Posts Tagged ‘Bodywork’

Clean Up

Monday, June 7th, 2010

After the somewhat aborted test at Brands, due to the electrical issue, I have spent a fare bit of time, with others also, musing over the electrical gremlin and some aero improvements. However the first issue was/is to clean up the car and make sure nothing is damaged/worn etc. The passenger side CV decided to throw some grease out. This was actually because we overfilled it, after advice from a colleague… But once it had thrown out what it wanted it seemed to settle down so at least no real damage!

 

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Rear End Mods

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

With a bit more time to spend on the car over the bank holiday, we were out in the workshop early on Saturday to make a concerted start. I struggled the exhaust headers on then bolted the engine into position. Next up was to mount the diff. I mounted the diff in, and then realised that I had forgotten the chain! D’oh!

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Build Over

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Well, the ‘build’ phase is finally over! Of course I am surethere will be many updates and tweaks to come, but the first build is complete. A minor milestone also completed, the car has moved both forwards and reverse under its own power!

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Door Hinges

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

I know the previous video of the doors, was probably the most dull video anyone has ever seen, but I thought I would bombard you with a little more about them! Below is a pic of the technical catch itself.

 

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Air Scoops

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

The air scoops are now finished off. To ‘tart’ them up I filled the hole and sprayed it black.