

Okay, I'll probably go with a four-wire sensor for a Citroën Xsara / Pug 406 since there are a couple sitting out in the yard at work with significant parts of the bodywork already removed, which I can lop the plugs off.

Wonder if the blend motors are the same? I guess I could ask the guys to cut the dashboard out so I can have a look :-)

I'm thinking about fitting a third lambda sensor just for the gas ECU to mine. A few folk seem to have zirconia sensors in an extra sensor bung welded to the Y-pipe.

Any particular recommendations, or just whatever cheap generic single-wire lambda sensor I can pick up? Would it be better with a heated sensor?

Fixed, seems to be an odd bug triggered by deleting posts. At least I've got logs to rummage through ;-)

I took mine out when I was doing the gas - I had the boot carpet out and it was wet underneath so I took it all out to get it dry and give it a clean.

You need all the seats out, the centre console out and I think the plastic bit under the dash centre out. There are some cable ties at the back behind the heaterbox that you can just reach that stops the very front end from dropping down - it "stitches" the front together.

Is this with the silencer off? Put your finger over the silencer port. Air will be coming out because the NRVs are shot.

No, just the wiper arms and I think I ended up taking out the plate with the wiper mechanism on it.

The clip-on trim along the bottom needed to come off though.

On mine the foam stuff on the plenum grille was gone and the ends of the plenum were full of dead leaves and compost. The drain holes were thoroughly blocked where they run into the wheel wells.