Bit of a push

Started on the passenger side… needs some work due to some poor quality previous work. Not long after this started chopping bits out:

Not going to post a lot of pics of the work, because to be fair, most of that is not very exciting. So here’s something a bit different. This is the standard position of the wiper motor:

For throttle bodies to fit in the scuttle the wiper motor needs to be moved to the other side of the scuttle.

I’ve done an AX single wiper motor conversion previously, but this time decided to fit a left hand drive wiper setup. Acquired one a few months ago from one of our Dutch friends:

Drilled out the brackets:

Scuttle looks a bit cleaner, just needs the holes welding up:

Just need to weld them on to the other side

Inside I took out the tunnel plate that the seats mount onto. I need to fab up some reinforcement to put some strength back in for the handbrake mounting and it’ll need plating on the sides.

With this out when I weld the new seat rails in I’ll be able to get a more central driving position

Also half way there on fitting the Satchell rear wishbone mount stiffeners

One thing I hadn’t realised or if I knew it, had forgotten… S1/drum brake cars have a different handbrake setup.

This is the S1 handbrake:

S2/disc handbrake to go back in: