5th December 2011 – Engine Bay
Once we had got the body back on it was really late into the evening, but these are some pictures taken the next morning in proper daylight. We are delighted to finally have [...]
3rd December 2011 – Fitting Inner wing heatshields
We fitted the remaining side panels heatshield next, which would also neatly fit over the top of the new well section panels. As we had with the other panels we used a metal [...]
3rd December 2011 – Engine bay – extra metal panels
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 [...]
29th October 2011 – Fitting Heat shields
We started fitting the heat shields today. We started with the bulk head panel, carefully positioning before marking up the holes, drilling and finally riveting into place. We used 4.8mm diameter rivets. The [...]
15th October 2011 – CAD heatshields production – Part 3
After the final computer drawings were complete, Dale sent them through to Mark to do final full size print outs to double check they all fitted perfectly. We had to make a small [...]
15th October 2011 – CAD HeatShield modifications – Part 2
As mentioned in the previous post, having seen Andy Gordons FIA Cobra at Silverstone, one thing we really liked with his car was the way he had fitted the metal cladding in the [...]
15th October 2011 – CAD HeatShield production – Slipstream Design – Part1
The metal cladding heatshields for the engine bay is something we've been working on for some time. Fortunately we have brother in law Phil Wilson who has an engineering, design and CAD (computer [...]