April 2012

The front and rear clips are re-fitted.

Then the wheels are re-fitted.

I guess it would be reasonable to say I am back at the position when I first acquired it :-)

Although I have identified and corrected a number errors along the way, in particular:

Front hubs transposed.
Rear upright washers transposed.
Brake Master Cylinders transposed.
Replaced flimsy plastic P clips with galvanised clips with rubber inserts.
Uprated water pipes that are hidden behind luggage container with silicon hoses.
Generally tidied up things - petrol tank finish. Aircon facia panel, side pod covers, added some sound / heat insulation.

Looking from under the rear clip you can see the variations in fibre glass thickness that I previously mentioned.

I will not paint inside of the rear clip yet as I need to finalise what engine and thus what configuration I will have. Sticking the heat refelctive mat will get better adhesion to the clip if it is unpainted according to the build manual so it would be reasonable to extend this philosphy to sticking the air intake etc. for an LS engine.