DaveStruve Build Log

[StruveD]

Originally Posted by K4KEV

That's all coming together rather nicely ....those harness's look pretty mean.
I had a similar problem with my seat so I put them on their side and knelt a little bit on their sides until they gave 1/4" or so which was just enough to stop them sticking on the tunnel and outer cockpit frame, looks like yours might give a little in the same place.

The slider seat bracket was really the only issue. The seats cleared fine. but the bracket had 0 tolerance. Had to go back and drill out a number of rivets on the tunnel and replace with flush mount rivets. Once I did that I could just fit them.

[AshG]

looks like your getting there. the first drive video was excellent, what do you think the local police reaction would have been if they had seen it unregistered on the street? in the uk it would equate to a lot of trouble.

i wish i could bring my car out next time im over in Atlanta, there are some excellent roads that need to be driven in a fun car not too far away from your place.

[StruveD]

Originally Posted by AshG

looks like your getting there. the first drive video was excellent, what do you think the local police reaction would have been if they had seen it unregistered on the street? in the uk it would equate to a lot of trouble.

i wish i could bring my car out next time im over in Atlanta, there are some excellent roads that need to be driven in a fun car not too far away from your place.

Within my neighborhood it would an awkward conversation, but that would probably be all. Since there is no real inspection, how else are you supposed to make sure everything is working correctly.

Worse case I would be ticketed. I'd have to really piss off the cop to get any worse than that.

Don't know if I told you about this. But there is the Tail of the Dragon a few hours from here, which is pretty amazing.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/pdf/Brochure.pdf

Next time your in town, it might be worth a road trip.

[StruveD]

Welp missed a week of building last week. The time finally came to pay up my end of the car bargain to my wife. This meant it was time to remodel our kitchen. I put it off as long as possible, but as soon as the tax refund hit the account my wife made me move.

Anyways back to the car. After putting the belts in I realized, if I was going to do a arm rest I would have to do it prior to skinning the sides of the car. So that is where I started this week. While I had the tools out for the kitchen I cut the center console in mdf. Once the pice was cut I router a .5" radius on the edge to match the thickness of the wood. This again was done for comfort and the fact the seats wouldn't fit otherwise.





I had to do it in 3 pieces due to the tight fit and the change in angle of the tunnel. The rear piece had to be totally separate because of the seats fit, otherwise there would be no way of installing it. The middle and front portions were fiberglassed back together so that it held the correct angle and could be one piece. Once that was done I found a Tandy leather store and picked up a hide of black suede.

Here's the final product:



Last thing left is put a shift boot on it. I ordered one off of ebay and if it matches color wise I'll use it. Other wise I'll have to make my own.

[TheArf]

That is looking well tidy, had a look at the link too and the devils triangle looks a lot of fun

Arfon

[flyerncle]

Looks a bit like the road up Palomar Mountain in So Cal.

[TheArf]

Or the horseshoe pass and LLanberis pass in gods chosen land.

Arfon