Two Go Mad In The Garage

How two numpties try to build a Westfield kit car.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Not so easy today

Spent the morning mostly clearing up/sweeping out the garage before we continued. This gave us both dreadful hayfever and we had to stop until after we had watched England struggle past Ecuador (is Sven the worst value for money manager in the world?, how many million a year and our cat could do a better job.... and it's dead).

We marked up the scuttle according to the "manual"/guide/work of fiction/book designed to make you screw things up for the heater fixing holes. Made the measurements a dozen times before drilling, but then found that using the manual measurements put the top holes too close to a protrusion on the rear of the scuttle and so the heater won't actually fit! Thinking we may drill some extra holes in the heater bracket rather than redrill the scuttle - both for aesthetic reasons (don't want two redundant holes in the scuttle even if it is on the bit under the bonnet) and for engineering reasons (two sets of close together holes on the fibre glass holding up heavy heater looks like a recipe for cracks).

Also have spotted a place on the front nearside where the body fouls one of the pipes the body, options are move pipe (leaves redundant holes and means moving a rivnut on one of the bigger pipes) or 'fettling' the body and bonnet lip back around that area - thinking at the mo. we'll take the latter option.

Still at least the garage is clean!

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