Build Diary - 21st August 2005
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All refreshed from my hols I decided to spend some more money and fit a quickshift gearlever from Quaiffe. As you can see from the pic the std sierra lever is unnecessarily long and will be replaced with this nice shorter version from Caterham. This should have been a case of 'unbolt the old one & replace' however the circular locator ring on the bottom of the new lever was bigger in diameter than the hole in the tiger remote. I spent ages trying to cut a bigger hole in the 5mm thick steel plate with a blunt jigsaw.... |
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Next job was to cover the exhaust headers with heat wrap tape and bolt them in place. |
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Once the headers were in place the collector simply pushes into place and the silencer finishes it off..... (yeah right!) |
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What really happens is the 4 small pieces of tube that are welded together to make the collector all distort from the heat of welding. This now means they are no longer circular and therefore need plenty of adjustment with a large mallet before they come even close to fitting. Persevere though, as eventually with the aid of a larger hammer the collector 'slots' into place! The next job is to file the edges down on the silencer as there is no way its going to pass an SVA test with all those sharp edges - Thanks Tiger.. |
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Got bored with the exhaust and fitted the gear lever boot and handbrake boot with good old duct tape! |
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The scuttle was bolted in place so I could line up the bonnet to fit the nosecone. This will have to be removed so that I can make up the dashboard etc. This is fitted by placing it 255mm from the front of the battery tray, drilling 4 x 8mm holes in the chassis and bolting it on. |
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With the scuttle fixed and the bonnet placed loosely on top the nose cone can be positioned. |
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I have no idea how the nose is supposed to fit. It is too wide for the chassis where it meets the bonnet and not wide enough by the radiator. In the end I fitted 2 x M6 rivnuts in the top chassis rail and dropped 2 M6 bolts through the nosecone and sort of 'pulled' the nose into shape and left it like that for the time being! It will need to fixed at the bottom when I have sanded the edges and fitted the grille. |
