Indicators, horns, wiring and interior lighting
More small jobs sorted today while waiting for an SVA date: Indicators installed so that they comply with SVA regs: Installed new horns as the ones from the donor died:...
Steering Wheel
A bit of a dilema! The steering wheel. The E30 wheel would pass SVA just fine, however the steering column is at a very shallow angle therefore it probably wont...
Interior work, max and some nearly ready pictures!
The sets of pics today: Interior: Gear gaitor now completed properly. Handbrake gaiter, this has the original E30 rubber cover (top part of rubber only) underneath so there''s nothing sharp...
Gaiters and panels
Hand brake gaiter installed, this was an eBay item made from leather, much nicer than the one that comes with the kit! Do have a nice handbrake handle but it...
Hose, brakes and interior panels
First off some construction pictures, added some new silcon hoses specificially made for the M20: SVA safe brake line attachment, thanks to folks on madabout kitcars for this tip! And...
Interior Design
Firstly here are some pictures of the underside of the boot floor. All these pieces interlock and leave gaps for cables, screws, brackets etc. The birch ply will be given...
Elephant ears and boot floor
Boot floor - need to see if we can find some under construction photos. This was a lot more work that it looks from the pictures! There is a wooden...
Dash & Nose Cone
As promised here are a some better pictures of the dashboard taken in the light: And some better pictures of the heater speed control: And the back of the dashboard...
Dashboard
It was a busy day today, we installed the glove box lock and then proceeded to start covering the dash! Its now very late so better pictures to come tomorrow...
Driver seat
And then there was two! Driver side seat fitting, it was much easier second time through. However the second seat needed to line up the same as the first seat,...
Passenger seat
After many hours of measuring, cutting, getting it wrong and making the holes bigger these steel square bars now fit! Only realising half way that the runners on the seat...
Floors
Step 1 - measure out and drill 40 holes in one floor Step 2 - drill 40 holes in the the floor of the other side. Step 3 - drill...
Glove box
Small amount of progress with the glove box:
Glovebox
Another small step forwards - a hole cut in the dash for the glove box. The fuse box will sit in the back of here.
Bonnet Catches and Centre Console
After nearly a whole measuring the bonnet catches are now install. They really finish the car of nicely. Spent a few hours day creating a centre console out of the...
Dash Trim
New dashboard? Not quite... ...nope the, the vinyl covered sponge for the dash is completely the wrong shape. It was the wrong shape before stretching the dash and after it...
meh
Missed the opening times of metal supermarket and hampshire hose due to silly traffic on the M3. Anyway spent a little time finishing off bolting the tub up to the...
Tank, and more small things
Yesterday we did some work on the dash and bought some square steel tube to use as seat frame mounts. Today we fixed the tank which we found another leak...
Gauge Wiring
The final gauge wiring is now complete, everything has been connected. The dash lights on, at the moment the rpm & speedo lights turn on with the ignition, the light...
Thar be ‘oles in that dash!
Gauges! Hole cut and the gauges are resting in there - looks really good :D Our dad had an adjustable bit for his lathe he made many years ago which...
Dash
Time has come to spend hours and hours debating where to put the gauges! After many, many permutations using prints outs and bluetak here's the results: Dash masked and all...