We felt like an easy and visible job to start the day, so fitted the main rear lights. This was relatively straightforward, as the rear wheelarches have a pre-shaped area, so no measuring required. It was simply a case of masking off the area on each side, then marking and drilling the four corner mountings and a larger one in the middle for the cables to pass through. The latter we made slightly larger than suggested, at 7mm, but this was still only just large enough.
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| Near side lights fitted, off side in progress |
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| Rear lights fitted, Matthew resting! |
We then moved onto the cooling pipes. The water pump to radiator pipes were done a while ago, so we did the next most obvious set - the thermostat to the radiator top connection. This involved two cut sections of flexible hose and a long J-shaped aluminium pipe which will be fastened to the chassis when all the pipes are in place.
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| Radiator to thermostat connections |
We then got a bit stuck, as it is not at all obvious which bits go on next. This is not helped by the manuals: Of the Zetec-engined insstructions the 1800 Zetec is obviously different and the Aerorace seems to vary at this point. A call to the factory on Monday will be needed to work out where the remaining parts go:
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| A few cooling pipes left, but not obvious where they all go! |
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