Didn't get outside to see what she looks like in the sun yet, but the final parts are back from the zinc platers, so things are finally going together with proper seals, bearings and greased up ready to go! 

1 step forwards and 96 steps back today with a load more issues discovered whilst reassembling - but working through them, and the front is finally together on shiny new alloys. We've even got a Christmas theme going as it looks like someone based the wheel/centre cap design on Rudolf...

Is your racing season in the winter? are you hoping to get it finished soon? There is some very professional work going on in your build

Rob

First race is generally early March, but we want plenty of testing and trackdays between now and then to iron out issues.

Well keep the build thread coming it is all very interesting 

Rob

Added more louvers than a louvery thing at a louver convention:

Skidpan's - 6mm thick aluminium plate for the transmission - goes forward under the beam/seats and is overlapped by the main floor so even thicker there. The transmission plate also overlaps the engine plate when that is fitted so there's no leading edges anywhere to dig in - making the underbody armour half an inch thick in some sections - it still takes a beating mind.
  The front beam and front section of the floor gets it's own piece of 6mm plate too which wraps up around the front beam and up a few inches to prevent the beam digging in on a nose-hard landing/ditch crossing.
Unfortunately it doesn't look this shiny for long!



You'll have to excuse the rear of the floor, one of the helpers things a hammer is a good substitute* for a sheet metal folder....
*It is, but not how he uses it!

Putting the wrapping on now so nearing completion and some hard use.

Yep, getting close, amazing how many hours are disappearing into just checking things over and making sure all the bolts/nuts, etc are loctited and tight to be honest. I lost a whole weekend just clipping the rear half of the wiring loom up tidy out of the way of everything and making sure it ran up the rear bonnet with a nice loop of slack for the bonnet to open and close without the possibility of it getting trapped if it gets shut in a hurry!
Same with the throttle linkage - full evening just to make sure everything was routed, running smooth and adjusted right (and then we took it all off to add a backup closing spring to the linkages anyway....)


The front bonnet was warped more than it looked from the welding - looked okay from outside but once we fitted the seats and sat inside you could see the bow in the side panels, so that's getting some reshaping and some filler and hopefully I can find someone that takes on one off fibreglass/diolin parts and will knock us a lighter one up whilst we finish everything else.

Nice to see this progressing, seems to be the boring stage now, but all the finishing details are the difference between finishing or breaking down. Keep up the excellent work.
Ttfn Glenn

Afraid so, and after this much time, we're not taking any shortcuts, no matter how close it is 

Added more louvers than a louvery thing at a louver convention:

They look louverly........ well someone had to. I'll get my coat.

Doors over there! 

Doors, on a rail; am I missing something?
Ttfn Glenn

Yes, you're probably missing the delights that would driving in Wales on a nice day without doors: