Illuminating

Just a quick piccy showing the rear lights now mounted in the brackets and fitted to the car. The body work is not square and impossible to true up to the chassis, the holes in the body work are not symmetrical and i'm not so sure the chassis is straight and true, so lining everything up is horrible!! To make it fit the bodywork, the bare chassis looks terrible, but if you square it up to the chassis it looks shite from the outside!! So in an attempt to make it look OK, I ended up doing neither, so now it doesn't look quite right in any situation!!!!

It wasn't a very good night in the garage last night, Dad came over to lend a hand (again) as we are getting tight on time now, but it took him all night to reconnect the the front lights up due to various reasons (wires too short, GRP resin on bolts, crap connectors etc). Meanwhile i had to tidy the garage up a bit as i couldn't find any of my tools as they were all over the place, and then attack the no oil pressure issue after changing the oil and filter. Its a known issue that when you change the oil and filter you can get an air lock in the system, so you should always remove plugs and turn the engine over until you get pressure. If you can't get pressure you need to unscrew the filter slightly and turn it over again and release the lock. Now normally this is simple, but i had bought one of the K&N filters with the socket on the end so i could tighten the filter up easily and lockwire it in place, but unfortunately when i went to unscrew the filter, the socket rounded off. No matter how much i tried by hand or with a filter wrench it would not come off, so in the end had to knock a screwdriver through it and twist it off. I had got a spare filter that day as i knew this was probably going to be the outcome. With that sorted i turned the engine over and pressure resumed. I cut a hole for the fuel filler in the body work, but at the moment don't have any more filler hose to extend the cap above the body work, so there will be just a hole for this weekend I also removed the undertray as its too small now due to the cut out in the body work, and i want to make a nice flat undertray anyway in the future, and finally i cut and glued the very fine mesh (under 1mm holes) i had sourced for the side and rear vents on the bonnet.