progress skewed

Well - things are happening slowly... but happening none the less.

• Pedal box tray welded in
• Fuel cell tray welded in
• patch in floor welded in
• started sanding the engine bay with the aim of prep sanding all the interior to the cage going in
• massaged left rear turret for coil-over install - right rear still to do

The pedal box tray got installed slightly off centre...by about 5mm (at the most)  pure un-mitigated operator error - this will annoy me but will have no functional impact. Installed M8 Rivnuts for the willwoods to bolt up to.... had to fab up a tool as I was not going to pay $170 for a proper installer - mine was free.... and pulled the inserts up perfectly...

 

I will plod on with the various finishing - sanding - grinding - seam sealing and bashing things with a large hammer tasks (racing is such a precision sport) I *think* I have finished welding for now - yeah right

 

new email address for those who care - god does anyone read this stuff???

 

warwick dot gilchrist at xtra dot co dot nz

 

Smoke and Flames

Spent a Saturday afternoon creating dust and smoke - welded in a patch in the left front dash panel area and ground flat - removed the last roll cage footing from the old main hoop - need to patch a couple of holes from the previous welding efforts in this area.

Cut the boot floor out completely to allow the fitting of an 8 gallon fuel cell (small - but we only plan to run sprints/hill climbs and sprint circuit stuff - if we run enduros we just get to fill up lots!)

Chucked some zinc based primer on the front floor area and generally measured up for the pedal box mounts and fuel cell tray....

played chief timing manager for the Taranaki rally - lost a days fabrication and gained some good contacts - not a bad deal... good rally too

 

laters

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