On the Road

 Paper work arrived this morning cant believe it .

Straight out to buy my plates , already insured 

Plates fitted waiting for the boss to come home from work 

Sat out on the the front getting loads of attention got to wait till 2pm Now 

And we are off 

5 years of work finally becomes a realty Yesses

Now just got to arrange a date for roof fitting 

 

Wind wings, grills and sun visors

Now the car has passed I can fit the Bits that were not allowed pre Iva 

Brought the sun visor kit home with me .

fiddly screws 

Seems quite straight forward just had to remember to fit the brackets pointing down or the roof wont fit 

The way the bracket fitted seemed to be a bit too big so i placed a washer on the pivit nut other than that  no issues .

Wind wings were the same idea but the brackets are different lengths

long one at the bottom and plastic washer between glass and hinge 

  

Bottom hinge 

IVA Test Date confirmed 13th Sept

After Quite a bit of hassling on my part managed to get an earlier date (just( now set for 13th Sept and Andy could do it fantastic > 

I drove down to Derby to meet the car and the test was on 

Was so the right decision to let Andy Take the car as when the tester queried something Andy had the answer straight off the batt .

IVA man measuring the height of the indicators
Note the extra headrests  
and the exhaust noise meter 

Test passed huge thanks to Andy .

Gold dust !!!

Car then back to Andys 

Waiting to be brought home by Jason 

What a bloody great day . 

Ready to go GD

 The IVA people ring you up with a date for the test and as I wanted Andy from GD to take the car there were quite a few phone calls to set a date that Andy could take it,I had been assured that Andys has a very high sucess rate and that was good enough for me 

Date finally set for 11th August .

Ready to go complete with fake number plate 

Andy wanted the car on the Monday before to give the car the once over and to place on the kit that is needed to pas ( square fog light extra silencers etc)  

Contacted a guy called Jason (  got the number from Gd )  and he came to pick it up in a covered trailer 

Very professional highly recommend  

It got there ok and everything all set for the 11th until ......... I recieved a phone call from the IVA booking tem telling me my test is cancelled because one of there machines has broke down !!!

Gutted  even worse the only day they can offer me is 26th Sept WTF !!!

Doors

 On to the back door finishers ,not straight forward from pictures from other cars they seem to be bent round the door ,expecting issues with this as stainless doesn't like to be bent and has the potential to look rubbish 

as supplied from GD 

After consultation with Steve we decided to cut the excess off and shape it round the door 

tail cut round to fit door 

Doors

Time to finally fit the doors already had the doors on so knew they would fit however need to fit the door cards first ,stuck the supplied clips to the card first 

Then made a cardboard template  to know were the hole want to be 

note circled hole more on that later 

then transferred this to the door to drill the holes 

holes drilled 

Had some spare sound deadening  left so put in on the back of the door as it might make a differance ?

On to the other door figured i could just turn the template round and it would fit but no the holes are similar but not the same hence the circles on the card so i kew which ones to avoid on the second door 

once done came to fitting the door handle couldnt find anything to fit the thread not metric nor unf ,call to Andy and he tells me it BA !! and advised me to tap it out 5mm .

Put the handle on first to stop the square spreading and tapped out

tapped 5mm 

then realized that the hinge covers will be easier to fit now so fitted them with self tappers ,found that the return edge caught the hinge so had to shorten it slightly 

one on 

then its time for the door finally 

one door 

I had bought the door finishers from GD and set to to fit these (well Steve did) 

They fit at each end of the door trim ( no surprise there then) 

the front one is straight forward .

fitted 

But the hinge pushes the carpet when shut and catches this ,going to have a think about this but one thought is to shaape the bracket like the mark but more on that later .

The second one seems a bit more complicated so enough for today and a beer 

Speedo check

 Didn't  think to check the Speedo but a quick call to Andy advised me that i should ( Steve  did say as well but ignored that advice .

Jacked the car up ,easier said that done as no space 

ended up making a set of low rise ramps out of some decking wood .

make shift low rise ramps 

once car jacked up and on stands into first gear on  tick over  35MPH ! works but maybe a bit fast  .

Easy enough to set by holding the trip button and then powering up goes in to set up menu 

currently set at 8000  Andy from GD said its wants to be at 28000  and now runs at 9MPh at tick over which is close enough .

Pain to do but one more job ticked off .

speedo working

Wipers

 Easy job i thought just fit the wipers  however they needed some fettling to make them follow the contour of the windscreen 

First job was to confirm that the wipers still parked the right way ( just in case ) and they did 

they are also adjustable but mine did not adjust far enough so had to cut off 25m and bend in the vice 

looks  good  

just need to bend the tab over 

IVA Paperwork

 Time to fill in the IVA paperwork quite straight forward with the help sheet from GD , just need to remember to include all the bits reqd which can be easily missed 

1 amateur build declaration

2 application form

3 copy of major item invoices (chassis, body, engine, gearbox suspension and steering ) 

4 Copy of Driving license 

5 2 pages of pictures showing i built it 

6 all pages signed 

7 Declaration of newness ( from GD)

Planning on the car going to GD week before to have the IVA pack put on and for Andy to have a look at anything that could make it fail .

Indicator Stalks

 wanted to trail  fit the stalks and the housing before sticking the leather to it and realized that i had left the stalk cables too long and had loads of cable to lose but hey ho .

All fitted on the steering coulomb so happy ,fitted the leather with the join at the bottom and pushed the front on and left to dry ,leaving the leather long at the moment until i see what its looks like on 

waiting to dry 

When we offered it up it didnt fit as well as we wanted ,biggest issue was that the surround it cut out for a key and i dont have one .this tends to make the leather crumple in ,solved with a piece of plastic from a paint tray to fill it out now looks better 

final fit