16th & 17th of March 2004

Intake tubing taking shape and fitting of aero-screen wind deflector

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1. Intake tubing before I ground the weld beads down. They look ugly but it took me a days work to get to this point. The bends have to be very precise as there is a very tight space into which they have to fit.

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2. After grinding

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3. The finished items. Now all that's left is giving them a coat of paint so they won't rust.

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4. Aero-screen has arrived. I just taped the clear perspex part so I won't scratch it by mistake.

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5. First trial fit just to see what it looks like.

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6. Taped up the spots where the bolts would end up and made inital measurements and then put it on, marked up again and drilled the holes.

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7. First guess (the circle) wasn't too far off.

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8. Side holes were a right PITA to get to the right position, so unfortunately, one side looked like this. It won't show later on, but it hurts just to know it's there.

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9. Finished the holes, put some piping on the leading edge and screwed everything into place.

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10. Looks very nice.

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11. I like it. I wonder if there's anything I can put so I don't have to look into that space on top of the scuttle all the time?