Caleb is now nearly 8 months old, and whilst the purchases continue, progress does not!
I nearly have everything I require to finish the build, just some recent purchases include:
Savage switches
Luke Harnesses
In fact I'm pretty sure I have almost everything, except time.
This is why I am getting the build to a certain point and then handing it over to a very experienced builder to finish it off for me.
It's not what I wanted to do, and I won't get the level of satisfaction I would have got had I done it all myself, but at least I'll be able to use the car!
I will using the car for track days only for probably the first year, then in the winter of 08-09 I will try and get it road registered.
The jobs I want to get done prior to handing it over are as follows:
Seats in
Harnesses in
Dash in
Switches in dash
Clocks in dash
Lights mounted
Rear arches mounted
and diff changed over - I'm not sure if I have mentioend this before, but I received the car with a broken diff, and I have been waiting for AGES to get it fixed, but knowing NOTHING about car axles has limited me.
I purchased the replacement diff, and I was told "you undo some bolts, the diff drops out, you bolt the new one in - DONE"... though it isn;t that easy. At first I couldn;t get at the bolts I mentioned due to some spacers that were fitted, and with no brakes etc I couldn;t undo them... I finally used a breaker bar as something to lever against. Once this was taken off I found the brake back plate which I couldn't figure out how to get past without damaging - it seems I require a Slide Hammer, which pops the half shafts out the axel, which then means the front plate can be taken off and the new diff popped in.
The slide hammer has JUST arrived, and sods law I don't have enough room to use it in the garage, so I'm going to have to lift the car and move it to one side of the garage, use the slide hammer on one side, then move the whole car to the other side and remove the other half shaft! What a cuffufall!
This is just one of the enthusiasm and time sapping issues I have found whilst working through the jobs on this car.
The reason I wanted to post today though, was GOOD NEWS!
The drivers seat is IN! WOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!
I sat in it for the first time, and BOY it's snug, but I really got a feel for how the car will be when its finished! I CAN'T WAIT!
I was on track to buy a part built trailer chassis to trasnport my car on, but unfortunatly this didn;t work out due to how wide my car is :( never mind! I'll have to find another car transporter/trailer ready to get the car over to Steve's (the car builder).
I'll try not to take so long between updates next time.
