It now had got to the point of having to make and fit the seat rails. I used details on the steel gauge from the resident crustations thread. Iirc the box section was 30x30x3mm and plates were 50x80x3mm.
I put the seat in on some blocks to get a rough position of how far back I wanted to go and then aimed to place the bars on the centre hole of each set of mounting holes on the seat side mounts
I measured the hole spacings on the seat and used the steering wheel as a centre line to work from, it is surprisingly closer to the tunnel than what first looks like centre
This is roughly how the seat will end up
With the seats in the next natural step was the harness mounting points. I made a big mistake with this at first, I had read on a forum that can be placed nut side up and just went with it. It was then pointed out by prawn and a couple of others that should be the other way up (which makes complete sense when you think of it)
This was the way I originally put them on and after being corrected cut them out and re welded the other way.
I also had a little mishap during welding these in! I had pulled the fuel lines well clear but little to my knowledge as had a respirator on as well as welding mask, the car under seal had caught light rather than the usual smouldering. I realised it was smokey when I lifted the mask up and didn't think to much of it and went to open up the other end of the tent to let air through and upon my return I saw the flames from under the car :0
The under seal had caught light and spread to the fuel lines, I ran indoors and luckily Chloe had just washed up so grabbed the bowl of water and frantically chucked at the underside of the car. I got away with it and put it out but has made me rethink and pay more attention.
Picture really doesn't look that bad but can assure you was producing some rather large flames
Finished mount welded on (the right way round lol)
Next up was to start prepping for paint and sealing any areas up that were exposed from welding/fabricating and I also applied some filler to any damaged areas where removed a lot of spot welds
I used some hammerite rust remover on anywhere with a sign or surface rust followed by washing the car inside 3 times, which was a very weird sensation
The rust remover left a rather brown mark after cleaning it off but this cleaned off to a certain degree with solvent
Seam sealant was applied on the welds through to the bulkhead followed by good old hammerite direct to rust
Same process was applied to the underneath of the shell and anywhere else out of the internal cabin area
TBC