Fire Extinguisher
Being a lovely Saturday morning it started out as a pleasure to fit the 800g fire extinguisher made for liquid and electrical fires. It came with a mounting bracket so I lined it up with the seat and checked it could be removed without the seat getting in the way. The bracket has 2 pre drilled holes so these were transferred to the floor drilled and the job was done, easy!
Relocated Indicators
The indicators have been mounted on bars made from copper pipe and plumbing fittings - not ideal although they got us through the SVA test. To relocate them we removed the headlights and the associated wiring. Next the nose cone had to come off and we found a nice spot for the indicators to go which we chose as its inline with the headlight bar and as far back as possible to miss the radiator. At the same time I gave the front end a good clean down as its so hard to reach with the nose on.
Fly Screen and Centre Mirrors
The fly screen came with the kit but we were concerned it could cause radius issues because of its fairly sharp edge. This is the same for the rear view mirror as its got sharp edges and looks 100 times better than the current one. The screen itself started with a massive lip that when I sat in the car I couldn't even see over so it was trimmed to half its size. We drilled 8 holes and burred them out so we could fit flush bolts. The fitting of this part was a hell of a task because firstly the scuttle had to be removed for access, the position of the holes are right where the MNR scuttle comes back on itself and is really tight to get to plus most of the holes are obscured by wiring.
After this was on Dad had a crack at getting the new Race Tech centre mirror on. A fairly simple job of drilling a hole for the mount, fitting the lower part from the bottom and then the main part from the top. The mirror is a lot smaller and higher up which really helps with the view of the passenger side wheel and there's a night and day difference with the actual rear view. With the old unit, above 50mph the old one would fall back and give a nice view of the handbrake whereas the new one is vibration free and fixed in position.
