11th September 1999:
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11th September 1999:
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Disregard all the tools sitting on the bonnet - they will probably be removed before the car is driven! The original front bumper is in place after all. The corners have been bent out to meet up with the front wheel arches. There would be two spot lights in place, but they are almost the same each side so guess who took two n/s ones over to Paul. The grille and lights all fit in now, all the work behind them has been completed. I had a call last week from Paul - we're just cutting up your headlamp! When you've seen Paul at work, you know to stay calm at times like this. What he meant was they had taken the casing off the back of the headlamp and 'adjusted' the size downwards a little. Simple enough you may say, but one of the adjusters had to go - fouled the engine - and a new one was made up. Note the markings on the front panel of the car to ensure the bumper is fitted absolutely centrally - because the front of the car behind the bumper is all Integrale, it wasn't just a case of bolt the bumper back on, new bumper mounts had to be made. |
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With the corners of the bumper being pulled out, needless to say they did not reach back far enough to meet up with the wheel arch. Paul has made up a metal strip to extend the side of the bumper back so it mates with the wheel arch. Once the bumpers have been filled, they can be sprayed with some rubberised primer and then colour coded so the joins will not show. Clever eh! The contour of the wheel arch lip also has to change slightly otherwise the front wheels will just foul on steering. As Paul put it, this problem has only occured because the wheels are a little (!) bigger than standard. |
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Tight fit, isn't it. The Y10 front end is shorter than that of a 'grale, and the lights are deeper thus cutting space down to a minimum. The top o/s engine mount will be changed - it is a retaining bar - for an adjustable one with polyurethane bushes so as to pull the engine backwards just a tad and hold it in place better. The cam covers stick up a little so there's no chance of the bonnet fitting in standard form. Decisions have been made, pictures shown to Paul and Evo grilles acquired. A large centre bulge, Evo style, will be fitted using the Evo bonnet grilles. Not sure quite yet what is going to happen over the turret tops as they foul the bonnet too. I think they will be dropped a little - encroaching even more into the suspension travel - and then we will go from there. As an aside, Powerflex have supplied a complete set of their polyurethane bushes, so when the suspension come out, these will go back in. |
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