Shooting around the car in a slightly mad manner, it was back to the front. I gave the splitter a quick couple of coats of paint, who would have known that metal paint works on wood… Its not the best, but from experience the splitters don’t last forever and after a while the paint fades anyway, so no real worry.
Next up was to skin the frame with ally. If you look carefully at the image you can see the skin was slightly oversize. This allowed me to form the ally over the edge slightly, just to help it when it rubs the floor. You can also see an air riveter. OK there are not many rivets here, but even so its worth every penny. So easy to use and all you need is an air source. Luckily we have air compressors in all three ‘shops’ so its not a problem. You can also see our new TIG machine, the MASSIVE green box. I say new, and it is to us, I thick its a good few years old however, but should be good for a few years yet. All we need now is to wire it in, its 3 phase and has equally MASSIVE cables. Obviously this is not too difficult for us to do, but insurance deems us not to be capable. Fortunately on my mums side the family firm is electrical contracting so no problems there, just getting it all organised as we always get gazumped, but i suppose we get favourable rates aswell…
I then glued in the front diffusers. I used silicon to do this as it seems to work on the 935. It has the added bonus of being slightly giving when everything flexes so helps the diffusers survive.
So after being left overnight to dry, it was time to assemble all the other bits and bobs.
Below is the finished thing with the front on. It all seems pretty strong, and when I was jumping on it in the middle, the suspension was compressing to just allow the splitter to come close to the floor. The sides are not quite as stiff, but this is to be expected, again if this becomes a problem I will have to have a rethink, but I think it will be OK…
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