Fresh lick of paint and cut some rubber mat to suit the floor and made some floor mats too. Try help keep noise down.

Ye they're such an upgrade to them original seats! So it's passed it's mot and developed a leak on the rear caliper on the way home, new caliper for £38 and problem sorted. A couple pics of the caliper setup for anyone that's interested, mx5 calipers are really easy to work with. Now the rubber mats...

Got the seat mounts painted

Definitely keeping me busy! I'm hoping I'm back home at a decent time Friday and can refit rear bumper and lights and then mot Saturday

I'll pull it apart this weekend and give that a try scottie thanks for that. It could well be iv messed it up while I had it in bits resetting mileage.

Sounds like you have been cracking on! Why are dbla saying that?

Thanks rankine, as much as id like to I don't think I'll get chsnce, though the green one is raring to get out! I haven't driven it enough to get a proper feel scottie, iv only driven round the block. I can say though it feels alot more responsive and torquey. Hopefully the speedo will recalibrate q...

So after today's test drive, iv realised the speedo is quite away out so may need to swap the vitara speedo head for a Japanese sj head. The speedo does read but it's abit slower than actual. Going to do some research and see if it matters or not

https://youtube.com/shorts/AfYADxlM5Sk? ... XdQGRzjay2
https://youtube.com/shorts/J2Mzsi4OfRY? ... CBftIlBmLd

The videos we have been waiting for

Garage day today. Finally mounted passenger seat, still to paint the new mounts and the floor.
Wiring loom taped up and tidied away for the final time.
Test drive time!

Love that!
1997 vitara lwb diesels and 1998 grand vitaras used them engines as did almost every diesel mazda of that era. The rf engines aren't that rare but the suzukis with them are