First we ran a bead of silicone along the top of the tunnel tubes, then aligned all of the rivets and proceeded to pull all the rivets from rear to front.
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| Absolutely freezing!!! 2 jumpers, boiler suit, jacket, and hat much needed. |
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| Someone's little joke on dad. |
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| We then put a bead around the edges to seal the holes and neaten it up. |
Rear Wing
In order to get the wing on the car the link arms had to be removed, which we decided to do instead of cutting the large slot out of the wing. Then we loosely attached the right wing, then cut a piece of trimming roughly to length and started trimming it to fit. Firstly we punched a hole in the end for the bottom rear hole. Then while pulling tight we marked and cut slots for the bolts to pass through, and then large slots to remove slack in the rubber.
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| First hole. Metal punch set used a few times so far, pretty useful in this. |
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| Small "V" for small bolts, Square for the Link arm mounts, and deep "V" cuts to allow it to pass around a smaller radius. |
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| Finished Trim. |
Before tightening the wing we had to re-fit the link arms as the play in the wing is required to allow the radius arms to swing back into place. It was at this point that we realised that the holes in the rear wing for the link arm bolts to pass through weren't quite in the exact place for the washers to not foul. To fix this we took the arms back off and removed the front bolts, which gave enough movement to be able to get the Dremel in to widen the hole.
To finish we started with the bottom rear bolt, so while one of us pulled the trim taught and held the wing in, while the other tightened the bolts, continuing round the wing.
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