7 January 2023
Had a nother go at fitting the air filter with the shortened pipe but it's still not working for me. It fits, but is very close to rubbing on the body and in use I expect it will knock on the body. Need to find a better position for the filter. Finished off adding loom covering for the immobiliser wires and the USB charger. I've been thinking more and more about the body to sill fixings I want to use. I've ordered some flat bar aluminium some countersunk rivnuts, bolts and some flat glazing rubber. I plan to mount the rivnuts on the aluminium sills plan, between the sills and the body some 1mm rubber strip. The flat bar will be glued to the outside of the bodyshell and then drilled through to the rivnuts, the bolts will go through the body, rubber and into the rivnuts. 9 January 2023 Back to the air filter mounting. I tried various positions for the air filter while the body was on to see what the options were. I settled on a having it in front of the radiator at the top corner. Luckily in the kit of parts I bought was another rigid pipe That would work, the only problem was that it didn't have a braket on it. I made one out of a small bit of steel angle. I cut a slot in one end that would bolt to the chassis using the mounting I had put in before. The rigid pipe was made of aluminium so I decided the easiest way to join them would be with epoxy, the loading is relatively light so it should be fine. I ground down part of the tube to give me something flatish to glue to, and after several tests fit trimmed the angle iron to the length I needed. I grit blasted the angle iron to clean it up and then used Araldite to glue them together. The epoxy will be tidied up and then the whole thing will be painted. Thinking about other jobs to do before I can fix the body down I wanted to checck the seat belt fitting as that will be easier to do without the body in the way. I ordered some long (4 1/2”) 7/16s bolts for the top mount. I did some trials and they seem ok with the belts running bettwen the headrest posts, one of the belts just touches one of the headrest posts. Checked on the forum to see what other people experienced when doing the IVA. I did some test fitting of the rear bulkhead upper panels with the body in place. I first trimmed them lightly so I could get them to line up with the holes I had drilled before (a long time ago). Once they were sitting correctly I ran a marker pen around the inner edge of the cokpit to mark the edge on the panels. Then I trimmed aproximately 10mm above that line. This left me with a nice gap above the panel that doesn't show as I intend to fit a small edge seal on top of the rear bulkhead. The panels as the come from ANC overlap in the middle but I want them to butt against each other an not overlap. Some careful marking and cutting will be needed to do this. But that is for another day. 14 January 2023 Applied more primer and top coat to the air filter tube during the week in preparation for fitting today. Tried to fit it and promptly snapped off the bracket! Back to the drawing board. I decided to modify the bracket and cut a slit in it so I could strap it to the tube with a large jubilee clip. However I had to clean up the tube and bracket to remove the epoxy and repaint it. Marked up and drilled the holes to secure the top rear bulkhead panels. I've decided to overlap the panels, they will be covered in carpet or vinyl so the join won't be visible. Also made a start on make a panel to seal between the body and the bulkhead, I've some aluminium angle to length, It will get rivet to the top of the bulkhead and I'll cut some aluminium panel to shape to close the gap between the body and the angle, it will be sealed with a rubber seal on top. 15 January 2022 Fitted the revised air filter arrangment, which fits nicely in the nose of the car, it should get lots of cold air but not lots of spray. I drilled the aluminium angle so it could be held in place on the scuttle while I made a template for the panel to fit on them.
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