Joe at BTB phoned me to ask if he could cut one of the bars out from the wing frame to fit the exhaust can. This didnt worry me in the slightest as I can easily put the strength back in! You can see below he has cut out the top bar between the plates and welded in half of a new diagonal. Unfortunalty he ran out of time to make the second half but gave me some tube to make it from!
Now that the car was back I was also able to dummy up the rear wing. This was a somewhat grand occasion as much discussion over the best way of finally mounting it. The wing has come with predrilled hole to set the main flap’s angle. However, these don’t actually fit on my wing supports, basically as the chord is too big. This leaves me with 2 main options, either making new wing support mounts with the hole predrilled or using rosejoints and a link bar to set the angle. The second has 2 major advantages, 1 its cheaper and 2 I would have an infinite amount of adjustment, however I would have an INFINATE amount of adjustment which I really am not going to need! I have gone with rosejoints for ease for the time being, but I don’t think for one moment that I will ever adjust it once its set. There hopefully will be plenty of adjustment with the second flap!
Below are some pics of how the thing looks. I really needed to push the car out to give a really nice pic, but there was just too much stuff to move, so these will have to do.
