Sunday, 13 April 2008

Preparing for Body Fitting - 1

Time to cut a big hole in the body!! This one is for the gearshift. If you are going to buy only one new tool for the body - make sure it is a dremel with all the attachments. The radius gauge and a saw bit made short work of this job..... very neat edges too.

The next job was to sand down and paint the lower sills matt black to disguise them - one of the downfalls of deviating from the common colour choice of black!
In between coats I fixed the various strips of chassis foam:
Contrary to popular belief you do not need any on the diff carrier as it is further away from the body than the tunnel top sheet. But you do need to remember to stick two strips on the boot support bracket:With one lower sill painted I was quite pleased with the results - although it might look a bit odd at the minute is should look OK once the body is 4 inches of the ground and not 4 feet!

Just need to do the other one now.

2 Comments:

Unknown said...

Exciting stuff!

A slight feeling of jealousy creeps up, me being still at the donor part unstucking phase.

Are you still aiming to finish pre-IVA?

STR said...

That's the plan Marcel - hoping for SVA Test in early Jan.