Last thing left to do before turning it on was fluids, exhaust, air intake manifold and electrics. Started work on the battery wiring. Gone with an Odyssey PC680 located behind the passenger seat and used a bulkhead post thing instead...
Been too long since doing a post but been busy with the car at least. Had the engine running last weekend so need to update the last months work so I can do the start up post, only had a...
Next job was brake lines. Using Atec fittings like the fuel lines. Using PA-coated steel pipe, just used a small laser pipe bender which worked a treat, the 4.75mm steel pipe is much easier to deal with than the aluminium...
Been doing lots of smaller jobs since the last post so there is a fair bit to cover. First up was getting the second hand gearbox we bought attached to the engine along with a new clutch. Then get the...
Spent most of the evenings during the week getting all the parts together for the front and rear suspension, cleaning and painting a number of smaller parts too. The citric acid bucket doing its magic again. Made life easier that...
Ended up leaving the seam sealer a couple of days to go off. The Puraflex 40 says it takes 24 hours to cure at 3.5mm thick and had a couple of areas which were probably a bit more than this...
Seam sealer is taking a little longer than I thought to cure so started a few other jobs. I had already welded the PMS bearing kit and stiffening plates a couple months back but time to push the bearings in....
The carbon foot rests arrived sooner than I thought from Carbontec, shipped from Poland but only took 3 or 4 days. Pretty simple to fit. Used rivnuts with a few of the fixings points requiring a spacer to keep the...
Just a short update. Thought I would try to do regular short updates rather than leaving them for too long. Wanted to get the rivnuts in place before painting the underside, so up next was the internal fuel lines. Using...
