Build Day 11/12

Build time today 5.0 hours - Total build time 36.5 hours.

Man time today 6.0 hours - Total man time 48.5 hours.

Managed to pop into Westfield on the way home a drop off the borrowed reamer, they were closed the day before when I passed. They said that there was a fault with the wish bone and sorted out a replacement, they just need to make sure they put it back in the kit.

Only managed to spend about an hour last night doing more of the wiring loom preparatory work. Managed to get the holes drilled at the from of the chassis and down the centre tunnel then got the car turned over fully so I could tackle the rear chassis.

Spend the morning fitting a hands free kit for a friends daughter then got on with the wiring loom preparation. Completed the drilling then riveted the cable tie clips in place. Hopefully this is the last time the car will be upside down as it is starting to get heavy to turn.

We then did some work on the rear suspension re-attaching the upper wishbone and setting the rose joints. As we now have the rose joints for the anti roll bars I did some more work on the front suspension checking that tall was assembled on and attaching the bell crank to the cross brace. I will leave attaching the remaining items until it is on the ground.

Right hand side suspension

Right hand side rose joints assembled and fitted

Left hand side rose joints assembled and fitted

Foot brace placed in position.

I then worked on the passenger foot brace purchased from eBay, without modification it would not fit at the end of the foot-well, so I had to flatten out the rear section and trim and re-bend to all it to fit snugly at the end of the foot-well. I think it should do just the job.

I started to insert the rivet nuts to attach the top aluminium cover but the rivet nut tool snapped while inserting the second rivet nut, it was supplied by the same people as the first flexible drive shaft the broke on the first afternoon. I have sent them an email, will have to see what the come back with. (UPDATE the supplier has sorted me out and supplied replacement tools, thank you AB Tools)