28th of October 2003

Mould for making seat is almost complete. Just one more hour of sanding. Mounted front brakes and handbrake lever. Purchased stainless braided hose for hydraulic clutch system but can't mount it all because I'm missing a gearbox input axle seal.

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Went and bought some braided hose for the clutch tubing. This on the picture is the remote bleed nipple, consisting of a blank-off end that just screws into the connector. Open to bleed, close it after. More pics of these when I start to intall them.

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This is the clutch slave cylinder, sitting on it's billet aluminium adapter. Looks pretty nice I think.

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Freeze plug goes in there. Camera really doesn't hide any dirt at all ;) But I can't clean it more than this without taking it apart and having it sand blasted, which is next years project.

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Here's the mould for the seat. This is a negative mould and the real seat is made inside this. It needs hours of sanding to get the perfect surface. Unfortunately some accidents happened while removing the plug, so we had to "fix" things at this stage, in the mould, which you can see because the ligher colour is the filler material.

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Here's a close-up of the surface. All those small scratches can be seen, but not felt. Surface feels really smooth, but needs to be sanded with maybe 1200 grit paper to get it perfectly smooth.

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Mounted front brakes.

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Looks nice. Let's hope it has loads of stopping power also.

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Here's the bracket that I have spent months waiting for. In the end I just gave the design to a nearby mechanical workshop who cut them out for me. Next iteration of the design would definitely be better, but this will work just fine. BTW, the nuts are not the finalised ones as they are not self-locking and the other bolts there need a washer. The car isn't near the road now anyway and I will fix that before it hits it, just want them mounted and "finished" (almost).

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Here's a top view of the adapter.

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Mounted hand-brake lever also.

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Here's how I connected the handbrake to the moon-shaped cable adjuster. It's just an aluminium tube that I crushed the ends and drilled holes through. Wall thickness was 2mm, so with 4mm of aluminium - I dare say it is strong enough.