So that was the first part when I first got the car till i'd owned it for a few months, then after a few more months I started doing some more work on it.
After all this the car is quite good. Torquey, reliable and it hasn't cost me the earth. I'm not sure where to go with it next, repair the minor amount of rust it has (mainly in the bonnet), respray and a Mk1 golf front lip, or perhaps think about selling it and moving onto another secondary car to play with. I dunno...