JaiKai

Just bought a black zed - much faster than my old silver - then again the black is a TT

Gives a break - just stripped and rebuilt a zed interior in a day !!

After seeing the post about the hawk alarm I decided to hold off with the interior of the black zed untill my new alarm comes - hopefully it should be easier to install and neater since the cables can be hidden better. Also bought a new shifter from Daves_Zed so fairly looking forward to fiting that too. If all goes well over the weekend I should have the silver zeds bumpers off ready for a respray; also looking at fitting cruise - gonna need that for the trip to JAE in a few weeks.

Forgot about this - mid day was a scorcher up here in troon so amazed to see my two cats gizmo and gadget sitting admiring the new zed, think they like it better than the silver one.

Was starting to get dark so not much i could do next, so quickly got the newer carpet back into the black zed !

Not the greatest of pics but heres the silver zed interior rebuilt !

Next was to work on the lights, the black zed had to old style indicators and the ones i wanted where on the silver zed - shiny new 99 style ! It was a complete bugger getting them all off as they were properly sealed on with the same stuff that I was about to use to switch them over and reseal them - black glue. After an hour tugging they all came off; spent the next one cleaning all the old gunk off before finally adding some of my own gunk to them to seal them off. Much better looking !

Been great weather the last two days and i've managed to strip down my silver zed and rebuild with the old interior of the black zed. As the silver zed had all the interior that I wanted she had to be stripped too ! I took a day to strip her down then do a full interior rebuild from the black zed.

Believe it or not this is the naked lady I'm taking to JAE ! Should have her sorted by then though !

I'm not a bad hand on the electrics myself - engine stuff that stumps me ! Here's my current zed - maybe this should be censored as it's showing a naked lady !

Hopefully not the illuminas green as in the example pics ! lol

Time to get the volt meter out and start tracing the cables back ! I had similar problems in my old vw bora, ended up being a fault in the fuse holder !

Looking good - keep us updated when ther arrive!

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Had some spare time today so I thought I would start the strip down of the interior. I'm installing a new carpet shortly from the silver zed {when its stripped} so everything had to come out, seats, stereo, pods, guages and finally the dash. Before I fit the new carpet i'm going to redo the cabling for the antenna and rear lights, also will fit a few upgrades ready for installing a rear amp and so on. Here she is stripped down - a naked lady !

Looks brill for the price, no wonder it sold out!

great, so the loom down to the aircon ecu comes out then, i never dug deep enough to check, i just thought the cables went down to the main ecu. Cheers

I also was planning to do an upgrade of the aircon ecu and pod but on removal of the pods on both zeds I discovered that the connection from the loom differs too. I thought this was a straight pod swap and ecu upgrade of the aircon to get the new type digital aircon but i guess not on my 96 model. Maybe somebody can advise me on this as I would like to have the digital aircon back. Below is the normal pod from the black zed : Below is the electronic pod from the silver zed : Spot the differance in the connection block !

I changed over the steering wheel today, going from a stock airbag model to a momo Took a bit of effort to get the stock one off; done all the usual safety stuff first like disconnected the battery and popped the cover of the connections under the wheel and disconnected it there two just incase it blew whilst i was doing it. I took the momo out of the old zed and then noticed that the horn assemble differs and that I needed the white part that holds the indicators round swapped too, and all because of the wee springy metal tab that needs to touch the mobo wheel. Anyways heres the pic of the silver zed minus the momo : And the momo fitted tempory to the black zed : I said tempory fitted because i'm planning to strip down the interior still and didn't think it was worth assembling everything again.

Welcome to the club buddy! Been here myself only for a few months but I can say it's the best club ever with great members all willing to give a hand or advice when needed ! Enjoy !

Well spotted!

untill ten minutes ago i never had a steering wheel !

Just added poll for what colour I should do the respray !

looking at getting a new paint job in a few months and was thinking of getting the car done in metalic purple - first quote in for a full respray was 1850 - estimated. found this on the net and thought it looked cool http://www.kumberamotors.com/cars.htm?l=&id=488

Day two of the new zed project and thankfully the weathers good. So cracking on I started to replace the other two wheels round from the silver zed. When i bought this last week it was thought that the split rims had a leak and that one of the tyres needed pumped up every few days; well taking off the suspect wheel i discovered the real issue - would you believe i traveled over 350 miles with this stuck in. Anyways afer footering about with the other side of the vailside skirt this is what she looks like from the other side, perfectly legal again to drive with half decent alloys on her. Next job starting shortly will be to start stripping out the interior - and i mean all of it ! till then !