Finally a full undercoat

Well it is red, very very red. "Indian red" to be exact. Most of it will be covered but just enough will show through for an interesting contrast to the final body colour (A well kept secret). Since making it home, I have removed the engine and wheels. Put it on "bricks", well horses is more like it, and starting adding the bits to make it drivable.

As can be seen from the photos, the driver has somewhere to sit (spiderman is already putting a claim to that seat - hopefully I can talk him into being the navigator), and the steering is in. The pedals have been mounted but not in situ in any of the pictures. Sitting in it, the seating position feels nice and everything seems in the correct place. A keen eye will notice the pedal mounts are on a slight angle, this is by design to ensure that both the brake pedal and steering are centered in the car. The angle also stops the clutch pedal from hitting the firewall, this saved me from having to modify the box. I am still not sure if I will hide it or make it a "feature", when putting the ali in engine bay.

I have also almost finished welding the fuel tank, hopefully it turns out. Planing on using POR15 to seal any holes created from the welding process. It is the rusty looking thing in the top photo and yes that is the final location. I expect it to hold just under 40 Ltrs. If I get around to it I will post pictures of the jig for the sliding rails for the seat and the tank jig (an empty beer carton).

Plans for the upcoming month is to strip the brake booster back to just the insides. eg: No vacuum boost. Modify it to fit the Honda pedals and the Toyota bits taken from the half cut. Finish the fuel tank, get the steering rack into the correct position and run fuel and brake lines. Then i can go back to putting it on wheels, the engine in and running the electrics (That is where the real fun comes in).

Hopefully the progress and the updates will be a little more regular.

The pedals

Got these out of a honda civic ED (I think). Hopefully they should fit into the 100+ frame without to many mods.

Its home

The car has finally come home. It as interesting getting it on and off the car trailer. We had to park it on an angle as the clearance is so low that the gearbox was hitting the trailer as it was loaded on. i didn't want to have the same problems unloading.

Beaming and Torsion

The car is finally ready for the beaming and torsion test. Here are a couple of pics of it setup. Forgot the camera on the actual test day. So it looks like this is all I have of the test rig. From memory it was loaded with 175 kg for the torsion and beaming was 86Kg in each side.

I am still waiting for the results from the engineer but from my calcs it looks like it passed with flying colours.

Engine refit

Had to refit the engine to finish off the last of the structual things around the engine bay. Another day of messing around resulting in two bits of steel being welded.

Adding in the side impact

Fitting the side impact into the car. Not only does it make it strong. It is also gives the inside some nice clean lines.
The steel is 1.6 mm down the sides. Where the holes are at the back, they will be filled in with 3mm steel. Seatbelts will be goint through them. The size is well over that required by the ADR.

Fitting the engine

After two full days of measuring and moving things around finally got the engine lined up. The engine mounts were then made to fit the location of the engine. Some of the photo's are a little fuzy, lifting an engine in and out of a car 20 times in one day will do that to you. I will publish some pics of the mounts later if I remember to take them while the engine is out.