A Crack in the Body!

First the bad news, we have spotted a crack in the gelcoat. Don't know how bad or repairable this is yet, but can't do much about it at the moment.

We went to a westfield club meeting today, but due to iffy weather and the fact that we had to go early only saw three cars, and none very similar to our build. We learnt several things, but one of them is that aiming for perfection is probably silly. We made several other breakthroughs today (or at least we think they are). Firstly we discovered that the nosecone needs some spacers underneath it, this lifts it up a bit and solves the alignment problems we had been having, we got back from the pub and drilled out the holes joining bonnet and nose cone and temporarily joined them with M5 bolts and this seemed to get a nice alignement. Though later on we have to replace bolts with dowel and large rubber grommet, it remains to be seen if alignment will be as good when we have done that.

Chrissy went off to a party (lightweight) so Tim got himself covered in GRP dust by drilling out an exhaust hole (although it needs a lot of enlargement to get to the right size.

Our technique was to drill inside out using the template we had made from cardboard, and drill inside to out using the flexible drill drive that reminds me of nothing as much as an endoscope!

Then this gave some ranging holes (middle photo) and used those to set a first cutout.