Preparing for first body fitting

Completed a couple more tasks this evening (and spent still more money on tools) prior to hopefully first body fitting tomorrow. Fitted the speedo transducer bracket to the front offside wheel, this is a stupid position as (a) wiring exposed to elements (b) not a great place to try and get precision fit that is needed (c) when it gets to the SVA test their rolling road speedo test won't work as it assumes back wheels drive speedo.

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Also did some final-ish bits on the cooling system.


Order of work now is something like that shown below, tempted to try and start engine before final body riveting but umming and erring about pros and cons of that.



Before (First) Body Fitting….

Torque up lower steering column again

Fit rear wheel arches to body shell


When the body is on first time….

Work out positioning and tack in place with two rivets up and G clamps

Drill 12.5mm hole through metal tabs for roll bar

Work out boot box positioning and work out what to drill on that

Cut out 51mm holes from the body fibre glass around where the roll bar goes

Test fit roll bar

Check light fittings location are within SVA spec and mark them

Mark up exhaust outlet location from template

Mark up Fuel filler location, taking care not to impede where lights go

Check coolant pipe locations on the body

Check front brake pipe locations on the body

Check the final wiring routes with the scuttle resting in place


When the body is off again

Drill at least the pilot hole for the fuel filler (probably best to complete on the car, but pilot hole best drilled when body is off to help avoid drilling in wrong place)

Cut out hole for exhaust

Fit lights

Paint rubber undercoat in arches?

Tidy up all of the wiring we can without scuttle in place

Check everything is torqued up that needs to be

Complete last two P-clips for coolant system location

Check all the wiring we can


Other to do stuff that doesn’t have to be done before body fitting


Radiator Overflow Pipe - what to seal it up with?

Cut accelerator cable unused length (what is the best way?)

Mark up Scuttle for heater pipes (are they too high?)Drill Scuttle for heater pipes

Stick on the demister distibutor thing (buy glue?, find it?)

Work out run of washer bottle pipe…see other document