After a very busy period meaning I didn't do much with the car, last summer saw some progress. The intention is to have the car out next season, so I need to get cracking.

So, the original plan was to keep things very simple and just make a few small tweaks, but it did get a little out of hand, as these things often do. Generally the shell is in pretty good condition from a corrosion perspective but I did find a few areas that needed to be addressed. Most concerning of these was where the nearside front roll cage mounting met the chassis. Sadly, when the cage was fitted, the builder never sealed the welds, so the floor pan and chassis had rusted quite a bit. It was well hidden under the paint, but it was soon fixed up.

One area that I always wanted to change was the jacking points. The key thing with a car like this is ease of maintenance, and you don't want to have to waste precious moments in service jacking the car up and putting it on axle stands. So, I have fitted sill stand points, as well as the front and rear jacking points, as seen on the F2 cars. A couple of pictures during the fabrication phase:







The sill tubes and front jacking points need to be trimmed to suit the skirts/bumper, but you get the idea. The other corroded area was the front bulkhead, so I had to get busy cutting that up...





Note that the heater motor hole has also been plated. The heater system is being simplified dramatically, with a new (tiny) heater matrix and fan to save some weight.