One day left to get ready for the test

The SFRO test was postponed to this coming Wednesday but even with an extra couple of days it's been a struggle to get everything ready. I've had a list of 20 things to do and have only tomorrow to finish ticking everything off. The upper steering bracket is now in place. I got myself a piece of 2mm steel and used the nibbler to cut it to shape. The BMW support housing fitted snuggly and hopefully it will pass the test.

The bracket had to be about 3cm longer

Bracket painted and bolted to the bulkhead, frame and BMW housing.

On Tuesday I managed to bend the bonnet almost to shape using a large industrial sheet metal bender (with some help). 

Neil came around Thursday evening and we managed to bolt in the passenger seat and rails, a very time consuming and awkward job. One of the exhaust support brackets bolts luckily came through the floor exactly where the rail was sitting so fortunately it ended up serving two purposes and was quite a neat solution. It means that both seats are adjustable and are the same height off the floor. We drilled and Cleco'd the scuttle (black dashboard) to the aluminium bulkhead.

Neil kindly finished riveting the side panels and we test fitted the bonnet. It just needs some slight adjustment of angles. Tonight I fixed the two bonnet catches at the rear and tomorrow will adjust the front and attach the catches.

The catches have to be riveted in place and there is no adjustment!

This next part is maybe something I shouldn't mention (The walls have ears!) The  sound level maybe a bit too close to the limits so the muffler insert helps reduce it.

It's not what you think it is! The muffler on it's own had no real effect as the diameter didn't match the exhaust pipe (plus it rattled). A bit of wire wool wrapped around with wire reduced it from around 80 to 72dB (Idle in the garage)

I bought an extinguisher when Fredrik and I picked up the kit in January. There wasn't much space for it in the car so I riveted it in the rear luggage area. I was also concerned about stone chips from the front wheels so bought a couple of trailer mud flaps from "Jula". They are a little too narrow but will do until I find something else.

I will need to order a new windscreen from Peter as the old one, placed high up on a shelf for the last six months came down with a crash after the bloody cat was wondering around up there!

I'll peel all the protective sheet off all the panels on Wednesday before it goes for the test.

The electrics are all done and working exept the main/dip headlights. Hopefully Peter and I can get this sorted tomorrow so I can then get the switches and instrument cluster in place.