After I finally got it running I took it for a small drive and found that it wouldn't idle at all when up to temp, I assumed this to be a sticky IACV after attempting to reset the idle , so took it off and cleaned it hoping for the best but to no avail so I'm contemplating a new one but I thought I'd best take it to work to do more fault finding and on the way it threw an engine light, this was good, fault was EGR which led me to realise the vac pipes to and from the egr control solenoid where the wrong way around so swapped em over and all is well, car pulls good, no smoke or leaks, however when cruising at around 3k rpm I get some surging which I'm thinking could be the dizzy about to crap itself..
Anyway I did about 150km on the weekend and no issues so so far so good..
I decided to finally fit a few things I've had for ages, put my short shifter in

Also did the little trick of notching the centre console so the cable doesn't contact it..

I found someone's stash of bitten off finger nails under the console too...... which was nice

