Project Silver, PIC HEAVY

[ScubaSteve]

both done, to be bonded in monday

 

[yippeekiay]

what like the outline of a penis?

Well not quite, unless your into having a penis on your car but you know what I mean

 

[PumaJay]

very nice, look very professional!

 

[ScubaSteve]

A few parts that i have accumulated to do these windows plus other stuff

from left to right

pack of m4 x 35mm allen key bolts

pack of m4 serrated back lock nuts

pack of m5 serrated back lock nuts

2 x 12mm grommets to blank off the elec window switches

5mm and 10mm grommets for the aerial holes

sikaflew to bond in the rear windows which i think im doing myself now

 

[ScubaSteve]

Carrying on with these windows, got my rear bonded in still drying

better pics when i can remove the tape and clean them up etc

so heres how i went about fixing in the front windows, drilled a hole through the outer skin, through the lexan and through the inner skin

then a bolt goes all the way through with two nuts on it, the first nut allow me to adjust the lexan against the weather strip the second just holds it all firmly in place

then to make the weatherstrip fit over the bolts i cut pieces out of the rear part

fits nice

drilled rivets out of motor/regulators

removed them both, nice bit of weight saved there

will get some better pics of the windows as a whole later when i can remove that tape

 

[ScubaSteve]

grometted the aerial holes

 

[ScubaSteve]

ok heres some finished pics

 

[Anonymous]

Looking really good!

Watching this with interest!! :lol:

 

[Reechard]

That looks awesome steve!

 

[yippeekiay]

What I like is that from a quick glance it still looks standard apart from the wheels. Hope your not going to festoon it with stickers/numbers etc k:

 

[Reechard]

Oh and steve you coming to combe in April?? Should get this on track!

 

[ScubaSteve]

yeah i should be there

 

[Reechard]

Sweet! will have to come have a look over the car. You got a stand to go on?

 

[ScubaSteve]

Couple of updates

Bought some sticky back neoprene rubber sponge weather strips, 2mm thick roll and 3mm thick roll

the 3mm stuff i put to line the edge of the rear windows where the door meets it, originally there was a rubber seal there on the OEM glass

then when the door shuts it creates a seal

then used the 2mm stuff to seal the slider

took the slider off and went roudn the relevant edges with it

slider back in

opens

I dont think its still 100% water proof but it should seal it at least from the wind and creates a much nicer tactile feel to the sliding motion

 

[ScubaSteve]

Heres a quick vid of in car as a few people wanted to hear what it was like inside

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoTMSDD914A[/youtube]

 

[ScubaSteve]

started stripping some of the loom that i know longer need done the bits going to the doors today and my electric window switches

snipped the plugs off

then pulled all the loom back through the rubbet grommet, need to sort the stuff that goes behind the dash properly when i remove the dash

removed the redundant elec window swithces

blanking gormmets over the holes

bits of loom i removed

 

[red]

Heavy?

 

[ScubaSteve]

not really, most of the weight will be with all the loom behind the dash imo, was mainly just to tidy things up

 

[PumaNoob]

Id like to race you steve when im done, your car looks like it accelerates pretty damn quick, mine should have more power (hopefully), but yours will be a hell of a lot lighter and nimbler around corners, with no turbo lag. Are you planning on any 1/4 mile days out, or is it going to just be for the bendy stuff?? Exhaust sounds pretty good in the vid too.

 

[ScubaSteve]

lol no probs

its not really for 1/4 mile stuff but id be willing to give it a stab out of curiosity over what sort of times it gets

i think the thing that made a fair bit of diff apart from weight of course was the short ratio box it goes through the gears really quick