Build Day 55

Build time today 1.0 hours - Total build time 146.0 hours.

Man time today 1.5 hours - Total man time 167.5 hours.

Bodywork fitted, it did not take long, no more than 5 minutes and it was on. Quite a lot of force was used, more than I would have been happy to use but surprisingly if fits. I still am not sure how much it stretches.

Spent some time in the eventing cutting the clearance holes in the sides that allow the scuttle to be attached. There are two rivet nuts on either side and the body work needs to be cut to clear them. For the two closed to the front of the chassis I had enough play in the side bodywork to pull clear of the chassis and use a small holes saw, the the other two I pushed a piece of aluminium off cut between the chassis and body work and used a small drill to cut a ring of holes before using my Dremel to finish.
I finished for the evening not totally happy with the fit of the scuttle as the front cornet of the passenger side would not sit flush with the side.

Build Day 54

Build time today 1.0 hours - Total build time 145.0 hours.

Man time today 1.0 hours - Total man time 166.0 hours.

Spent an hour trimming the inner edges of the body work so that it stood a chance of fitting over the chassis. the difficult part was getting the body work in a position I could get at it.  After some some thought I managed to arrange a couple of stools (with plenty of additional padding and protection) and some trestles to support the body work while turned over. it was then straight forward to clean up the edges to allow a better fit over the body. 

Once done the body work was returned to its stored position ready for fitting later in the week. After discussing with Westfield they had volunteered to pop down and fit the body work. A big advantage of living so close to the factory.

Body work in it'as stored position which left enough room
for my wife's car. 

Bodywork turned upside down to gain access.