slimyroadster

As you can see in the previous post, I changed my mind about the back panel. The way I'd done the tabs on the edges was only possible if...

The first couple of panels are done, admittedly they're the easy ones that just go on the top. The process was similar to the fl...

So here is the main aluminium panel, with all the pieces attached; As you can see, it was a bit tight to get all the panels on. There a...

Time to go off on a little tangent here. For a while now my welding has been a little 'rough', and as the saying goes 'a poor wo...

So now to move on to the other aluminium panels. This will be; 1. Seat back panel. 2. Transmission tunnel sides. 3. Car sides. 4. Trans...

One box of these later; And a whole load of hole drilling got me here; Then a load of cutting and finishing to get the edges match...

Time to start with my first build job... OK, I've been at it quite a while and done a fair bit to get to this point, but as I was prepar...

As they say, paint covers a multitude of sins. But it's air tight which was the main thing I was after. The red is just the standa...

Well, that took a long time!! Five months apparently since I started the tank. And now it's finished. There were a few issues. The swi...

I'm currently welding up my fuel tank. Whilst it's a little slow going due to available time, it's not really bringing up any is...

...And just like that, two months have gone by. I often thought I'd have more time to do stuff as I got older, turns out there's jus...

Well, the extenders have arrived, I reckon I spent all of five minutes before I had to try them on for size, and five minutes after fitting ...

Let's talk seats. Since the start of the build when I got my donor, I knew that I wanted to reuse the seats. They were from the V spec e...

OK, so lets talk track rod ends. When I was building my roadster, I knew that steering was a challenge. Lots of options had been explo...

Now I've got my HSR body (woohoo!) and my bike has been sold (boohoo!), I can finally get round to fitting the body and seeing what work...

The body has arrived; I didn't realise the kit came with a dashboard blank or aeroscreen, so that's an added bonus. I ...

The steering column is now in place, along with the 10 degrees of deflection required for IVA. Obviously this pic exaggerates the angle; ...

The steering rack is now in place and bolted up, and I have a problem... As part of the IVA regs the steering column needs to have a defle...

A while back I bought a vernier caliper from Aldi. It worked well, but the digital aspect of it was not designed for a garage, and died pret...

I had to post a picture of this, it's a remarkable piece of kit. It fits exactly as expected, and with bolt cutouts on both splines a...