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Not being too happy with the temporary air inlets for the manifold and supercharger, and having a spare bit of ally billet from another project, Ed make a small mountain of swarf today and replaced the manifold one whilst I was swearing at the cam sensor (I had to make a plug for it, because we couldn't get a connector to fit it for love nor money):
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BummerDriveshafts got picked up on saturday, whoo!
Just a pity they're a quarter inch too short then....
. By whose measurement?
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Ed's been busy again, yep, he's started chopping the front out now the rear's going back together. May as well have built a new car....
New front cross going in that mates to the beam stiffening bars we added a few years back, and is higher to clear the new pedals and fuel tank/battery/PAS which have been shifted backwards for better weight distribution:
(Yeah, in situ welding pic, we're back to forum relevance again, whoo!)
New mounts for pedal box going on:
And some new floor bars, to mount the seat belts clear of the new bulkhead and help prevent anal insertion of the various large rocks we always seem to land on.
New front cross going in that mates to the beam stiffening bars we added a few years back, and is higher to clear the new pedals and fuel tank/battery/PAS which have been shifted backwards for better weight distribution:
(Yeah, in situ welding pic, we're back to forum relevance again, whoo!)
New mounts for pedal box going on:
And some new floor bars, to mount the seat belts clear of the new bulkhead and help prevent anal insertion of the various large rocks we always seem to land on.
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still cannot believe how beautifully and artfully crafted that exhaust is!
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Haven't posted much on the buggy lately - mainly due to family health issues and struggling with an infection myself for a few weeks, in fact, I'm at home today as I made myself ill again working too long last night, hey ho, I'm a moron, nothing new there 
That aside, I'll get some pictures tommorow, honest - but the new floorpan is fitted up, Ed's made a new front bonnet and bulkhead, pipework/bulkhead fittings have gone in, new seat mounts are there, there's some more things to press and light up on the dashboard, ECU has been mounted, new brake/clutch reservoirs have been adapted and fitted, altered the wiper system so it autoparks and there's 2 speeds (sound trivial, but if you're giving someone a ride and they park the wipers right in your line of sight it's quite a distraction!).
Airbox prefilters are sorted and are going in tommorow to keep the larger items - grass/leaves/wasps*, etc, out of the cooling system and save the engine filters having to deal with 'em, got some more to do on the chassis loom as there's some spare wiring/connectors going in for future upgrades and because we're probably switching to a different PAS pump sometime in the year, so connectors for that are going in just in case.
Still plenty left to do on the hydraulics side but it's mainly just straight runs of pipe to the bulkhead connectors for the brakes, and a new fuel line.
Modified the lathe last week so we can spin 16" wheel rims in there - just - so we can make some new wheels much easier than before by skimming them true after welding them up.
Not far away (yes, I know, we've said that for 2 years - you're more than welcome to come and help if that's a problem
)
It's even sat on it's own four wheels!
*Yes, wasps - the roof scoop draws from the high pressure area at the windscreen. Anything that hits the windscreen tends to go upwards. Including swarms of wasps, on more than one occasion. You try cleaning an airfilter full of injured and/or REALLY ****** off wasps)
That aside, I'll get some pictures tommorow, honest - but the new floorpan is fitted up, Ed's made a new front bonnet and bulkhead, pipework/bulkhead fittings have gone in, new seat mounts are there, there's some more things to press and light up on the dashboard, ECU has been mounted, new brake/clutch reservoirs have been adapted and fitted, altered the wiper system so it autoparks and there's 2 speeds (sound trivial, but if you're giving someone a ride and they park the wipers right in your line of sight it's quite a distraction!).
Airbox prefilters are sorted and are going in tommorow to keep the larger items - grass/leaves/wasps*, etc, out of the cooling system and save the engine filters having to deal with 'em, got some more to do on the chassis loom as there's some spare wiring/connectors going in for future upgrades and because we're probably switching to a different PAS pump sometime in the year, so connectors for that are going in just in case.
Still plenty left to do on the hydraulics side but it's mainly just straight runs of pipe to the bulkhead connectors for the brakes, and a new fuel line.
Modified the lathe last week so we can spin 16" wheel rims in there - just - so we can make some new wheels much easier than before by skimming them true after welding them up.
Not far away (yes, I know, we've said that for 2 years - you're more than welcome to come and help if that's a problem
)It's even sat on it's own four wheels!
*Yes, wasps - the roof scoop draws from the high pressure area at the windscreen. Anything that hits the windscreen tends to go upwards. Including swarms of wasps, on more than one occasion. You try cleaning an airfilter full of injured and/or REALLY ****** off wasps)
