Got a few hours here and there on the car
I'm really starting to run out of things to really sink my teeth into until I send my intercooler and ECU over, I'm hoping to have the intercooler by the end of next week.
None the less i made a bit more progress on odd jobs as such.
I went to fit the window wiper motor to try and complete the scuttle panel area but very quickly hit an issue
Once in the motor would only rotate this far as failing on some scaffold pole that someone had put in the way
A bit of creativity with the grinder soon solved that issue
My friend from Wickham swung by and dropped this off the other day.
I threaded it all through roughly where i wanted it and started by fixing it at the rack to then pull the slack back to the fuel cell area.
I'm currently waiting on some p-clips to fix it to the underside of the car as didn't have the correct ones knocking about. I'm also currently waiting on my 8AN hose to complete the link between rack-cooler and cooler-pump.
Next up i made some headwind on the dash, I'd originally planned on waiting till i had the ECU to have access to run cables etc through the bulkhead but needs must decided to press on.
Sorry didn't actually get to many pics during the many adjustments and cuts i made to the panels but will get the general gist
I had to cut away all the left hand hinged area so an addition of a little hinge from the local DIY store was welcomed to keep it together
Next up was driver side, i made adjustments to the WMI loom and added a relay for the solenoid but sorry forgot to take pics
More adjustments to the side support as i moved the fuse box slightly
Clocks and few other little bits followed
Now was time to play with my steering wheel that has sat in the cupboard for what seems like eternity
I had an adaptor boss as well as a quick release boss to fix to it, I'm quite set on having a quick release for ease of access and quite frankly like it as a security feature.
Next i come across an issue with the horn contacts foul on the quick release adapter, the adapter has no recess for these contacts.
Options are to get over this at the moment are
1. New snap off boss
2. No snap off boss
3. Spacer between snap off boss and wheel
4. No horn on steering wheel
Out of them options the spacer seems like the easiest and retains the central horn but as i found when testing with the seat in it just felt a bit to close to me for my liking even with the column retracted fully.
Sadly enough I did really enjoy sitting in my car pretending to be a racing driver with the seat and steering wheel bolted on