Archive for December 20th, 2007

Cockpit Layout

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Ok, so I know its not really next on the list but I thought I would have a look and see would the eventual car might look like. Fortunately we have an old battery which we replaced, only to find the problem was something else, and a spare fire extinguisher, which i have… long term borrowed.

Since taking this picture I have read the ‘blue book’ and it strongly advisors that the fire extinguisher be mounted in the fore aft direction of the vehicle, so I have turned it through 90. I suppose I need to get a battery box, but have you looked how much they are??!!!

Cockpit

Further Panels

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Today I finally got around to fitting the drivers side internal panel. This is a single net fully folded into shape. Luckily it was about right (I can obviously still just about read a rule!). Again I have pinned it down in the same fashion as before. Unfortunatly I am going to have to make up some filling panels, the gaps are from the way the net was created, it was just not possible to do. Hopefully if I do them well enough it they wont look too out of place!

Drivers Side Panel 2
Drivers Side Panel

Heat Shield

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Whilst doing the ally panelling I thought it was an apt time to add some heat shielding. I am planning to have the exhaust headers to come out of the engine at the front and wrap around each other as they do, just behind the seat (as they do on Jons LR1300).

Shielded Panel
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