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[Stot]

Originally Posted by ayjay

You have just reminded me that I need lock stops on my car. i may just fit jubilee clips for now
just as matter of interest it passed IVA with front cycle wings touching the headlamps at full lock. They checked it with me in the car and when I was asked to move the steering from lock to lock I suddenly remembered . I made it look as if it had reached the end of its lock and no one seemed any the wiser

I used jubilee clips on my last kit and they were fine for a while but disintegrated and left bits of metal all over the rack eventually. Theres a lot of force on the stops when you hit them.

One thing I did think was that I could have conceivably held these together by cutting a gland down the middle for a zip tie or even an o-ring rather than drilling and tapping for bolts. The force on them isn't trying to separate them, just crush them against the knuckle so a zip tie should hold them fine.

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Stot

[TheArf]

Ayjay, i'm sure we can sort something out similar to Stots' solutuion

Arfon

[Stot]

Got my chrome U trim today. Its not flexible at all along its length so I couldn't wrap it round the edges like rubber trim so I had to come up with another idea.

It comes in a coil wrapped sideways so I decided to trim one side off so that it was more like a J section that a U section. To do that nicely with an even cut all the way along I made a little jig out of some scrap MDF.





The profile was cut/filed into the MDF so that when put together the trim could pull through it. I used a piece of breakaway blade in the middle and clamped it all in a vice. Pull the trim through and voila, perfectly straight cut for the full length.

[Stot]

Super-glued it around my grilles and it looks the biz.




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Stot

[Stot]

Not fully screwed in but as good as I had hoped.



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Stot

[Stot]

Last part for the grille. To mount it I used some 8mm wiring grommets and turned some 5mm id 6mm od crush tubes to make bushed mountings.




Hoping to get at least the rear wings and lighting done this weekend.

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Stot

[Stot]

Originally Posted by Stot

Hoping to get at least the rear wings and lighting done this weekend.

Got both rear wings and the tub secured now so half way there.






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Stot

[Stot]

Originally Posted by Stot

Hoping to get at least the rear wings and lighting done this weekend.

Still need wiring but good progress this weekend. I even managed to first fit one of the front wings before I lost all the light.



I need to figure out how I'm going to solid them up now. Probably going to be a bracket that bolts on to the headlight brackets up front. Thats how Lotus did it soooo...

Still not sure about IVA for these.

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Stot

[davidimurray]

Have you checked them against the template in the IVA manual. They look like they might be a bit short on the front edge.

[Stot]

Yeah the 30 degrees bit is what would fail it, I cant get them any further forward.

I may ask someone to lend me some cycle wings for the test...... Anyone reading?..... Ill make you a bonnet badge....

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Stot