Dar
18-01-06, 07:45 PM
I've finished my modifications on the car for now so I thought some of you might be intrested in seeing whats been done.
First of all I get rid of the dash, heater matrix and heater motor. I built another dash up which is loads lighter that the origonal. I am still looking in to a digital dash with datalogging facilitys at the mo, so the standard clocks will go at some point.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04563_800x600.jpg
Then I got one of these to play with
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04515_800x600.jpg
Which meant that I had to test it out, so I decided to cut out the brackets in the car that I wasn't using.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04514_640x480.jpg
However the main reason for borrowing the plasma cutter was to cut away the unwanted metal on the bulkhead.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04522_640x480.jpg
The reason for this was that I have two air filter options, one is loud on the drive by test and the other one is a tad quiter for more sensitve tracks.
So the metal was cut away and the bulkhead seamwelded back up.
It went from this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04509_800x600.jpg
To this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04541_800x600.jpg
Since the windscreen wiper bracket was one of the victims of the plasma cutter I decided to get a single wiper motor from a Fiat Uno and bolt that on. Piccys of the two air filter options
Loud
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04551_800x600.jpg
Not so loud
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04543_800x600.jpg
Since the windscreen was out I decided that the cage could do with tagging in to the A&B pillars. This should greatly improve the stifness of the car and make it handle even better. This has been annoying me for a while now because it should have been done when I was building the car.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04562_450x600.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04565_450x600.jpg
So I just need to get a heated screen fitted now and im ready for this years trackdays and sprints. I have lots of other plans for the car but this is it for the time being.
First of all I get rid of the dash, heater matrix and heater motor. I built another dash up which is loads lighter that the origonal. I am still looking in to a digital dash with datalogging facilitys at the mo, so the standard clocks will go at some point.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04563_800x600.jpg
Then I got one of these to play with
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04515_800x600.jpg
Which meant that I had to test it out, so I decided to cut out the brackets in the car that I wasn't using.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04514_640x480.jpg
However the main reason for borrowing the plasma cutter was to cut away the unwanted metal on the bulkhead.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04522_640x480.jpg
The reason for this was that I have two air filter options, one is loud on the drive by test and the other one is a tad quiter for more sensitve tracks.
So the metal was cut away and the bulkhead seamwelded back up.
It went from this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04509_800x600.jpg
To this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04541_800x600.jpg
Since the windscreen wiper bracket was one of the victims of the plasma cutter I decided to get a single wiper motor from a Fiat Uno and bolt that on. Piccys of the two air filter options
Loud
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04551_800x600.jpg
Not so loud
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04543_800x600.jpg
Since the windscreen was out I decided that the cage could do with tagging in to the A&B pillars. This should greatly improve the stifness of the car and make it handle even better. This has been annoying me for a while now because it should have been done when I was building the car.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04562_450x600.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC04565_450x600.jpg
So I just need to get a heated screen fitted now and im ready for this years trackdays and sprints. I have lots of other plans for the car but this is it for the time being.