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Post by wishful4444 on Dec 31, 2020 14:16:53 GMT
Good day perthwa
By how many degrees do the 'sheep on the ceiling' reduce the temperature by?
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Post by perthwa on Jan 3, 2021 11:41:32 GMT
maximum inside today and yesterday was 32 degrees. I will see over the next few days as 36, 37, 38, 39, 39 is coming and the temperature in the shed during the day was well into the 40s on these days.
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Post by perthwa on Jan 3, 2021 11:50:04 GMT
Update on build... A friend building his Factor five 818 came over for a chat and to compare builds... He spotted some leather on a throw away lounge... I got bored and decided to cover my airbag replacement thing I made 2 years ago... Here is version 1... yet to be glued or attached properly. I will also probably stain it black... Hand stitched so I am just looking at the result... cost zero so far... Then I thought that I would do a centre console CAD as I have seat out because I was doing the side wall panels. In the photo above you can JUST see the green seat adjuster lever. I bent all four of these towards the seat as there was NO clearance between the console and the lever. NOW 2 hours later, I have room for my fingers and the centre console. Not sure about the Dash section... not sure what gauges etc and switches... So still playing with fitting of the side walls. Then I attached the fuel tank cover and decided that I needed to put some rubber fittings around the outlet... This is a work in progress. Made a decision about the dashboard connector to the centre console. I will make it about 12cm wide almost the same as the gear shift end of the console. I will make an rectangular box upright section connecting the dash to the floor and then connect the centre console to the box section. I test fitted the headlight switch and it will fit just in front of the gear lever and allow reasonable access. I have not quite made up my mind about what to build it out of... Maybe 1.2 mm steel for the two long sides and then rivet the centre section to the two sides. As I will probably cover it with leather it will not really matter... was also considering Aluminium but only have 3mm bits at home and ... that is probably overkill.
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Post by wishful4444 on Jan 4, 2021 15:36:53 GMT
"well into the 40s"
That's warm......
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Post by perthwa on Jan 7, 2021 8:05:38 GMT
From CAD to steel... Here is the almost constructed centre consol. Even started on the shiny Aluminium trim to hold the boots in place. Now to clean up a few things, make the actual unit fit in the car, fit the upright section to the dash and the floor brace, then cover it in foam and leather, then fit the boots.... and then go back to the 'door cards' where I was a week ago!. Oh, I had better test fit the seats...again. then run the handbrake wiring and the brake cables. p.s. this unit is 10 cm across at the dash end and tapers down to about 8.5 cm at the handbrake unit. It also leans just a bit to the North East as the handbrake unit needed some clearance when I installed it... It is marginal but there are some keen eyes out there.. I am also about to cut a nice hole for the light control switch that is going to sit in front of the shifter. Still reachable from the sitting position in the car and will fill up the space quite nicely. Show you that as soon as I venture into the shed today... well tonight as it is already 4.20pm... Whoops... Put in the driver's seat and the console collided... so I gave it a 2.5 cm reduction.. another 2 1/2 hours... Now there is a clearance and the seat will slide. I figure that I had better test the passenger seat. Now, about the weather...Please do not get me wrong... I am not complaining about it being hot in Western Australia... It is just about being in a metal shed with no insulation that was the issue. I happily worked in there this afternoon with a ceiling fan above me at 36 degrees and it was even pleasant! I moved the thermometer around the room and the afternoon sun was shining on the double set of metal doors and it was 43 degrees on the inside of the doors. I put the thermometer between the insulation and the roof metal and it was 45 degrees. at 4.30pm... Today's maximum was close to 38... see how we go on the 41 expected maximum tomorrow. Hope that explains a few things... Back to building a car!. I hate it when I do all the right things and miss it by a mile. TEST PASSENGER SEAT: The bl--dy left hand seat hits the console as well... so much for CAD! So now it looks even more butchered... But there is also some clearance on the left hand side. Must actually bolt the seats in place and triple check... At least the curved section is a bit more symmetrical... and here it is with the almost shiny trim.. Now I also need to fix it in place so that it can not move around and check all those clearances. and make sure I can access cables etc...
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Post by wishful4444 on Jan 7, 2021 17:12:24 GMT
Good day perthwa
Just a thought. Will the clearance between console and seats be sufficient after you have covered the console with foam and leather?
Could do with some of your heat in the UK. I want to do some work on my Sonic but no heat in garage so it will have to wait until the spring/summer.
