Removing all the components was quite easy, I've done it many times before but not to the extent of having everything out all at once, nice perspective laying it all on the bench together. Everything needs a good scrub down, and the OEM cast pieces like the lower control arms, knuckles etc will get a fresh coat of satin black paint. The front traction bar from Innovative had it's paint chip off instantly years ago, resulting in a lot of surface rust all these years later so that'll need some attention.

I have to weld the gussset plate into the rear trailing arms which will be interesting, resulting in being painted once done. As this is being done, I'll look to stitch weld the front rear subframe as they are prone to crack on our chassis.

Everything laid out on the bench. Going to have to put this all somewhere now..

Spidey friend sitting behind the right rear shock, red backs are quite dangerous here in Australia.. Luckily he didn't have a nibble.

Popped to Bunnings to grab a storage rack to keep everything on, especially with more components to come off the car it'll be good to organise and store everything in one location so I don't misplace anything. Back to a clean bench.

Misc findings on pulling everything apart:

At Winton I was starting to have issues with the bonnet not opening when pulling the lever from inside the car. At one stage it popped open as I went out onto the track, luckily I spotted it and slowly went around to return to the pits. When I started pulling everything apart the other day it was hard to open, I had to yank it open and in doing so the spring managed to fall out, with the rod bit till clipped into the latch. Confusing as to how this happened, surely that means it's pulled the thread out? Nope, I could easily screw it back it and torque it.. Mystery

The tucked headlight & radiator fan wiring through the wing has lasted since doing the motorswap in 2016, at the time I cut and extended the loom by soldering in additional wires which I cut from a spare loom I had, so the gauge/colour of wire mostly stayed the same. Since learning a lot more, especially the negatives of soldering in a motorsport application, the plan is to redo all of this.

It was a messy job at the time, it lasted, but now time to improve it. For now I'll cut the loom in the middle of the wing, and label the individual wires each side to match up later on. Some of the ground wires run from inside the vehicle, so this could be optimised.

The radiator fan wiring below where it enters the engine bay is a bit sketchy, it was a track side repair with what we had, but as it worked I then never fixed it. A nice connector would go lovely here I say.

Random engine bay pic

The whole intake system seemed to have a small amount of oil inside, especially the pod filter end and the throttle body. This would be because I went the crank case back into the intake arm. Long term plan will be to install a catch can. Would also like to have a new intake arm made to suit the car as this one was from my old DA9 I got the motor fromt originally. I'd make a new pod filter enclosure as well, properly sealing it from the engine heat, but leaving the top of so it seals against the bonnet.

Prop valve looks to have leaked somewhen in the past.

I wonder how the cat is holding up all these years later