slimyroadster

  After a lot of messing about, I finally have tall enough seats... unfortunately it would appear I took no photos of the extensions! Ah wel...

 I'm really happy with the seat wadding; It's made a really smooth squishy surface just ready for the leatherette. It glued on to th...

 First, a problem... Yes, despite me having far more space than a regular Haynes roadster, the air filter doesn't fit. I noticed it afte...

 Since the last post I seem to have done very little. To be fair, it's been absolutely freezing in the garage, and the clocks going back...

 So after last weeks debacle, things worked better. For reference, this is what the brushed on glue looked like; It makes me cringe just loo...

 I really am not on a good streak at the moment, so this is a bit of a rant. Partly over the poor quality of products nowadays, partly over ...

 Again, more of an 'aide memoire' than any actual decent blog post. I've done most of the wiring loom, I just have four white/re...

 One more post about the fuel filler, just for my own memory to be honest. The fuel filler neck arrived; And thankfully it was a usable size...

 I'm sure I'm missing a few photos, but here's what happened... Firstly I modelled a gas cap neck end in Onshape and printed it ...

 It was all going quite well so I was bound to trip up on something. The plan for the fuel filler neck was to weld a plate to the end of a t...

 First an update on the tank. It was another miserable welding job, I hate working on metal that thin. Loads of pinprick holes that needed r...

 There is one last bit of dashboard work that I need to do, and that's switches. Most of the switches are dealt with by the column stalk...

 At the last car show in Newark, I bought myself a short length of fuel filler hose, just to finish off that particular job. Shouldn't b...