OK, I know, no updates for AGES, but things have been manic here! We have just emplyed a new member to our team to help out!
Getting back on topic I promised a while ago I would get a photo of the airbox, and true to my word here it is. Now, its not totally finished, as it will need trimming to fit under the body, but I am pretty pleased with how is turning out so far!
In order to help the engine I am trying to get a nice source of cold air to the inlet trumpets. What I have decided is to draw in the air and duct it to a box around the inlets. I wanted to keep the original ally base plate for the filter as it is made of a ‘hard’ ally and should be better, so have made up this plate to go below the base plate and then weld a return all the way around.
After fitting in the wheel arch ducts I changed my mind over the previous panel for the dash. Instead of the curved panel, which would have required a couple of other panels to fill in the lower area of the dash I have decided to make a new panel which fits between the wheel arch ducts. This means less work AND less weight, so its a real winner! First, was to get the profile of the body where it was going to fit. To do this I stuck some cardboard onto the front of the spider section and just traced over it with a felt marker.
After finishing off the extinguisher lines etc, the next jobbette was to mount the top ally panel to the chassis. However the wiring is not yet finished and the battery is below this panel. I also thought it would be a good idea if I could get to the battery a bit more easily than crawling down headfirt into the passenger footwell! So, I cut the strange shaped holw you can see below. (Its the funny shape to go around certain chassis members).
Next in the seemingly random order of assembly were some more internal panels. In fact its not really random, but often I have to jump around whilst I wait for parts or paint to dry etc. The next major milestone is the centre body section, but before this I wanted to get the ‘tunnel’ in as its just easier to not have to pass it through the door openings!
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