Time for the last big piece of carpet - the rear bulkhead. This was carefully lined up and taped into place before sticking down in a number of sections:
Whilst waiting for the for the Evo-Stick to dry ready for bonding, I busied myself with investigating how to fit the seat runners. These need two areas of the seat bottom cutting out to accommodate the seat runner mechanisms:
Once cut out everything fits a treat (you will need to shorten the operating wire):
Just need to do the other seat now. Next up was to trial fit the leather trim panels:
The bulkhead panel is a tight fit and holds down the tunnel panel. However it needed a bit of modification to achieve this. As received the bulkhead panel fitted tight against the carpet and needed a few mm taken off the bottom to accommodate the tunnel panel underneath. This can be easily done by unsticking the leather and carefully removing a few mm off the bottom edge with the Dremel:
The bulkhead panel needs two "secret" fixings to fix it to the bulkhead. To do this mark out the carpet with tape in line with the centre of one of the quilts on the panel and on the tape mark the centres of the two fixings before drilling a small hole at each location:
Next offer the panel back into place and mark through from the boot:
Next take your Dremel (with the depth stop adjustment fitted!) and cut out two keyhole slots to take an M5 button head bolt:
To make the bolts easy to get into the bulkhead itself you can open up the holes in the bulkhead to, Say, M8 and use a repair washer on the back. I can't carry on with fixing these two panels as I need some stainless plate to make a couple of brackets and some stainless self tappers and cup washers. We'll come back to these panels in a few days.
Having come to a bit of halt with the leather panels I thought I would trial fit the handbrake:
Wired it up and the operation seems to be OK - need to fit the last piece of floor carpet and gaiter to finish.
Where does the weekend go? just left this afternoon for a tidy up. Once you get the carpet and leather in you can't help but get bits everwhere from drilling etc. So I tend to clean up every other day to keep on top of the mess!
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