Fitting the air box

The airbox is finally fitted. I grabbed a pod filter and adapter plate from repco. I made the airbox to line up with the sides of the gearbox tunnel. To give the ali something solid to be pop riveted into. This has given me the problem that I now only have space for a battery in the engine bay on the passengers side.

With the lack of space in the engine bay all the fuses need to be moved into the inside of the car. I created a fuse box which can be accessed from the passengers side of the car without having to remove the scuttle. This should hopefully reduce the wear and tear on the scuttle and general paint work.











The next step is to fit the rest of the dash wiring and work out if there is enough space for all the fuses.

Start of the ali

Well it has been a while since the last post. With the festive session and other things taking priority the progress came to a stop for a few weeks. Now I am back onto it, the following bits have made some progress, a scuttle and the ali in the engine bay. I have also revisited the wiring, but more on that latter.

After some debate and a lot of discussion with an ex-surfboard shaper at work it what decided that purchasing a scuttle would be a much better idea and much more cost efficient than making it by hand. After a quick talk with one of the local builders I tracked down Peter (of the famed P3s) who is making fiberglass. From the pictures looked to be some of the best fiberglass made for the cars between here and Brisbane. He was also very competitively priced. So all in all very happy with the finished product. I have attached some pics with the modifications I neede to make.





I grabbed a half sheet of 1.2 mm ali as it was the only thing my local steel merchant had in stock, and being in a hurry to make some progress I didn't want to wait for them to order something in. After trial fitting the scuttle and having to shorten both the front and back hoops I was in the mood to work with something a little lighter. Using the trusty grinder and 1mm cutting disc's I proceeded to cut out the shape for the ali shelf in the engine bay. I have fitted it all up and pop riveted it into place. It is starting to look a little more complete








So after completely removing all the unneeded stuff from the wiring under the dash I have a big crows nest. The evenings have been taken up with tracing the rest of the wires to ensure they go where I think they are suppose to go. I haven't taken any pictures of the mess, but the plan now is to finish off the ali under the dash and in the engine bay, then mount the wiring where it needs to go. I will then shorten up the wires and clean them up once they are under the dash. The joys of playing with little wires.

Hopefully the next post with not be as long as it took for this one.