Wing Mirrors / IVA Ready

Sunday 28^th August

Prepared the screen for fitting today, this will be fitted after the IVA as it is not a requirement for the test, however the top fitting holes for the windscreen are also where the wing mirrors fit. So I marked out where the screen will fit, assembled the screen uprights to screen frame, place it on the car and marked out the holes for the wing mirrors. The car is now ready for the test (hopefully) J.

The Car Finished, well ready for IVA anyway I still have a few jobs to do but these can wait until the IVA is done

Cycle wing stays bottom bolt

Saturday 27^th August

Had a bit of a nightmare today, I was putting the bottom bolts onto the cycle wing stays, these will hold the cycle wing stay uprights away from the tyre, the drivers went in no problem, but when I put the passenger side the bloody bolt snapped, this meant that a quick 5 minute job turned into a couple of hrs L. I had to remove the from passenger side hub, drill out the snapped bolt, this meant that I no longer had a threaded hole to put a new bolt back into, so while the hub was disassembled, I put a longer bolt through the hole and welded the head to hub, this worked fine so reassemble the hub and put it back on the car.

IVA Payment

Friday 26^th August

Had a phone call from the DVLA, they have taken payment for the IVA test so hopefully a date should follow soon.

Battery location

Monday 15^th August

Sent off al the paperwork today for the IVA test that car requires to be road legal. Need to wait now for them to ring me for payment, and then hopefully some time after that I will get my test date.

Swapped battery and the water expansion tank, as the bonnet was hitting the top of the battery.



Decided to fit some stripes on the car to break up all the orange on the front. I decided on a 3 piece stripe, one wide in the centre with 2 smaller ones on either side.

Battery tie down

Sunday 7^th August

Fitted the fabricated battery tray by riveting it into place, I then used the tiger supplied bonnet springs with a fabricated ally strap to hold the battery down.



Interior / Temp sender

Saturday 6^th August

Fitted all the carpets, then fitted the seats, this quite a fiddly job and took a while. Also fitted the four point harnesses, as they need to be bolted in prior to the seats going in

Parts for the temperature sender arrived today, so fitted those, had a few problems with cooling system, the gauge was reading 40 degrees, however the fan was cutting in, which happens at approx 90 – 95 degrees, so I took the thermostat out, cut all the centre out of it (the bit that opens and closes when it reaches temperature) refitted the o ring to the outer part and refitted it in the car, the cooling is now sorted, and works as it should.

Fitted the trims around the front cycle wings, fitted caps to the bolts where needed, covered the steering arms with some rubber hose and tie wraps, all the above should now meet the required radius on the external protrusions.

Sunday 7^th August

Fitted the fabricated battery tray by riveting it into place, I then used the tiger supplied bonnet springs with a fabricated ally strap to hold the battery down.

Dash and instruments

Sunday 31^st July

Fitted the dash and instruments (went a bit wrong here, as i cut the holes in the vinyl I cut too much away on the oil pressure gauge, you can see the foam at the edge of the clock. I intend to change the dash once through IVA as there are a few things i am not happy with) put all the clocks, switches and warning lights in the dash, then rested it on the tunnel while I wired it up. I had to extend the wires for the fog light as they would not reach where I had put the switch, I also had to extend the wires for the warning lights on the alpha loom. Once all were wired I then tidied up all the extended wiring on the rear with insulation tape, then tie wrapped it up to get it as neat as possible. Also fitted the rear carpet.

Headlights and Indicators

Saturday 30^th July

Fitted the headlights today, I had to use some spacers to give them a bit more height as they were hitting the cycle wings on full lock. I then shortened the wires and wired the lights into the tiger loom.

Next I made some extensions for the indicators, for this I used some 13mm copper tubing, I knocked some M8 nuts into the ends so I could fit the indicator to the copper tube and the copper tube to the nosecone, I then sprayed the copper tubes black. I had to extend the wires for the indicators, then wired them into the tiger loom.

Also fitted the side repeaters, I decided to fit these to the scuttle, I can then run the wiring for them from the indicator lights that will be on the dash, the tiger loom does not supply the wiring for the side repeaters so this was made up and added to the loom. The problem is though it looks like I have fitted them in the wrong place L it seems they need to be visible from some weird angle at the rear of the car to pass IVA, so looks like I will have to move these at a later date.

Bonnet Catches

Friday 29^th July

I decided to buy some decent bonnet catches as I don’t like the ones supplied with the kit so I bought Aero Catches, they arrived today so fitted these. I fitted 3 of the catches to the bonnet, one on the driver’s side due to the shape of the bonnet that flares out over the throttle bodies and two for the passenger side. I used the template supplied with the catches to mark out position the bonnet, I then drilled a 10mm hole and cut out the shape with a jig saw. I then fitted the strikers onto to the top chassis rails in the engine bay. The fitting was easy enough but it took a while to get the strikers in tight position to hold the bonnet down properly, I also had to bend the front passenger side one slightly to get it to line up, good job they are made of ally and are easy to bend J