Not much progress, still waiting for the bonnet but here's what I have got up to....
I test fitted the seam covers, the rears were fine, but the fronts were not as they stuck out at the bottom and wouldn't follow the profile of the A panels.
So I cut some small slots in to bend them, and also had to shave a bit of the inside edge so they would pull up tight to the panels evenly front and rear...
Having clamped them into place I popped a small weld on each slot to hold it, took them off the car, popped a piece of copper inside and then welded them and dressed them, all looking fine now, will need a touch of filler to tidy up in the end....
On the passenger side I also had to do the same at the very top as it wasn't correctly profiled, same job, same outcome.
I have also re-done the bracket I fabricated to hold the relays to the side of the servo mount as I felt it was too flimsy, I used thicker gauge steel and have mounted the single lonely original relay that doesn't attach to the new ones slightly differently too, this should be more solid...
I've been deliberating for some time over DNS classics door hinges, the minispares replicas are ok but very stiff and a bit rough around the edges. I had also intended on getting a set of minivation articulated bonnet hinges but since they've now finished I decided to use the money to get some nice DSN ones, since it makes sense to fit this with the new bonnet to ensure everything fits together I bit the bullet and bought the door hinges too. Now these are much better, really nicely made, smooth as you like but with no slop at all and I no longer need as many shims, in fact on the drivers side I've used no shims at all and the door fits much better....
I also finished off the fitment of the rubber boots for the speaker cables and power cables for the central locking, was a bit tricky but is a nice neat solution, you can see this on the picture above fitted.
And talking of speakers, I've been pondering placement of my tweeters, and I think my best option is mounted to the door, so I've done one side and I think it should work well, it will stick out a little and I'll need to knock up some kind of sleeve to fit between it and the door panel so it's neat but that's a job for another day, here's where it goes.....
That's all, bonnet I'm promised will be with me in the next week, but I'm off on holiday next week so am anticipating being able to get cracking again when I return.
