Having checked through all the boxes and found a few things missing - 3 calipers, speed sensor, steering wheel and crutch straps I contacted Sean (my new friend at Caterham) who promised to have the missing parts with me by Saturday. In the meantime I created a couple of small alloy plates to seal the gap between the foot well and the side skin (a potential grot trap).
Polished paintwork twice using Auto Glym Lifeshine - £15 from ebay (should protect the paintwork). Then covered the front half in masking tape/cardboard.
Sprayed Dinitrol in the gap and stuck the plate on with silicone sealant. Also sprayed Dinitrol on the inside of skin esp where the ali wraps around the chassis rail as that looks like it will fill with water/mud.
To avoid any problems with heat from the manifold (close to my feet) I plan to stick heat shield material to the foot well and tunnel.
Already got lots of hints/tips from the Lotus 7 Club via its Forum Blatchat. Also contacted by Ian in Poole who got his Supersport kit this week - so we can swap stories as we work through our builds.
Fitted rack and wishbones but struggled to fit both top mountings of the shocks - had to file the hole on LHS to get the bolts to fit through cleanly.
Had a concern that the upper rear wishbone mount bolt was very close to the shocker - but a post on BC confirmed that when on its wheels the shock would be further away from the bolt head.
So far so good...
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