Update #1

Time for an update? Yeh, about time too eh! Well quite a lot has happened since the last update way back in April so I'll do my best at bringing this site back up to date, here goes.

First up was to add a firewall to the rear of the car between the passenger/cockpit area and the boot where all the fuel system components are kept. The panels had allready been cut and shaped previously but now it was time to attach them and seal them up. This was a rather simple task of pop riveting the panels in and sealing them up.

Next up was a trip down to Eastbourne to Neweras UK workshop to meet Gareth, he had some new wheels and a windscreen for me to take away. Nice! I arrived home after a long journey which also included going to Rye House for a 2hr endurance kart race with the Le RML team in Club100. mmmm wheels... :)

I bolted them up at the front to see where they sat on the car, they're not too bad but could do with a 10mm spacer or so.

The next job was to try and locate the pull cables for the cutoff switch and extinguisher system. Now I'd seen that people usually mount them up between the bonnet and windscreen and lay them down flat against the screen with a bracket mounted on the scuttle panel just above the wiper motor. That to me was just untidy and me being me had to find a neater solution which led to cutting a hole in the nearside front wing and moulding in a recess to allow access to the two pull handles secured to the upper chassis leg:

A couple of general shots of the car in the garage with the four wheels on for the first time since the car arrived.

Next up was making the v-mount ducting. This meant a lot of cutting of cardboard and lots of swearing! I think pictures show exactly how it was done so here they are:

The cardboard templates were transfered to aluminium sheets and formed to fit:

The decluttered, lightened and repainted steering column went back in:

These rear lights arrived as a surprise gift from Miguel at Newera in Japan!

James and Phil at Driftworks were kind enough to offer to replace my mismatched adjustable arms with a complete set of their orange arms in return for using photos in their online shop:

The bootlid attachments were then sorted with some spacers made to get the FRP bootlid skin to sit nicely and line up with the rest of the bodywork:

Next up was to recondition the steering rack. This meant I stripped down the rack, cleaned it all up, gave it a lick of paint and replaced the parts that needed replacing:

The tyres arrived for my wheels so I could finally have the car sitting back on its wheels with the right ones on there:

The next job was to make the polycarbonate windows for the doors and rear 1/4lights:

The rear fuel filler recess in the the drivers side rear wing was annoying me so I decided to fill it with some chopped strand FRP matting: