Saturday - less than 90 days to go.

Worked till about 3 in the morning yesterday wiring up the car.

As mentioned earlier, replaced the ignition switch with flick switches, no key needed.
Looking at the wiring diagram, actually only Ign 1 is really required. I think I just went overkill on the cable gauges. Oh well, at least it ally's the nightmares I have of the car catching fire.

I need a new battery box.

The battery box will be moved from the car to next to the driver. Hopefully better weight distribution, I think.
Will it really make a difference? I guess I'd like to be able to retain the passenger eat to give ride.  Yay.

Pedal box.

Did I mention earlier that the car will have a pedal box? This one I bought from OBP - Optimum Balance Products. It was reasonable and was supplied with Master Cylinders etc.

The advantage of the pedal box? Braking. This unit comes with 2 brake master cylinders, one for the rear and one for the front. Connecting the cylinders to the pedal is a balance bar which allows one to control front/rear pressure with a turn of a knob.

This is a floor mount unit, and will eliminate the brake booster - which means direct feel straight to the calipers. Never having used one before, I'm going to need some time to get used to this.

Mounting.


Started drilling holes in the floor plan today to mount this. The positioning is going to be awkward but I opted to position it such that I can brace my right leg to the side of the seat while being able to accelerate.

Tools

One of the most useful tools I've bought to date is this cheap MIG welder. While my welding quality can be hit or miss, this has allowed me to do stuff to the car that uhm, only a welder can. Oh well.

Just make sure that you cover every exposed parts of your body or suffer from UV light burns as I have in a previous post.


Finally,

I thought I'd revisit somethings else that was done to the car. To keep the weight of the car down, I replaced most of the windows with Lexan. Lexan is tacked onto the frame which means you can't wind down the window. "Race car" means that there's no airconditioning in the car.

And believe me, it gets very hot in the car. So, we then include NACA duct vents that hopefully will give sufficient ventilation with little drag.