I’ve tried to make a bit of progress with the horrific list this weekend. As usual, I seem to have made rather less progress than would seem reasonable. One issue is that it’s COLD in the garage. I hate this time of year…
As you can see, I’ve finished panelling the pedal box, although I’m still thinking about sturdifying it all a bit more. I’ll have to get a suitable friend along to ask for some advice while I heave on the pedal. All the same, that’s one of the jobs that I mentioned in the last post.
Another one was to make some sort of foot rest. I need 
my feet to be a little bit higher and I also want some sort of heel rest. So, I modified the original foot rest I made for the original pedal box as in the next photo. All I’ve done here is make a couple of little spacers on the lathe, you can see the retaining bolts sticking up, and lengthened it slightly. I’ve also put in a few more rivnuts so as to provide a collection of places to mount the heel rest. OK, I admit I haven’t actually made that yet but it’s just a piece of ally angle. You may notice that the throttle pedal is missing. I took it out to make a bit more space but it’s easy to put back.
Unfortunately, that leaves me with only 1 job taken off the list, because I forgot one in the list I posted before. So, here’s the current list, except that I’ve split it into two parts: one that must be done before testing and one that must be done before racing:
Pre test:
- Fit dampers and springs.
- Fit/fabricate towing straps.
- Make seat
- Insulate seat back. (I’m worried about getting the driver too hot!)
- Fabricate/fit front ARB.
- Fabricate/fit rear ARB.
- Fit carbon fibre splitter.
- Mount a camera somehow.
- Do a mega bolt check.
- Make a windscreen of some form.
- Lubricate and re-tension the chain.
- Setup the suspension. This’ll have to be a guess at first but it’s a start. One issue with this is that I think I’m going to have to modify the little gadgets that extend the track rod ends as I think they’re a smidge too long.
- I’m still not too sure that the pedal box is as sturdy as I want it to be, so check that.
- Pin the lower part of the sidepods to the chassis floor. I’m not totally sure that they need it, but just to be sure…
- Adjust the bonnet pins.
- Make rear undertray
- Fit lamp covers
Pre race:
- Fabricate some sort of inlet for the airbox.
- Possibly as part of that, make a cover for the upper injectors and fuel line. As it is at the moment it’ll give a scrutineer heart failure.
- Fit roundels and race numbers. Fit other missing decals.
- Think about adding additional triangulation to the engine compartment.
- Touch up rear bodywork paint.
- Add some yellow.
- Transfer the transponder (it’s my number) from the Fury.
- Fabricate a chain guard
- Fit the catch tank.
- Get a lambda boss welded into the exhaust system. While this is being done, get the little fitting on the exhaust that I damaged re-welded.
For some reason it looks less daunting as two lists…