Rebuild Part 1

With clear coat lacquer dried, the whole interior except for the roof panel was masked off. The interior of the roof panel was then given two coats of matt black paint.

I had toyed with the idea of using some black acoustic fabric for the same job as I’ve seen it done on other cars and thought it looked good, but then it would only have been for looks and would have served absolutely no purpose. After a couple of days, once that had dried the interior was finished so I could start the rebuild.

The flocked dash which has been in the spare room for almost 6 months is now in, along with the full set of carbon panels for both the doors and rear quarters.

I finished up by carefully (avoided scratching the paint by using thick card) putting the main hoop of the roll cage in at the B pillars, once this is in I can fit the seats. The drivers will be the first to go in. I want to check the seating position is okay on the new sidemounts that I bought – I’ve made some changes to these already, but some more may be needed to get a good position.

Weighed a few bits, just for interest whilst I was at it and I’ll now update the table of weights and the to do list. It feels really good to have achieved some progress…