29 November 2021
Cleaned up the 3d printed mounting rings for my lights and finished them all off this afternoon. Spent some time over thinking how to mount the number plate lights involving fabricating brackets. Before I went too far down the rabbit hole I went back indoors and looked at what other people had done. I decided to keep it simple and just bolt them to the body shell at either end of the number plate. I trial fitted them and added an additional thickness of neoprene underneath so they would conform to the slight curve. 4 December 2021 Finished off the rear lights by putting the number plate lamps on which was straightforward. Secured them with m4 allen headed bolts, penny washers and nyloc nuts on the inside. Made up the loom tail for the second dash connector that provides the earths, gauge sensor and feeds out to the indicators. That was after I had a forced tidy up trying to find the pins for the connectors which had fallen on the floor. I think next up will be back inside the car to finalise the fusebox fixing and the connecting up the wires in the car to the fusebox and the dash. Starting to think about trimming, as I want to cover the dash top I'll want to get that done before I finish fitting the body. When I was at Beaulieu earlier in the year had a talk with the guys from Martrim who had some 4 way stretching vinyl which would be perfect and comes in a nice dark blue that I think would look good with the body colour. 5 December 2021 Having said all the above...... Today I had a bit of a tidy up and started making the panels for the sides of the cockpit. It's not entirely random, the wires for the loom need to pass through the sides of the chassis and so I really want the side panels in place before I run the wires, otherwise I would have to take all the wires out again to put the panels in. Got the offside panel roughly cut to shape and most of the holes drilled and attached with Cleco's. 6 December 2021 After a bit more cutting to size, a bit of shaping, drilling lots of holes I then finished off the panel and secured it with Tiger seal and pop rivets.
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