Another long day today getting to the stage where everything takes a little longer as where the body is involved can't afford to make any mistakes ! First job of the day was to install our imaginary steering column (piece of waste pipe) and position using dashboard to establish the cut out in the front edge of the scuttle.
Once we were happy it was as near as a piece of waste pipe could be we were able to mark out and dremel the scuttle front edge to suit.
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Scuttle front edge relieved to clear steering column waste pipe |
Having earlier secured the sides of the body in place with a couple of large head rivets we were able to find and expose the fitted scuttle rivnuts using the woodbit method from Jons blog which works superbly well. We then fitted two cap heads into the rivnuts and applied paint to them.
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| Cap heads in situ |
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| Wet paint on cap head |
The scuttle was then fitted into place on the wet cap heads and voila accurate holes for the bolts
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| Bottom edge of scuttle |
The scuttle was now finally secured in place using stainless cap heads and washers
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| Scuttle securing bolts |
Now that the scuttle was in place Joe got to fit his header tank and the red hoses which he had been salivating about for some time
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| Engine bay |
A little work on the rear we fitted the number plate light and couldn't resist a pic with the number in place !
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| Rear (obvious really LOL) |
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| Number plate light |
Final job of a long day was to fit the exhaust, everything takes longer than anticipated, getting the pipe angles correct to put as little strain on the manifold as possible took a while fiddling around, but we got there in the end
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| Carbon can |
9 hrs today 185 total.
Excellent progress - looks good
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