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Just thought if post a brief update of what has happened with my kit at over the last 18 months

 

I purchased the kit part built back in November 2011 from the dad of the owner of sliders guest house after staying there in the October. Day I collected it looked like this:

 

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it came with a 2.0 pinto installed and a box of bits, most of which have turned out to be not much use. The screen and wiper mechanism etc was removed and sold on and an aeroscreen bought to replace it.

 

The engine was then determined to be duff, and i realised i should concentrate on the more importnt bits first, so out it came and was replaced with a known good 1.6 pinto.

 

Old engine out

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New engine in

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Then after a bit of faffing about with the ignition timing, it lived! Link to video - http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/stumac1985/c438f366.mp4

 

 

Shortly after this I bolted the front end back on and "drove it" for the very first time. Link to video -

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attention then turned to wiring (thanks rich for his help with this) and the dash / centre console. I had a dash panel almost the right size and so set about making this up properly.

 

roughly how it looked to start with some bits sat in place

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the finished dash

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in place in the car, you can see the mess the wiring was in at the bottom of the picture

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the wiring has since been stripped back to only include the bits required but have left in things like wiper, washer and water wiring incase I ever decide to go back to a full screen. If by the time I decide to do a scratch built loom its still not got a full screen I wot be putting it back in.

 

 

 

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During this time I have been through just a few sets of seats...

 

Seats that came with the kit, hardly all them a seat and not IVA compliant

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The industrial carbon fibre seat, comfiest seat in the world, but didnt fit the car

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Westfield GRP seat, too big for the car!

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cobra clubman. Too small for me and a right fit in the car

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So it became obvious finding a bucket seat that fitted in the car and I fitted in would be impossible. That's when I found these

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they are cobra roadster 7's and fit me and the car perfectly, still to be fitted yet.

 

 

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more recently gaz made me some new headlight brackets (massive thanks due there) to replace the ones with the original clam shell wing supports and built in a bracket for my new front indicators

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I also manage to source some original Robin Hood cycle wing brackets (thanks again gaz) which I forgot to take a photo of before painting as fitting.

 

 

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This weekend was a bit of a reassembly time, mostly for my own motivation. So everything that could easily be bolted on was and got the car back to looking like this, please excuse the flat tyres, I took te photos while waiting for the compressor to be dropped round.

 

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that brings it pretty much up to date. I have missed loads out as there are so many little and dull jobs I could spend hours typing up what has been done. Still lots to do to but I am confident I can have it ready for IVA, including painting it, before the end of the year.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Quick update as I realised the previous post is missing due to the forum update. I started making a boot cover and inserts for the rear wings, went to finish them off tonight only to realise the piece of leatherette I had that was "just the right size" wasn't.

 

Quick picture of the bits that are done

 

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Then Sunday I got a bit of time in the garage and went about making and fitting my harness mount brace and fitted rear harness eyes

 

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I also acquired some new cycle wings from stoneleigh. They are wrap around type so cover a latge portion of the tire and i think will suit the finished car well. they required some adjustment as the holes in the sides of the wings were in the wrong place for my brackets, so set about repairing them. They will be painted in Renault black gold at a later date.

 

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I also spent some time preparing the interior ready for carpeting etc as the next jobs on the list are fitting the harness eyes and load spreaders for the lap straps and fitting the seat load spreaders, with those done its time to carpet! so That's me about up to date again. Will hopefully get some more done this weekend.

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Looking good so far, how do you plan to bring the harnesses to the required height for iva? My Exmo has them mounted to the back panel like yours but I have harness slots in my seats. Although mine doesn't need iva I'm still thinking of having a new roll bar with harness mounting made.

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I am hoping my seats will sit low enough for it not to be a problem, if they don't then I'm a bit scuppered.

 

The logical answer would be to weld a bar across the roll cage at the appropriate height and run the harnesses across it. This would make the roll cage a "structural" part and that opens a host of other problems as it is not really up to the job of a structural part and certainly would need mounts changing and strengthening.

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I think you will struggle to pass IVA. The late monocoques had a crossbar welded into the roll hoop to get the height needed. There was also concern that the rear boot edge was not strong enough for the harness. If you decide to weld in a cross bar then take the oportunity to weld a plate the the hoop legs so they bolt through the body sides for a better mount. See a late mono for ideas. Cant show a pic at the moment.

 

Nigel

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I know it's going to be close and will check properly once seats are mounted so can check measurements more accurately. If I haven't got the required height then I will have to reconsider my options, but that will involve as suggested redesigning te mounts for the roll bar and adding a cross bar to it for the harnesses to pass over to raise the effective anchorage point.

 

Edit to add: recent IVA passes of monos have done so using similar reinforcement to the rear mount point as I have used.

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Fitted the front harness mounts and started making up the seat mounts, trial fit of seat and harnesses and unfortunately I think long boarder is right, I'm about 20mm short on getting the rear harness mounts high enough!

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