Fibreglass

During some odd hours this week progress was made on the boot carpet and drilling holes of the fuel filler cover (which is not mentioned anywhere in the assembly guide). If you read the last post, Caterham did send a replacement bearing, but it was just as sloppy as the first one. Their response? "There should be some movement". I have responded to this (quite frankly ridiculous) statement with a video showing the magnitude of the motion (that for some unknown reason will not display properly on this blog). 

The main objective of the weekend was to get cracking with the cycle wings and the rear wheel arches.

Cycle wings

Installing these turned out to be a bit of a pain in the neck. Drilling holes in the cycle wings knackered many a drill bit and the Caterham suggested method of installation was not ideal. On the LHS the Caterham method of drilling the fibreglass for the front holes first and then marking the wing-stays before transferring to the wheel for the rear attachment, was followed. An alternative to this was what we did on the RHS, where the wing-stays were marked up with a hole 1.2cm from the end and a spacing of 8.5cm between the centres; this was drilled both front and back. Once drilled these could be transferred to the cycle wing directly by lining it up where you wanted it and then marking though the holes; this was a quicker method overall.

LHS cycle wing on

Feeding the indicator wire through the wing-stays was a fiddly task; I resorted to toothpicks to try and guide the wire out of the narrow opening - which eventually worked. With the cycle wings on and the lights wired up it's starting to look more like the finished article.

Probably should apologise for using the bonnet as a tool storage area!

Rear Arches

The rear arches needed to have the carbon fibre plates installed prior to fitment to the car. Feeding the rubber piping around the edge of the plate was a time consuming, fiddly task. Once stuck in place with tape they were drilled and riveted to the arches themselves. They did start to the look pretty cool with carbon fibre panels on! Material stillness to be removed in the area of the radius arm to allow it to A fit through the arch and B allow for motion as it absorbs the bumpy english roads. When that is done I shall add the arches to the car and put the lights on.