Two steps forward one step back.

We worked on a couple issues that didn't really move us forward very much. The firewall was riveted on and painted before my kit was sent to me and the problem was it had quite a few runs in the paint at the rivets. I'm pretty fussy about things like that so we had to drill out 61 rivets so we could remove the firewall. I decided that after I have the firewall powder coated we would reinstall it with counter sunk screws so we had to countersink all the holes in preparation. This will require us to install rivnuts in the frame for the screws to go into.

The second issue we ran into was with one of the wheels. After installing the front wheel spindles we thought we would install the wheels to see how they looked and fit. We found that one of the wheels had a defect and when we tightened up the lug nuts the wheel wasn't tight on the spindle. We spent a long time trying to figure this one out and the only thing we could come up with was that the lug holes on the one wheel got drilled to deep when it was manufactured. I'm waiting now to return the wheel for a replacement.

We're now waiting for the delivery of the correct Wilwood slotted and drilled brakes that should have come with the kit but they made a mistake and the rear-end, which wasn't shipped either as planned, so we can get the brakes installed.

                                    Here we've removed the firewall. You can see glue residue.

                                                    Here you can see one of the runs.

                                                                    Holes countersunk.

                                                                    All countersunk.

 

Steve putting in some pilot holes before I did the countersinking. 

 

This is the wheel that just didn't want to tighten down.