Now for a little further update on the past weeks work,
After successfully starting and running the engine in my last post, i am pleased to say that it wasn't a one off, the engine has run 7 or 8 times more since, mainly to check for leaks in the fuel and cooling system, which so far every thing has seemed to hold its fluids, but the most important thing is that there is still no sign of water appearing from around the head gasket (breaths a big sigh of relief) since running it a few more times the HLAs have gone a lot quieter after filling back up with oil. all thats left to do now with the engine is just check the timing when i can get my hands on a timing light.
Now after reading Complete kit car magazine this month there was an article on a guy that had taken his car for IVA and had failed on a few points, one of them was concerning some thing that effected me!
Now in my earlier posts right at the start of the build, i wrote about the fact that westfield has not welded the bracket to my chassis where the T piece for the brake light switch is fitted, now after speaking to 'Westfield Technical' they said that it would be fine to fir a riv nut into the chassis to attach this, so i did as they said.
But it turns out after reading the section in the mag, this was one of the points he had failed on with his car. So to get round this it needs to be properly bolted to chassis rail with visible threads passing through it. so this was promptly changed at the weekend, luckily it was spotted in the magazine other wise we would have become stuck on this point when we went for IVA. )Good spot dad!!)
As things are now starting to come together nicely, i am starting at the back of the car and working forward making sure every thing is finished, and getting all the little jobs sorted out.
So to finish off the back end, the crud catchers have been fitted into the rear wheels arches, the speed sensor has been located facing the drive shaft nuts on a small bracket and the wire run along the tunnel.
next job was to fit the new high level brake light to the roll bar, in the end i purchased a Hella Thinlite, this comes in at only 10mm thick and makes for a very unintrusive fit on the back of the bar, the wire for the light has been run through inside the bar and down underneath the rear boot cover, i had previously placed a wire from the main rear loom to power the high level brake light already.
Once this had been done it then meant that the rear boot cover and roll bar could be fitted for hopefully the final time! see picture above.
the IVA spec dash is now ready to be covered with vinyl and fitted to the car.
The issue with the wiper wiring has now been sorted out, this was down to some iffy instructions from westfield with regards how to wire up the motor.
there are some little bits left to do with the wiring, but that should be sorted out over the easter weekend, which i hope to spend it all working on the car with a big push to complete the final parts.
Steering wheel arrived today, after much debate over size and what to go for, i left the choice to my dad, to which i have to say he managed to make a great choice, and went for a 280mm MOMO wheel. pics to follow soon...
New wheels have also been ordered, i have stuck to tradition and gone for some Team Dynamic 1.2s but in a matt black finish, 15 inch running 195/50/15 Toyo T1R tyres, now it turns out that i think i need to thank westfield for a bit of a muck up on their part with the front mud guards, when i went to collect the chassis i asked for black fenders, but in true westfield tradition when i turned up it had red ones, and that they didnt have any black ones in stock, but after phone call i was told that they did have some black ones, but they were meant to be going on a race series car, but after a little chat they said i could have those, now it wasn't till last weekend when i was measuring up for the wheels did i notice the width of these fenders, they measure 240mm internal width and make the current 185 tyres look lost. meaning that i should have any issues running my 195 tyres and an ET35 offset with the new wheels.
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