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[Stot]

Originally Posted by K4KEV

ah beat me to it.

Ha, sorry Kev.

Not sure it will be wide enough to make rear arches, its probably only ~8" wide but as a bonus it does come with trim all the way round it! I may even need to IVA it on the 165 14" Mazda wheels if its only 7.5" wide.

Even new they are ~£60 which for a pair of stainless steel arches still sounds a good deal.

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Stot

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I have been fitting the LEDS to my dash recently. All of them worked well except the brake warning/handbrake light. It wouldn't go out when the handbrake was down, but a bulb would. I figured out it must have been the resistance across the bulb was causing a further drop of power that the LED wasn't creating so I added the bulb in parallel with the LED and the LED then goes of as expected.




I spoke to Skov about putting a resistor in there to create the resistance needed in place of the bulb but it worked out I would need one or two of those ruddy great big rectangular ones like you put in the indicator circuit when using LED bulbs so I covered the bulb with a bolt cover so it doesn't illuminate behind the dash and ill just leave that in there!

While messing around with the dash it turns out that the epoxy I used to hold my 'glass' to the bezels wasn't sticking to either the glass OR the bezels and they all fell apart so I had to come up with another solution.

I decided to try and hot glue them. Started off by keying the edges of the perspex discs and dabbing hot glue around the edges.



I keyed the inside of the bezel a little too and laid them down in position on some grease proof paper on a flat surface.

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Then I got out a hair dryer and melted the glue and pressed the bezel into position.




This left some glue that squeezed out as you can see but some white spirit and a good rubbing action and you can get rid of the excess inside and out..




Seems a lot more solid than the epoxy versions and being hot melt glue it has just the smallest amount of give so should hold up to any vibration or flexing.

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Stot

[Stot]

Made the first wing stay today. I had some 20x20 left over and as they are temporary I made them out of that.






For a temporary solution its pretty good. If you bought a new 4x4 ring and took your time this could make some nice wheel arches. These ones are 9.5" wide but you can buy them in different sizes but for £16.50 for the pair I couldn't go wrong.

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Stot

[rdodger]

Loving the dash!

Are the warning lights ok like that for IVA? For some reason I thought the legend had to be on the light not next to it?

[Stot]

Should be fine. It just needs to be clear what the warning lights are but the logos don't need to be on the tell tale.

Where provided Identification of Controls, Tell-tales and Indicators;
1. Must be clear so not to cause confusion.
2. Must be on or as close to the controls, tell-tales and indicators as possible as not to cause confusion.
3. Must stand out clearly from the background.

So as long as black on red satisfies 3 I Should be OK. Ill have some stickers with me just in case.

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Stot

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Right I have been quiet long enough.

I have been procrastinating because of rain and the fact it took me 6 weeks to get my proof of age letter from Mazda...

I have a trailer now for the car so I can take it to the IVA and to carparks for some testing.



Weekend just passed was the first sunny weekend without rain round my way so I managed to get the car out for a bit of work. I managed to spend more time getting the electric winch on the trailer working, even though I dont even need it!

Changed the front brake discs because I had a pulsing when braking and that is now gone. I left the old brake pads in because I remember someone advising that their IVA man suggested using old pads over new pads for the test as they will have better bite that unbedded new pads.

I have the car on the trailer in the garage again for now.



Things I think I have left to do.

Finish fitting the flyscreen.
Paint and cover steering rack extensions.
Paint the wing brackets.
Get the headlights/dashboard illumination working together.
Fit interior carpets/sides.
Fit both sets of harnesses.
Refit the dash.
Replace a broken bonnet strap.
Replace all fluids.
Double Check and tighten all bolts.
Apply for IVA.

Not too much really if the sun will come out and play!

Cheers
Stot