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Post by perthwa on Jan 8, 2021 7:41:39 GMT
Good day perthwa Just a thought. Will the clearance between console and seats be sufficient after you have covered the console with foam and leather? Could do with some of your heat in the UK. I want to do some work on my Sonic but no heat in garage so it will have to wait until the spring/summer. I will be testing that theory soon. I have made it a lot skinnier than originally planned. foam will be 1mm stuff if I use it. The issue will be to cover up the rivets and hope they do not show through. Good point though!. Leather I have is reasonably robust, so I will have a play. BW
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Post by wishful4444 on Jan 8, 2021 15:02:17 GMT
If the rivets do show through maybe some narrow adhesive foam to cover the rivets only. eg draught excluder.
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Post by perthwa on Jan 10, 2021 5:43:16 GMT
Thanks for the idea Wishful4444... I just covered the whole thing in leather and yes the rivets do show through so that can be a talking point... If anyone notices, whilst hanging on for dear life! and another shot.. Now, I am just covering the dashboard upright in leather also and then i will see how things fit together. Getting there... p.s. I intend to stain the leather black...
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Post by perthwa on Jan 10, 2021 6:55:17 GMT
Added leather to the upright: a bit crooked but... This is not a show car, its a daily driver... well, that's the plan. And here the seat is fully forward. and fully arft... and an overview from a bit further back.. Back to the side panels.. Then I will come back to the trim and a the boots and...
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Post by wishful4444 on Jan 12, 2021 11:27:44 GMT
Good day perthwa
Pleased to see the seat does not foul the console.
Are you going to stain the leather with the console in place or remove it?
I don't know what type of speedo etc you are fitting but the upright would be good for a couple of dials if needed.
My eye was taken to all the wires, quite frightening.
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Post by perthwa on Jan 12, 2021 23:31:07 GMT
Hi Wishful, yes I will be removing it for staining as I have to remove body soon to do the radiator, and the floor, firewall etc. At this stage I will be attempting to use stock Focus dash with Tacho and speedo. If that works?? then fine. else a couple of dials will make their way into the upright section. What wiring? oh all the spaghetti in the background... that's only little a bit of it... I know what everything does as I labelled it all BUT some lengths need a fair bit of trimming..and re-routing. I have been quietly stripping bits out of the loom and sending them through the frame rails to their new homes; lights for example, engine bay loom, battery cables... these have been done. a lot of this is heater and aircon and ABS and airbags.
I am just waiting to get the engine to talk to me before I start removing some more NON essential bits..
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Post by perthwa on Jan 12, 2021 23:36:26 GMT
moved back to the passenger door card. Bit of welding to attach four rivnut supports. three more rivnuts into frame. Two bits of Aluminium trim and voila! I do need to clean and polish the trim. These were remnants from a fellow clubbie who did some plasma cut work and there are a whole lot of 3cm strips. They were cut with the plastic cover in place and I have also not been that delicate putting them in and out probably 15 times... Just have to finish lower right hand side. with weld one bracket, 2 frame rivnuts, two bits of Al trim. Then back to Body Panel fixing to frame job I started a month ago.
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Post by perthwa on Jan 13, 2021 2:47:06 GMT
Pulled out the seats to do the door card on the driver's side and got distracted; the bolts on the seats were never the correct length and there was too much play to ever pass DOT and it would annoy me driving anyway. Because of the way I have re-used the original seat runners, with the addition of a 3mm strengthening plate, the thickness of the seat runner 'bracket', the bit the bolt runs through, is about 1 cm thick. nb: These seat runners are also the inboard seatbelt mounting points and are over engineered by a few percent as expected. Anyway, the bolts were too long and as I have also used Allen Head bolts, (so that I can access them through the hole I drilled in the seat adjusting bracket), It was easier to cut all 8 bolts down by approximately 1cm and get them to fit the actual seats correctly. Done. 2 more hours on a job that I said was finished two years ago. Back to the door card, I promise. I will also post a couple of seat snaps. This shows what I talked about. The green arms are the slider lift arms to disengage the teeth. Here is an earlier photo of the seats from the front showing the 2cm clearance that I manage to get the seat down to. Basically the height of the runner track itself. This allows a huge bonus for my leg to steering wheel clearance. And here is the right hand door card. There are two bolts missing and I need to install a screw into the rear section below the seat belt mounting bracket and under the fuel tank support rail. i.e. next to the seat belt lower bolt. You will not be able to see the hole near the seat belt support bracket as fuel tank cover hides all that stuff. I also attached the wiring for the Handbrake, now that I have a hole cut in the centre console upright; the hole was for the headlight switch and anything else that I wish to display. Still thinking about the Hazard lights switch. I am happy. The side panels done. Back to body panels.
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Post by wishful4444 on Jan 13, 2021 16:30:48 GMT
When are you going to fit the floor?
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