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I'm back after a few busy days....so as i said i did repaint the front calipers, and fit them back...    I made a new shield for the fiberglass body...     The owner asked me to fit mud flaps on the front wings,cause he had a stone in his face from the tyre when he drove the car....  And i made a gear gaiter for him as well,cause it was just a big hole on the center console...  The last job....i made brackets to fix the aluminium sheet in the boot,cause it was noise when he drove it....
I've done everything what he wanted me to do,so the time is here to give it back to the owner and he can enjoy it....
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As i said in the previous post,i started to work on the shield which is around the exhaust pipes on the body...it has had a shield on it ,made from aluminium,but it wasn't so nice...(i think)...i made a new one from stainless... 
Lets fit it... 
The rocker cover is ready to fit back,so let see how it looks...this is the crown of the engine now....:) 
take a quick look how it was before: 
I don't know what you think,but in my opinion its a bit better...(not just because i've done it).... :)
Next step: repaint the front brake calipers....i'll continue with that soon.... Carried on the work on the heat shield...i haven't got special tools (yet) for roll or fold the sheet metal or the perforated sheet,so what u can see is all handmade by me,i used only some different metal pieces,the vice,the hammer,the mig welder and the angle grinder to make it as u can see.... 
After hours and hours and hours of metal work the painting time has arrived....first i sandblasted the unit,and then sprayed it with primer,and finally sprayed it red.. 
Left it to dry for a few hours,and fixed it on the exhaust.... 
Next job is to make a heat shield for the fiberglass body where the exhaust pipes comes trough....
Continue soon..... When i finished the work on the wiring loom,i made a few new brackets to hold the nose on the chassis straight and proper........ before: 
after: 
After all i removed the old paint from the rocker cover,and repainted it....left it to dry and started to make some fittings to fix the gauges in the dash(all of them were loose)...and the dipstick needed some work as well...made a bracket for that,welded it on then paint it,and fit it.... 
At the end of the day i started to think how can i make a heat shield around the exhaust....i had a couple of ideas..lets start work on it... 
Continue soon..... :)
I'm back...I carried on to sort out the wiring loom, cut it to a right size, reseal it, fit new terminals on, solder them, fit plastic connectors (some of them waterproof), fix the loom to the chassis with clips.... 
Sealed connectors for wing indicators... 
On the nose of the car it has indicators,to connect the wiring for them was a bit tricky,so i started to work on it ,to make easier to connect and disconnect them in the case to take the nose off.... 
I did work a bit on the shape of the nose as well.... 
Continue soon.....
I haven't done too many things today,cause i was busy with other things..i did work a bit on the wiring loom,cause as i mentioned it before is a bit messy and not looking good...the previously used isolation tape started to come off...usually i'm using a different kind of tape to do it...this is sticking on it better,and to me is looking better as well...i cut off the terminals from the end of the wires and i'll put a new on them (solder them on).... Some "before" pics: 
Continue soon...
 Few things from the list: oil leaks,antifreeze leaks,radiator + fan not properly fitted,alternator faulty,wiring loom a bit messy,gauges moving in dash,pipes of coolant system also messy,dipstick fall out,..... Firstly i started with the radiator and the fan....the fan was fixed on the rad with big cable tie :( and the rad sat on 2 big brackets on the chassis and another bracket tried hold it on the top.... Removed all of them and i made 3 brackets for the fan.and another 3 for the rad....some work with a soldering kit and they are fixed....pics shows how they look like.... 
 this pic shows how the fan was fitted before.... After all, i cut the brackets from the chassis,and made some new ones...2 for the bottom,1 for the top.... 
I also made some brackets to organize the water pipes,ignition leads ets around the rocker cover.... Before 
After 
Continue soon
Day 1 Today i started to work on a kit car...i met with the owner last weekend near my house,he had a problem with his new hobby,cause the engine doesn`t wanted to start with flat battery....i was on my way to buy something,and seen him and his mate to push the car on the road try to fire it up...i joined to them to give it a push....after a few meter the engine started run...they said :"cheers mate!" and i just walked a way saying :"no problem!" Couple of hours later,when they came back from a road test i've met them again...i had a word with them,and the owner explained what happened...it was a bit overheated,battery flat,no start again... I told him i'm a mechanic,and i can check a few things on it,investigate what's going on,if he want me to do it...he said,yes do it...this is where the project began... When it is arrived to my garage i started check it around,and i found a few things wrong...i rang the owner,told him what is the situation,he said get everything right!....I will do!    |
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