Modifications

 Dash out first which was more involved than i thought as one of the securing screws was turning in the dash .

Managed to get it out after removing the screen vent ( well Steve did!) 

Swapping the guages is straight forward on rebuild as the loom is long enough just need a hole for the trip button .

On to the alarm ,bought 2 red flashing led's a 3mm and 5mm 

3mm is going to be too small 

Plan to place it on the steering wheel cover 

While the dash is out i have elected to go for a buzzer instead of trying to make the indicators self canceling as i like the idea of it being retro .

I was going to make one from transistors ( from my apprentice days ) but eBay to the rescue as i could buy one for less than a fiver 

Off the road for winter and some tweeking

 Took the car off the road as December is too cold for me and Cobras,

Just because the car was done wasn't finished as needed to tweak a few bits 

1 -  I  wanted to swap the speedo and rev counter over after IVA so the rev couter is my side 

Original fitting of speedo 

2 - I have an alarm but no visible light so want to add a flashing led somewhere

3  - I would like  an aux socket behind the drivers seat in case i fit a dash cam 

4  - Andy says the ECU can have a switchable second map which reduces horsepower and throttle 

       response which will be an advantage for cruising and when the wife is driving

5 -  I need to do something with the indicators either alter them to self cancel of fit some kind of buzzer so  I don't  leave them on  

further to follow  

Roof fitted and back home

 Picked up the car From Andy's 

Roof all fitted and suspension set up and ECU all set up with cut outs etc 

Looks great 

Hood fitted ( side screens still in the boot) 

Going for the roof fitting

 After the GD  owners open day it became apparent that most owners let Andy fit the roof  as it has the potential to go horribly wrong .

With this in mind I was allocated a slot to have the roof fitted and at the same get Andy to set the suspension up for me .

Car was booked in on 14th November wooly hat and gloves and off I go in convoy with my son who is going to bring me back .

Stayed dry but a little bit of road spray caused me to stop off at Macdonald's for a windscreen clean and a coffee .

Outside Lincoln Maccies 

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