Fitting lights, adding hood scoop, painting rear storage...

Started  putting on the indicator, brake and headlights and fastening them to the body. Checked to see if the  electronics were working – the red light came on – hooray!  Spent a good amount of time sending down the fiberglass joins and tried to fill / sand the low areas with very quick drying rage gold body filler.

The hood scoop was a bit intimidating to cut out, but  followed the instructions, measured the center, drilled the rivet holes, and used the jigsaw to cut out the panel from the double layer hood material -  looked cool with the cleckos holding it on!

On the road to go-kart level

As of now there are only a few steps left before we have a functioning rolling chassis. 

First off we had to order a throttle cable bracket which holds the throttle cable and allows it to actuate the carburetor.

The bracket is the hoop shaped thing; on the left are the return springs and on the right is the throttle cable.  

Here's a picture of our flexible fuel line connecting into the engine. 

This is me adjusting the handbrake so it doesn't bump into the transmission tunnel. 

We aligned and drilled the mounting holes for the seats, they are skewed outwards to be more comfortable and roomy. We broke 2 drill bits in the process of drilling through thick steel. 

A better shot of the skew. 

These are our custom trunk compartments, I spent a good long time filing down the edges to make the walls flush. 

Look forward to my next post as we'll likely have carpets somewhat installed!

Preparing cockpit for seats and racing harness...

Glued down the silver insulating foam, and marked out where we wanted the seats, adjusting the direction carefully so the final position would be comfortable - no adjustments possible!  Look at the smile on Mr. P's face as he tries on the harness for the first time!!