Chris's new build of an MX5 based car

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by voucht

Hi Chris,

First, I think the car looks very good. Very red indeed, but it is not shocking to me, I really like it You're almost done, congratulations!

I fitted my rear arches this week-end too, and I was wondering: what kind of trim/piping did you use between the arches and the side panels/rear tube? I can see a black lining there on your pictures, and I often saw that on finished cars, but I don't know what it is, and I'd like to put some on my car too to seal this part.

Could you please let me know?

Thanks.

Hi Sylvian, Thanks for the comments. If you do an ebay search for "wing piping" there are some people shipping internationally. Or try this link it was cheaper for me than ebay.

http://caterhamparts.co.uk/product.php?id_product=2547

Originally Posted by skov

That is looking very red and very cool

Cheers John. Any sign of your new body work from Gillhams?

[skov]

Originally Posted by CTWV50

Cheers John. Any sign of your new body work from Gillhams?

No, not yet, but it's only been 11 weeks since I placed the order

[voucht]

Originally Posted by CTWV50

Hi Sylvian, Thanks for the comments. If you do an ebay search for "wing piping" there are some people shipping internationally. Or try this link it was cheaper for me than ebay.

http://caterhamparts.co.uk/product.php?id_product=2547



Cheers John. Any sign of your new body work from Gillhams?

OK, now that I see it, I understand better. I think I'm going to order some from Kitspares with other stuffs I need.
Thanks for the help

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Last night I dug out the Saturn/NTS/Gillham Aero thingumajig to see if it fit's, and it kind of does. There is a small gap but a bit of foam strip should do. Took loads of pictures which you can look at in my photo stream.



So if you can live with the gap this seems a good solution to the AGM body for an aero screen.

[Stot]

Looks virtually complete now. Nice.

Cheers
Stot

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Thanks, nearly there yes, but still lots to do! Now that some idiot has built a car in my garage I can only do stuff car related in the garage when it's sunny! Doh! Time for a car port! or a big tent! Aiming to be applying for the IVA around October time. Should be on the road for Christmas! Useful!!!

Bought a Dremel this week and did this with it.

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Some images of my front end before I button it up I've added more p-clips to the front brake pipe that travels around the front of the engine bay and decided not to run side repeaters on the cycle wings, they looked crap and now I've had to have one cycle wing repaired. I've managed to get three accessible fixings for the nose on either side as well.

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I also got to fixing the bottom of the nose but decided to make a fixing plate come skid plate to protect the nose incase I hit an awkward camber or something. Roads around here can be quite shocking.



Also started fixing the lower part of the side panels.

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So I'm spitting my dummy out about this side repeater nonsense. The IVA manual needs rewriting here as it's fairly ambiguous, but aparently they should be able to be seen between 5˚ and 60˚ from the direction of travel from the rear but also vertically between 5˚ below and 15˚ above. All of this isn't really a problem apart from the 5˚ below which in a car as low as ours is damn right dumb and causes a problem due to the rear wing unless your happy to fit a side repeater to your front or rear arch.

Whomever needs to see my side repeater from 5˚ below a car no higher than 750mm is a dead man as he's almost lying on the floor in the middle of the road. Unless we now have to take into consideration dogs and toddlers.

But anyway I think I found a suitable yet unusual position. Call me mad but you can see the corner of the scuttle/dash from this viewpoint.

5˚ out and below


Proposed position


60˚ out


If anyone knows of any reason why this is a nono location please let me know.

[Ste W]

I would be fitting a more bulbous side repeater onto the side of the scuttle panel rather than at the rear. Obviously can be changed in the future.

something like this



will look better in the long run and will fulfill the iva requirements