Build Day 53

Build time today 3.0 hours - Total build time 144.0 hours.

Man time today 3.0 hours - Total man time 165.0 hours.

Bracket held in place by a
pipe off-cut

I hoped to get the body work on, but before I was going to try I wanted to fabricate a bracket to hold the fuel tank breather pipe secure, where it passes the roll bar mount it is loose and though I have it protectively wrapped it is still likely to vibrate and cause a resonance through the fuel tank. I made a small bracket from aluminium plate that will be secured when the roll bar is fitted, it has as a cable tie anchor riveted to it and will hold the breather pipe secure.

Before attaching the bodywork I thought I would check the measurements and found that based upon the measurements I had taken it would not fit, the internal measurement where the rear panel fits over the back of the cockpit is 1013mm but measuring the body work it is just under 1020. I think rather then trying and possibly damaging the body work I would get some guidance from the helpful people at Westfield. 

I even managed to get the body work stored at the rear of the garage so that my wife could still get her car in.

This left me at a bit of a loose end so I decided to have a go at carbon fibre wrapping one of the wing mirrors, these are one area of the car that has some room for improvement (my my opinion anyway) and I thought until something more permanent, like different mirrors, carbon wrapping seemed to be a resonable short term solution.
Doing the mirror was a little easier than the pedal cover but still far from straight forward. I used my workbench to clamp the mirror in so that I could use both hands while balancing my wife's hair dryer on a block of wood. The result though not 100 percent perfect is not bad, I am sure with practice I would get better.