As I mentioned before I have booked the car in to have the exhaust made. This is set in stone and so if I miss the date I will have to wait for a while, which I really dont want to do! However for them to make the exhaust they need to know what they have to miss. The rear deck of the car is mounted, but up to this point I hadn’t bothered attaching it to the frame. I was just a little worried that when i tow the car the rear deck might break if not attached at the rear bouncing over the bumps. So on with a couple of dzues fasteners. The first job was to drill a pilot hole from underneath through both the ally and the glass, making sure that the spring will fit!
Next was to enlarge the hole such that the fastener will sit flush on the deck. I used a conical cutter for this as it happened to be just the right size.
Below is a pic of both the fastener (left) and spring (right). You can also see here why you have to drill such a large hole, the rad on the fastener actually makes it quite large!
The next step is to attach the fastener to the clip through the panel to be attached.
Obviously I had not yet deburred the ally. At this point I also decided to align the fasteners along the length of the car, this does however mean tat the screwdriver slot is NOT along the car, but I think it looks better!
With it all aligned I drilled, and then cliquo’ed, the rivet holes for the fastener into both the glass and the ally below. Next, due to the rivet, I drilled largish clearance holes into the rivet holes in the ally to make sure the panel will sit flush on the ally.
The nriveted to the panel.
The next step was to attach the spring to the ally below. By positioning it at different angle the screwdriver slot in the fastener rotates. I decided I wanted the slot across the car, so the spring centres are at 90 degrees to the fasteners mounting centres. Remember here to countersink the rivet holes otherwise the rivet heads will hold the panel off from the ally mount.
Unfortunately it seems when I cut the slots for the rear wing, the rear deck has taken a set causing the inner edges to sit proud. One solution to this is to warm it all up and clamp it down, the resin will then take a set in the new position, but I think I will also put another couple of dzeus fasteners in to hold it more securely. This should also help hold the sides of the rear deck in the correct position, as i suspect part of the problem is the sides dragging it down. But for the exhaust this is not a problem, as hopefully it wont be that close to the deck or it will burn it anyway!
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