Build Day 38- Boot Cover Prep and Headlight Wiring

Day 38- Boot Cover Prep and Headlight Wiring

Boot Cover Prep   

As Caterham have offered to replace and re-fit another rear bulkhead interior carpet we can't fully fit the boot cover, however we can at least do some of the fitting. The first job required removing the metal band from the forward edge of the cover. This required unpicking the stitching at one end and sliding it out.

Unpicking the stitching.

Once the strip was removed we could mark the positions of the harness bolts, then we used our punch set to cut holes for them. At this point we marked the popper base points along the top of seat bulkhead. We marked and drilled 3mm (7/64" = 2.8mm) holes 1 1/4" either side of the centreline, then one half way between each harness shoulder strap. Then decided to leave the rest of the attachment until after the post build inspection when we can do a proper job. After this we reattached the trim of the boot cover with impact adhesive.

Sticking the underside down. The top was most undamaged when we unpicked the stitching.

Headlight Wiring

Just a little bit of tidying and connecting before the cars goes off. We attached the wing repeater wiring into the connector block, then earthed the LHS repeater with a ring to the brake union t piece, and the RHS repeater earth was earthed in unison with the headlight earth in the connector block. We then tidied the RHS connector block under the expansion bottle bracket and the LHS connector block to the chassis tube under the top radiator hose.

RHS earthing of repeater piggybacked onto headlight earth.

RHS headlight connection tidied under bracket.