Hood Fixed and Start on Front Wings

This weekend managed 3 hours Saturday instead of the usual Sunday morning. Spent them on two major tasks.

First I made a paper template of the holes for the hood's rubber straps. Then I went on the car, juggled a bit the hood to be sure it was in place and marked one corner, using paper tape glued over and the template to draw dots on the tape. Drilling (3,5mm) and riveting and it was done.

Then I moved to the front wheel wings. Did some fine-tuning on the stays and then tried to mark where to drill for the bolts but decided I first should trim the sides of the wings. I either bended the stays too near the tires or they really need trimming otherwise the wheels can't come out without hitting the wings. Also marked where to drill for the side lights. After marking, packed and went home.

Scuttle and Bulkhead

A couple more jobs done today.

Had to fix again the terminals on the wires for the oil pressure. One was pulled like if someone had given a pull on the wire. When I was working on it, since both wires were ties together, I pulled the other one...

Then, held the scuttle in place and drilled through the bulkhead and scuttle to hold the two pieces together. Released the scuttle to enlarge the holes and insert rivnuts. After that, got it in place and held it down on the chassis and the bulkhead to it. Since this part was done, attached the dash back to the bulkhead. The car is drivable once again!

Then I moved into understanding how the rubber straps that hold the hood on the car have to be installed. Was interrupted by a visiting neighbour. Since I had promised to take the kid to the movies after lunch, packed it all up after the neighbour was gone. Just spent 5 minutes on the storage room testing the strap with two pieces of wood. I understood the logic, just need to make a template with the distance between holes and then drill the chassis and hood. But it will have to be next week.

Small Things Under the Hood

Finally a morning working on the car!

Sorted the wiring on the dash. After reading my previous post, colleague builder Iain sent me a message saying that his car has a dangling purple wire on the digidash side. Armed with that, I confirmed that the other dangling was a match with the sole one from the loom and the dash is fully wired! THANK YOU, Iain! Can't thank you enough for these helps you give me!

Then I cut two lengths of wire to extend from the loom to where I'll have the brake oil pressure sensors (lids of the master cylinders). My current cylinder caps don't have sensors but I'll eventually get around to get some replacements, so the wire will be needed. And since I was messing with wires...

Third task was to make sure I had hood and scuttle on their final position. Still had to sand a bit the hood near the airbox to get a perfect fit. When I was happy with it, marked the chassis rails through the scuttle and then removed the parts and drilled.

Final task was to get the bulkhead in position and drill a few holes through it into the chassis to hold it down. It was until now in place only with the two bolts that hold the accelerator peddle to the chassis. Removed the bulkhead, enlarged the holes on the chassis and inserted rivnuts. Bulkhead back in and fixed down with bolts through the rivnuts.

Had to call it a day. Very happy with what I did, got rid of lots of small things. Next is fixing the bulkhead to the scuttle, the scuttle to the chassis and dash back at the scuttle. Then clamps for the hood.