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The Easter Weekend…

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

I needed some help with quite a few jobs on KC and Pants kindly offered to come down and give me a hand. Pants arrived at 7.45pm on Thursday and we got straight on and started on the wiring that evening.

Below are some of the photos taken during the weekend.

Jobs done -

  • Wiring loom removed for modification
  • Brake lines formed, shaped, flared and p-clipped.
  • Front scuttle removed from main tub
  • Front scuttle drilled and rivetted.
  • Ally strip added to front scuttle for strength
  • Dash cut and drilled for Savage switches.
  • RS Alloys prepped and painted.(Ford Graphite Metallic Grey)
  • Roll bar ground down, primed and painted (Ford Graphite Metallic Grey)
  • Dash support moved and extended.
  • Side pod modified to clear exhaust
  • Steering column ugly support “modified”
  • Pin created for steering column
  • Steering boss slug welded onto column and pin.
  • Column rewelded and strengthened.
  • Westfield seat base modified.
  • Westfield seat (Driver) fitted.
  • Rear tub drilled for rear lights.
  • Brackets made for rear lights.
  • Fuel pump relocated to rear.
  • Shocks and springs removed (and refitted!)
  • Ally brackets fabricated for scuttle/main tub.
  • Ally brackets fabricated for tub rear.
  • Brackets rivnutted on to boot floor.
  • Brackets bonded (Tiger seal) to underneath of rear tub.
  • Boot floor rivnutted onto chassis (M5 rivnuts)
  • Bonnet grille cut out.
  • Headlight holes cut in bonnet.
  • Bonnet fitted.
  • Hinges screwed onto bonnet.
  • Headlights fitted into bonnet.
  • Savage switches fitted into dash.

I know I’ve left out some of the jobs Pants and I did, but the list is a start!

I’m so grateful for Pants’s time and skills that have allowed this massive list to be completed in less than four days.

And the pictures….

Gulp…

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

One hell of an outlay but I hope it’ll be worth it.

DD2 Lite is now on order and should be with me within the week.

Time to sell a kidney or two…

 

Oh so much money but....

Oh so much money but....

Dash mockup…

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Once I’d taken off the steering column I thought I’d offer up the carbon dash. Looks plenty long enough to go right into the wings.

Thanks Pants - will look fantastic!


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