Wednesday I gave all the panels to Stefan at IBL a specialist in aluminium welding. He's going to fill all the unwanted holes and bumps ready for me to drill new bonnet catch holes and rear light recesses and then take them over to Danbolack for powder coating. In the mean time I did some small jobs on the scuttle including drilling holes for the wipers, washer and also window defrost vents.
Holes for the wipers blade hubs drilled at 45 degrees
One wiper hub in place, I hope it's going to be easy to connect the wiper motor cable to these once all the electrics, heater, dashboard etc. are in place. It'll be a bit of a tight fit!
A washer head that I bought separately from the kit but on a small car it looks a bit too big!
Wiper blade arm shortened by 65mm so the blade doesn't hit the top of the windscreen.
All the holes drilled and the switches and BMW dash taken out ready to sand and fill so it's ready for painting in a few weeks time.
I bolted the washer water bottle in place but will run the cables and water hose later on. I had to move the OBD diagnostics connector a bit to the left to make space.
Bought a heater from E-bay for about £150 which includes a lever to adjust temperature. It'll fit nicely here and connect to the defrost vents as well as a possible four more for vents to passenger and driver. The outlet pipe from the engine goes via the temperature adjuster into the heater and then back to the engine. I'm considering lifting the battery up 2cm so the heater pipes can go straight from the engine under the battery and into the heater.
Console will cover up all this.
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