Last bit of leather

 Fitted the leather and the back of the seats found the easiest way was to use velcro 

straight forward 

finishes off nice 

Leather

 First piece of leather to fit is the transmission tunnel top cover ,was dreading this so needed moral support in the way of Steve .

Marked the top of the gear stump with grease and placed the leather on top to give us a clue .

then cut a small hole just big enough for the shaft .

Cutting out the small hole 

It would then lay on the transmission tunnel in the right place ,between us we came up with the idea of replacing the bolts with sharpened studs which will mark the fiberglass backer 

sharpened studs 

this worked very well and gave us the position of the three holes  then using the ring we could calculate the diameter and position of the gearstick hole .

This was drilled out with a hole saw and then the leather was cut with a knife .

The gater was eased into position and stretched until it fitted in the ring and then screwed down.

sure, he hates me 

the finished effect looks brill thanks Steve 

the back of the leather lifts up but that should be trapped by the back piece and if not going to glue some velcro tape to the back which will stick it to the carpet .

Boot Carpet

 Went on to something easy after the exhaust .boot carpet seems straight forward  4 side pieces  2 bottom bits and a back bit .

As i was fitting the carpet i remembered that i have earthed the tank to the filler but then thought the tank is sat in a fiberglass shell and completely isolated ! Decided  to run an extra earth wire though the roll bar gap and secure it to an earth .

Earth wire from tank going down 

Carpet fitting was straight forward started with sides.

one side on 

then the bottom ,I appear to be luckier than other bloggers as my carpet already had the cut outs for the roll bars and the carpet was already fitted with velcro to secure it back after fitting .

bottom fitted 

the only fiddly bit was once the last piece was fitted needed to refit the boot catch and that traps the carpet ,very carefully drilled up to make holes in the carpet and then temp helf in place with an allen key until i got the bolts in .

All fitted 

Carpets next part

 Got a bit of time in the garage to day and was getting frustrated as the the next job was to fit the side carpet.

I was struggling with this because i didn't have enough power in my left arm to fit it and tuck it behind the pedal box .

Steve dropped in for a Tea and assisted ( well fitted it ) and it looks good Thanks Steve well worth the tea and the Subway .

Fitted the Stainless steel finishers to the windscreen stanchions as well these fit on the bottom button head so had to be careful not to disturb the washers behind it .Very  happy with how it all looks .

Drivers side 

always seems to be cables everywhere 

Door carpet and Door

 After the Bathroom replace its back on the car !

In order to fit the door properly figured the carpet will need to be in as this might alter the fit of the door 

fitting the door carpet is quite straightforward with a bit of pulling and stretching to make the carpet sit right with the rubber ..

door carpet fitted 

Could only fit partially as needed to adjust the hinges so a bit of a mess about but happy

moving on to the door card and it comes pre drilled with the hole for the handle  

hole cut were the cardboard was pre cut 

when trying to fit the door card to the door the hole seemed to be in the wrong place and would make the door card sit wrong when the door is shut .

solution was to move the door handle to fit the card .

door handle fitted on the bracket also drilled/ tapped the sliding bracket to stop it moving 
 

door handle moved to fit the door card ,

now it fits the card and the card follows the contour of the door .the door card sits on the door with the normal push fit door fasteners so fitted those and then mad a cardboard template so i can tranfer this to the door .

card template 

door masked out ready to be marked 

Bits and Bobs

Bonnet 

 Fitting the Bonnet catches next again measured on a recent trip to GD and using the wiper arms as a reference marked the bonnet and made sure both sides were the same before drilling and fitted with self tapping screws ,The bonnet is double skinned and the handles carry the weight of the bonnet so might change to button head bolts yet .

Handles fitted 

Moving into the engine bay marked a parallel line from the catch and measured down 25mm and that was the first hole for the catch , then made sure that the catch followed the curve of the body ,fastened with button heads.

drivers side fitted 

Moving on to the transmission tunnel needed to fit the gear cover ring again had to be careful not to snag the carpet so went for drilling backwards which seemed to work .

Like button heads better than the usual self tappers 

Fuel Tank 

Needed to fit the fuel flex pipe as not long away from needing fuel .Had already taken the tank to have a earth stud welded on courtesy of  Mirus Engineering So after socking the pipe in hot water to make it forgiving fitted that together with an earth wire from the filler to the tank .

pipe and wire fitted ( thanks Connor ) 

Undertrays 

There are two undertrays that fit under the dash and i know its probably a complete waste of time but i have decided to fit Bluetooth speakers so needed to cut out for this and the reverse lock out button .

Drivers side cut out and sprayed ( both sides because i sprayed the wrong side first )  

Centre tray 

After fitting the center tray  could finally fit the ecu  this was not as easy as i first thought as there is not enough room when the dash is fitted to fit the ecu to the panel .I overcame this by only securing the ecu with the front screws and making sure that it was pushed back as far as it would go . now i have enough room .

ECU fitted

The pink wire hanging down needs to connect to the bared white wire above it as that is the fuel pump supply .

Seatbelts

 Using a four point harness needed the two bottom brackets fitting next .looking at other blogs noticed that I had different brackets to everyone else  as one had a return on it 

Handed brackets that could go in multiple places 

Again using past pictures sorted out were they go and drilled them accordingly 

Applied sealant to the underside of the plate to keep it in place and stop any water rising up 

also had to buy the nuts as none came with the kit and they were 7/16 UNF  ( e bay to the rescue )

drilled and fitted in the correct place 

 Cut the bolt to length ensuring 2 threads showing  after the carpet was refitted 

eye bolts fitted though the carpet ( back carpet laid in ) 

At this point had to see what the harness would look like to fitted it in to see love it .

looking more like a car every day 

Carpet Part 1

 Was dreading fitting the carpets but couldn't go much further without starting  so panicked a bit and bribed Steve with beer and we tacked the transmission tunnel .

Placed the carpet were it need to be at the back and found that this was too far forward for the lay of the carpet to match the transmission tunnel and need to be back about 25mm 

happy with that cut the hole for the gearstick .hovered out all the area and covered the cables with carpet tape

carpet tape on the cables both sides 

Then is was showtime sprayed carpet glue on the transmission tunnel and the carpet and waited for it to just go tacky to give us some working time .

any excuse to get high 

carpet had to come back 25mm 

carpet smoothed out and fits the transmission tunnel 

Fitting the 2 screws that hold the bracket to tunnel were a challenge as didn't want to drill the carpet in case it pulled ended up knocking a 5mm bolt through the hole as a makeshift punch rough i know but worked ,

Carpets

A pile of carpet pieces arrived, ages ago with the leather seats and other stuff and I thought that I would know were everything went but when it came to it I didn't. When I looked at other blogs, I found that they assumed we all knew where to put the bits too. I have copied Dales Blog here as he has fitted his !!!

Boot carpet

So here is his  take on where all the pieces go, starting with the boot:

Side panels near lights in boot

Side panels above rear axle area in boot

Main floor piece above rear axle, fuel tank and vertical surfaces of wheel arches in boot

Rear floor area and up under boot lock striker plate

Main boot floor area

Found in the kit 2 pieces of carpet that go in the footwells each side ,before I fitted these I wanted to know if I was happy with the pedals .
I had adjustment on the pedals if needed as I had 2 x 5mm plates on the back side of the pedal box so in theory could move the whole thing 10- mm closer if needed .

So a seat try was in order .I already had the seat runner holes drilled for by GD , so simple job of fitting ?? no the seat was too close to the centre and there was no carpet on yet .Had to move the holes 10 mm outwards .

Seat in and the fit is right with the Pedals