Shiny bits ...................

A good day today, started by joining the body panels together off the car. Took care to use plenty of clamps and to get the panel lines as aligned as we could. We couldn't put the body on the car as lack of a steering column means we need access to the offside to be able to cut a hole and sort out the steering. After finishing the body we took it apart and wrapped in blankets, my wife has yet to come home from work and see the dining room ! however we will cross that bridge when we come to it !
Having seen some of the posts on the forum and read some of the stuff that has gone before we decided to tackle a problem we don't yet have, that of overheating the starter and solenoid. We cut a heat shield from 1.5mm aluminium which will bolt to the two outer lower chassis members via rivnuts and will be clad in carbon effect 'magmashield' tape with one stainless tie wrap to the outermost exhaust pipe. Hopefully will look neat and should serve a very useful purpose. The header tank I had previously bought, I had omitted to alter the angle of the mount plate so it would still have necessitated some sort of wedge affair. I decided to bite the bullet and ground off the rear plate and had it tigged on again at the correct angle. The mount we cladded in 3m white carbon vinyl and polished the tank, some effort but will be worth it in the end (I hope). The steering column is now key to progress I think so hopefully someone somewhere will extract their digit ! 8 hours today between us so 146 hours so far.

Body !

Rear wing attachments

You can never have too many clamps

Heat Shield from front

Heat shield from above

Header and scuttle

Starter wires protected with heat shielding