Shiny bits waiting to go on.

Halfway through fitting the new headlights. Makes the old ones look huge!

Time for the pedal box. The problems I have are:
1. I have an aluminium bulkhead and floor - not ideal for mounting it!
2. The aluminium bulkhead is on the inside of the chassis rails, not the outside
3. I need to cut out the current floor mounted pedal supports and the brackets that hold the servo - which are a nightmare to get to with the angry grinder!
First I need to remove some of this.

Halfway through cutting out one of the brackets by hand


Brackets removed.

Metal supports from original pedals removed. In doing so I had to cut through the floor, but it doesn't matter because I'll be replacing that part with steel.

Next up I need to work out how to mount and support the new pedal box. The simplest solution would be to remove the aluminium bulkhead from the inside of the chassis rail and replace it with a steel bulkhead on the outside. This would also give me an exposed lower chassis rail to bolt the pedal box to. I can't do that without removing the engine and bodywork though because clearly the aluminium panelling and brakes were fitted before these


Trial assembly - should work ok I hope!

And from the rear.

The next problem I've got is that the pedal box is designed to be bolted to the lower chassis rail, but you also need to drill holes for the clutch and throttle cables. That would be four 8mm holes in a chassis rail about 25cm long, which I've already inflicted a bit of damage on while removing the servo brackets. Looking at this there should be enough clearance to thread the clutch cable above the chassis rail through a redundant clutch master cylinder mounting hole. I may get away with the same on the throttle pedal, but doing so will reduce the travel of the pedal - so we'll have to see.

That's it for now, might take tomorrow off and see if I can get a bit closer!
Dan