Progress at last

At last a little progress on the Micra Autograsser. You may recall that I had some major wiring issues resulting in what Rolls Royce engineers would undoubtedly call a failure to commence. The troublesome NATS was removed, but still we had a refusal to start, probably due to me using my fists of ham to cut out what i thought were unnecessary parts of the wiring loom.

In desperation I decided to start again from scratch and bought another Micra, reasoning the the first could be used as a donor of spare parts, such as wheels and body parts as and when the shell inevitably took damage. I bought unseen off Ebay, always a good idea (not!) I then realised I had bought more trouble, in that not only was the car rotten in the rear sills and both front wings, but more seriously the front crossmember had more holes than a Swiss cheese. To cap it all the cut off date for Autograss Micras is January 2000 and on receiving the V5 I found this one was registered in May 2000. striping back some of the interior trim showed a date coding of around September/October 1999 so I could probably have argued the date of manufacture prior to January 2000, but the general state of the car meant it probably wasn't worth it.

So plan C came into play. This meant stripping all the useful parts of the second Micra and scrapping the remainder, the most useful part being the wiring harness and ECU, which have now been transplanted into Micra number 1. I ran out of daylight tonight, but first impressions are good with the engine now starting but running rough, probably down to the air filter system being off the car and it being very damp, plus the petrol has probably gone off.  Tomorrow we'll see if we can get it running right, and if so I then need to find the man to build the rollcage.