building an Exocet kit car - lockdown 1 project creeps into lockdown 2

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It would appear that my mot is due today - better get this thing finished

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[paulplom]

Have you decided on a body colour?

[AutoshiteBoy]

that's taken about two months so far

time to hire a van and 'go shopping'

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They're a good outfit. I used to go on technical training days away with them and still use their vans.

[BenHar]

Have you decided on a body colour?

Body?

Ben

[paulplom]

Well, nose cone, mud guards and stuff.

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ah, these bits ?

I thought you'd seen them already

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handsome beast, no ?

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hopefully will look better on the car (and not covered in a thick layer of dust)

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a couple of jobs ticked off the list yesterday

the accelerator pedal is mounted on a bracket that sits about an inch off the firewall and has tends to flex when you are going full beans - it is not unusual for the metal to fatigue and crack there so time for a bodge

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three handy spacers and an m6 bolt later and it's solid as a rock

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then it was back to that sodding wiring

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worryingly, this took over an hour to do

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then another coat of piss weak paint on those callipers

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when I collected the kit, the mirrors were stuck on a slow boat from china - they arrived last week and are sitting near the top of the to-do pile

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these serve as the primary front indicators, apparently ok for the iva

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and these are side repeaters - neat but I may fit something a bit bigger / brighter

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[paulplom]

Fancy!

[Scruffy Bodger]

Bulkhead thank you very much. We have enough keeping on top of SiC with his Americanisms, windshields etc Unless you're PhilA or Broccoli etc