Project JetBLICK by JetBLICK

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Ok... so, its been a while, but i've finished uni now and i've been back for a week, so heres what i've been up to

I started again with the dash, realising that it was going to take a while to adapt the first attempt to suit my new idea of bringing the dash forward. Didnt have too much luck with the foam last time so this time i used wood to make the mould. It worked much better and the dash has come along quickly with good results Also i decided to kinda mould the centre clocks in... its kinda hard to describe, so you'll just ave to wait and see .......

...hummmm run out of attachment space....

u sound like my mother, always worried about the practicalitys Well no they dont.... just, lol, tho i re-positioned the handles so that they are horizontal, if you get what i mean? rather than being vertical.

Riiiiite, this last week i've also, fitted the headlining - that was a PITA job i never want to do again! its not perfect i'll be honest, but i did fit it with 3/4 of the rollcage still in, and since i took the photos it has tensioned up a bit more and some of the wobbles have come out.

Also finished the rear of the car.. so the rear wiring loom was done, rear passenger arch went back on, the fuel tanks back in, boot back on and the hole was drilled for the reverse light. Only problem is i do not know what size the nut is that is on the reverse lamp, the reason i got it cheap was because the nut was missing... i'm starting to find out why Anybody know what size the nut is?

The front is also back on, with new straps, lower securing pins and the contact lenses I've also decided that the hydraulic rams are going to be comming off in place of a normal bonnet stay, the reason being; the struts are bending the front when they where compressed, also those struts just make it a PITA to line up the front with the pins when your lowering it.

Every single wire is being replaced in the car, and all the looms are pretty much complete, all thats left to do is wire teh alarm into the dashboard harness. I've re-done this loom so that it is now idiot proof, and dead simple should anything go wrong. Theres a loom for the back, a loom for the dashboard, a loom for the engine and a loom for all the lights on the flappy front. The two front looms have connectors at the bulkhead, so things can be taken apart quickly, and every system in the car has its own separate fuse, i.e. a fuse for the indicators, a fuse for fuel pump, a fuse for sidelights... etc etc

Ermmmm.. thats all for now... hopefully the car should be back on the road near the end of this week... some bits will be left unfinished, because the main priority is to get the car back on the road so that i can get back to work, earn money, and finish all the little bits that need doing still.

Ta, Dan

6-13-2007

yea it was a year ago.... nearly... it was only the outside really tho. He did do a quick job on the inside, boot and bulkhead tho just to neaten it up at the time, but i like my white 'bay now and boot now, you really can notice how much easier it is to see stuff in a white engine bay rather than a dark one.

As for the wiring... hehe... its easy, you just gotta be careful not to overlook anything, otherwise u'll end up ripping it all out again to re-do it - thankfully *touch wood* i havnt had to do that yet.

As for progress, well, the wirings getting there, the driver side switch pannel is complete, and the alarm has been wired in. I'll be up early 2mos hopefully to try and get the passenger side done, only problem is i keep running out of connectors which is annoying. But on the up side i gots loads of switches, 15 to be precise which look reeeeeelly cool... kinda like a fighter jet - 'cept without the cheesy 'doomsday flip cap'

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