Project Silver, PIC HEAVY

i did a bit last night, moved my diag port so it sits flush behind the alu panel and is accessible to the side of it, looks much better, also installed the first switch which is for the fog lights

not really much of a pic i didnt really want to take one yet as its not finished



you can just about see the diag port on the far side and the new switch.

think im going to turn it into a fake piece of CF again, because the sticker labels will show up nice on it also

applied finishing touches to this panel, there will be some more switches on here but you get the idea

cf film on the panel



switch and light mounted etc



wired in switch and light a bit better



tested light and fogs etc



bluetooth obd in place





stickered up

pollen filter removed, never been changed :lol:



was going to remove the housing aswell but figured it was a pointless exercise as the plastic housing would weigh no more then the plastic panel it would be replaced with and save messing about

Looking good really enjoyed reading this wishI had the balls to do it to mine

wired in my fan override switch tonight.

located main 12v feed to fan, green white wire



soldered a second feed into it




fed it back through the the fuse box and through the main wiring grommet




then into the car crimped on some terminals, this is the earth end and the second feed is for a 12v plug that im waiting to arrive



took the 12v from the main inigtion feed, and fed it back through the black plug so its totally hidden, its the brown wire if you can make it out anywhere



switch and light wired up, used green for rad warning



works perfectly




left like this for now as no point removing it all to drill when il be needing to remove it all in the next day or two to fit the 12v cigarette feed



also changed the fog lamp to orange rather then red

some bits and pieces arrived



but first i finished off the wiring for the kill the engine part of the kill switch

spliced into ignition to fuel/coil relay



ran that back via the kill switch, with the other bits in place, nice mess again



then drilled hole and fitted 12v plug and fan switch etc



the results







need to fit this at some point also

this is one sick project ! will this car be road legal ......dont think soo

yep, passed its mot about 2 weeks ago

done a little bit not much can be done until i get a few bits arrive

started prepping the dials

alu used for me to make brackets out of



oil pressure in mount



then took dials apart



smoothed some of the brackets and sticky out bits i dont need to neaten it up a bit



then dremelled off the lines





plan is to spray the white bits black, may even get it flocked yet will see how it looks

you pased the MOT with'it :shock: love the UK dreams dreams 4 me

haha yeah iv made sure everything i do is ok for mot (in uk of course)

Dash today,

started out by marking out the brackets i need to cut



cut them out



first bracket needed a bend in it, so marked where that needed to be



and formed a bend using a rubber mallet and a sharp corner edge



drilled 4 holes where the bracket mounts onto the dials



test bolted it on





removed steering column again



marked up four holes to be drilled





cleaned up swarf etc



then dropped four bolts with a drop of paint on each so i could rest the bracket in position and it would leave a mark where to drill the holes



drilled holes in the bracket, then went and sprayed the white plastic parts of the dials

after they had dried



wrapped the bracket in cf film to make it neater



bolted onto the dials properly, used some washers to spread the load a little on the relatively weaker plastic



reassembled dials



bolted in car, then i had to make up the front bracket to go here



marked and drilled holes



also wrapped in cf film



screwed on the car, dials are rock solid



finished pics





view of main bracket from outside the car



view through windscreen













all thats left to do tomorrow is fit the oil pressure gauge somewhere, either here



or here



i personally think the second option.

then tomorrow this dashboard removal will be complete apart from repsray the front half etc no point doing that until the cage is in though

Blue cage probs or silver, more likely blue, will do a shop when its in and decide

this dash removal project has finally finished, took me 3 weeks working on it most nights :|

last job left to do was fit this pressure gauge, found a better closer spot then the previous thought, but had to cut a bit of the seam out for it to fit, anyway routed cables up here



drilled two holes screwed in and how it sits




then it was time to give the car a good clean and wipe down inside, and final pics of the front which is how its going to remain until the cage is fitted then its going to get inside resprayed up the front







oh and a pic i was messing around with the panoramic settings on my phone



doesnt work quite that well that small

ScubaSteve said:

doesnt work quite that well that small

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Looks really good.... I like!

took the car out for a test run, also tested my obd feed you can see the inputs from that on this in car vid, shows speed, revs, throttle input and g force, and an outline of the route driven, if on track this would draw a nice outline of the circuit and my position

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVXWm32YF4[/youtube]

for some reason the revs feed seems to drop out every now and again not sure on that one atm

didnt really give it much because i would be stupid to put a vid in public showing my speed lol.

Car feels awesome though, so raw now, and just that dash removal seems to have made a noticable difference to the cars feeling

Didn't see this thread in ages..I come back and...wow! Nice work on the dash, it looks quite cool striped down, and not a bad look at all.

I think you were down to just under 800kg last time I read, how much does it weigh now? How much more do you think you can strip out?

just under 900 you mean lol, no idea will find out soon

Iv changed some settings to cure the sporadic revs problem, aswell as make everythinig generally more responsive, obd adaptive speed turned off and communication speed set to max

almost spot on now

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

That's much better mate :thumbs:

hi

so i drew some marks on the door



did some of this



some of this



and removed this



just need to tidy up the edges tomorrow



and apply some of this



i think i will end up putting a plastic panel on it though