hovis16s rallye (pic heavy)

[hovis16]

while the world is coming to an end the best thing to do is attack the car.

As the spoiler was suffering with paint fade and swirls I thought i'd redo it.




MUCH BETTER


First thing since I repainted the spoiler was to wash the car and pop it back on.


That looking nice a clean I decided to take the seats out to clean everything and prepare the exhaust channel area to fit some eyelet plates


Once all the interior was out I could see that the sound deadening tar had cracked and lifted slightly. As I had removed it all from the front the plan was to do the same on the rear

Out came the blowtorch B) B) B)

the problem now is the person who fitted the cage before didn't do the greatest job. as you can see from the photo it have the Cowboy yeeha drill the holes and bang it in. Problem with this is the feet are not mounted to a flat surface...…….safety issue secondly this allows water in which rusts and weakens the floor.

So after removing the tar and cleaning sanding the floor plus tapping down the floor plan that was slighted dented due to p**s poor fitting I'm left with a void between the cage feet and the floor. As I have cage plates I drilled the holes and shaped the edges and tapped them under the feet.

For now much safer until I can get them welded in place and the void under the plate built up, according to my engineering/ welder mate shouldn't be a problem. Next bit more prep then add some paint.


And because it a semi race car.... weight saved

and besides is looks a hell of a lot cleaner now