I bought my Williams 2 a few months ago, and it's soon turned into abit of a project so here I go:
When I went up to have a look at the Williams, I took some spare wheels which Naples Kindly lent me.
When I was happy with the car, I left the wheels up there and got a train back up there later on.
This is what she looked like on the drive back from Wales:
As you can see it had an odd coloured fuel cap where the locks had been changed at some point.
So when I got home I set about taking the lock out of the original 449 cap and swapping them over.
After breaking the 449 one, I worked out the proper way of taking the lock out.
So I did it right on the one which counted, and put it on which improved the look straight off.
After doing that I proceeded with putting the cat on, so I could put it in for a Mot.
Which when I did, I realised that the spring joint flange wasn't on and the original one had been butchered by some exhaust place.
After a lot of filing away, I managed to get it to fit well enough so I could put the cat and exhaust on.
So I was ready to get a Mot in time for FCS
Got my phone call and it failed well.
Which was annoying, it needed headlight alignment, side repeater bulb, Exhaust had a hole in it, Front brakes seized, rear handbrake efficiency 3% and corrosion.
With my lack of a welder I booked it in to have the corrosion sorted, and thought I would fix what it failed on.
I took the Scorpion centre section off, and took it up to my mates to get welded up. This came back good.
I then set about un seizing the rear callipers, these where pretty seized.
I kept hammering them back and forth for a while with plenty of wd40.
After a while it seemed they where moving happily, but the handbrake wasn't working well still.
So I adjusted the cables and still no joy.
So new callipers seemed the best option, and I had wanted decent rear brakes for a while.
So I ordered 2 new rear callipers, new handbrake cables and some Mintex rear pads.
When I got these I fitted, I bled them up and the handbrake was a lot better.
Now when I did the wheels up the car wouldn't move lol.
Then I set about unceasing the Wilwood 4 Pots, these where making plenty of creaking and had worse stopping power than my revised valver setup.
So I took the pads out, and Wd40 / Copper greased the pistons up, and after a lot of pushing of each piston back.
I got them lovely and quiet and the stopping power is now what people comment about them.
When I looked at the headlight to adjust the aim it turned out the adjustment screw had broken which was annoying.
I decided that most of my driving is at night, so a pair of new headlights would be a good idea.
So went and got some from Gsf, and put them in and the difference they make I would say are worth for the cost.
With all the faults fixed as far as I was concerned, I gave her a clean and rebooked an Mot
I was confident I would finally get an Mot after not being able to drive it for a month, and when they rang me up saying it had failed again, I was most displeased
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They said the rear handbrake wasn't up to the required efficiency despite all new parts.
And failed it on the headlight alignment despite asking them to do it before testing.
But they "fixed" it for some more money even though I doubt they did, but that's the benefit of the new mot system
and I eventually had an Mot :P.
I also got advisory's on: 'Racing suspension' 'Buckets and Harnesses', don't think I will be going there again.
With an mot I set about refurbing the Williams wheels which I had bought off Kj16v.
They where pretty corroded and curbed, so I used a file to take out the curbing and then used sandpaper to get a good finish
Came out a lot better than you would think, with this done I sent them to be shot blasted and powder coated.
This was the end result:
With some painted Williams wheels I put on some new Goodyear Eagle F1's, and they where put onto the car.
As I wanted to tidy up my interior I decided I would take out the roof glue and stuck on cardboard bits.
This took ages to get off, but eventually found a good way of using the blade to get it evenly off.
When I took this off I was surprised at how much glue and bits of cardboard soon added up.
My eventual plan is to take all the sound deadening and glue/clips out and spray up the inside in 449.
Other jobs which I have done have been fitting a new Fuel Filter, Fitted my Magnecores, And a CD player as im not hardcore lol.
One of the more recent things I have done has been attempting to sort out the knocking which I was getting from the Gaz Coilovers which where fitted to the car.
I initially thought they where the top mounts, but it turned out that it was the design of the Coilovers which was at fault.
This meant the top mount wouldn't spin on its bearing, so I bought some washers from B&Q and used 12mm worth on each side, and rebuilt them back together.
This has made them quieter but they still make noises and need servicing.
The bonus is they have lowered the top threads as you can see:
As I now had an mot, I no longer needed to have my cat fitted.
So I booked the car in to get an extended flange made up for the supersprint manifold.
As the early ones where apparently not long enough and needed modifying so this was done.
This was the end result:
This was done allright, but they failed to sort out the exhaust hanging really low, I have found a way of sorting it out after trial and error but im not happy with the Scorpion.
Will see how it goes though.
This is how it was looking up to this point:
The Final thing I have done to it so far was changing the stickers.
I thought I would go for some black Williams Stickers to match the black wheels.
This was one of those ideas which seemed a good idea in theory, but when I did it the stickers it went wrong and the black didn't work out how I had intended, so think I will go for gold again.
That's as far as I have got with the car for now.
The future plans are to renew the front suspension - Wishbones, Arb Rubbers, Track Rod Ends,
New Coilovers.
Paint the Inside 449.
Sort Out The Paintwork.
Exhaust Wrap.
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