We decided after a little discussion to make some extra aluminium panels for the well sections connecting the inner wings inside the engine bay to the pedal box and footwells. Originally we had planned to leave these as a fibre glass finish. We had some extra aluminium sheet left over from the manufacture of the other heatshields so we thought this would really finish the engine bay off nicely. So as went about making simple templates from a couple old cornflakes box to get the shape and size of the 2 well sections. The offside proved a little trickier than the nearside as we had to negotiate the gap for the pedal box.

Marks cleverly had the idea to give ourselves enough overlap of metal to be able to fold the aluminium right over on its self on the edges which would give us a great finish. So this is exactly what we did.

We then used tin snips to cut the template out of the 1mm aluminium before using the metal folder to get the shape and the vice to fold the edges over getting a really neat finish. Then we finally fitting and riveting into place on the car.

I have to confess this was more Mark’s handy metal work than mine (in fact my first attempt was rubbish and we threw this away as a tester piece) but when Marks stepped in, his metal work skills got them both fitting beautifully. With a little polish, we both agreed that this little addition really added that little extra quality to the overall appearance of the engine bay and well worth our efforts. I hope you agree from the pictures.