Another day in the sweat box today.
Decided to sort start sorting the bonnet. Set up the bonnet against the blast cabinet as there was a good even bit of floor there.
Then used my laser level, ensuring it was adjusted to be totally level using the built in bubble gauge.
I know there may well have been minor discrepancies using this method but it gave me a starting point.
Then measured from the nose to the laser projected line.
Drivers side 190mm
Passenger side 210mm
So the misalignment would appear to be somewhere in the order of 20mm, less than it looks to my eye but it turned out to be pretty accurate as you will see later.
At this point I had to decide whether to stretch the drivers side or chop the passenger side, the chop option won out for no other reason than I thought I would prefer the look.
Marked out a wedge cut going from 0 on the drivers to 20mm on the passenger side.
Cut this wedge and then repeated the operation on the underside. Result was:
First issue to resolve was the misalignment you can see on the left of the nose. another quick chop followed by putting it all back together with ali sheet and screws.
Happy with progress so far we moved on to making the start on the reinforcing frame that will be bonded into the nose.
Using 16mm 1.25mm wall steel tube we slit it every 10mm which allowed us to bend it quite easily.
bit of cutting and shutting later and it fitted ok into the recess in the nose.
Next job was to temporarily bolt it into place using 4 M6 set screws, you can just about see them in this pic.
And this shot shows the ends of the crews body side which are all pretty central which means the tubular frame is nicely seated.
At this stage the day went south and we tried to fit the bonnet to the car. My genius idea for my tilt frame didn't go to plan and it was immediately removed and remade, another test fit showed it still wasn't going to work and at this stage it was getting late so called it a day.
The up side is that by trying a couple of solutions that didn't pan out I have eventually arrived at a solution that I'm pretty sure will.
The worse news is that I'm back off down to the big smoke (London) Monday am and will be working every day for the next 12 :-( so no work on the car until a week next Saturday.
TTFN
Mac