Almost there

It has been quite a while since there has been an update to the car. That is changing right now because here is an update. Ever since we got the cage welded up and compliant it has just been an hour of work here and a few there. Not a lot of work. After doing that for a while we finally got some work done. The cage was painted and looks good. I haven't taken the time to take a pictures of it quite yet. We also installed the master cut off switch. Decided to put it on the dash on the passenger side because the battery and other wires used were right there so that leaves less cable running in the car. Next up was the sunroof panel. Since it was originally a glass sunroof we were required to put a panel over it. Below are a couple of pictures of the sunroof panel rivoted up to the car.

The only other thing that we have left to do for the car to be issued a log book is put rollbar padding in it. There are some other things going to be done to the car. Currently there is a check engine light on and the tach doesn't work. I have diagnosed that the crank angle sensor is bad which would cause both the tach not to work and the check engine light. A new distributor should fix that problem. After that there is a header for the car that needs to be put on. Hopefully it shouldn't be as long before the next post.

Door Bars

Not a lot of work has been done to the vehicle on our end since the last blog post. However, the work that was done by someone else has helped us out greatly towards getting the car done. Since the last post we needed to send the car to a professional to install door bars. We sent the car to Jesse Prather Motorsports (http://jesseprathermotorsports.com/) where he installed door bars, dash bar and window net and steering wheel removal adapter. The work was well done and makes the cage complete (other then paint).

As you can see the passenger side has no bends to it. This was done to make it quite easy. The driver's side has some bends to the door bars. It needed the bends to get around the seat but the bends also absorb some of the energy which makes it safer right next to the driver.

You can see the steering wheel we are going to use. It was actually in the car when the project started. An adapter was put on to fit the removal wheel adapter. This wheel has a great feel to it.

Once we got the car back from Jesse Prather Motorsports we took it back to 801. I took the seat out and cleaned up the welds on the seat brackets and then sprayed a couple coats of flat black paint on it. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I decided to get out the old set of intercomp scales we have laying around and see what the car currently weighed. We compared what the scale showed to a brand new calibrated scale and the old scale consistently showed 15 lbs of weight more. The car came in weighing 2157 lbs. This weight was without the seat and its brackets and with no driver in the car. I didn't look to see how much gas was in the car. Minimum weight for this car in ITA is 2250 with driver. I am confident that we will not have to add any balast to the vehicle.

Next on the list is to prep the door bars and paint them to match the rest of the cage. After that it will be on to installing the remaining required safety parts.