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14/10/2007 Fitting doors. I ground off the original plate where the striker mounts in order to fit the new one supplied by Marlin (original in wrong place)		14/10/2007 Door with new striker plate in place. I bolted it on just in case....	31/10/2007 Offside of rear tub bolted up


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31/10/2007 Filler cap. The crossed lines was where the molded pip on the tub indicated the centre of the filler should be. It was a bit out...	31/10/2007 Nearside of rear tub bolted up. I had to cut away some of the fibreglass inner wheel arc in order to get a snug fit on this side.	31/10/2007 Offside door as supplied. Needs to be twisted to fit better.	31/10/2007 Twisting the door. I used a couple of largish sash clamps top and bottom to give something to pull on. I also had to clamp to of the seems to stop them bowing out too much and splitting.


31/10/2007 Door after twisting. Much better fit.	31/10/2007 Door from above. Don't understand why the support for the dash top is tapered in like this.	18/11/2007 A-panel after trimming	18/11/2007 Forming the return on the A-panel. The return stiffens the trailing edge which is very floppy without the return.


18/11/2007 Another shot of the A-panel	18/11/2007 A-panel fitted	18/11/2007 The Marlin supplied (left) and replacement hinge bolts. With the Marlin bolts the hinge pivoted on the thread of the bolt allowing a lot of slack. With the replacement bolts (stainless) the hinge pivots on the shank of the bolt and there is much less free play.	18/11/2007 Ebay bargain. "M" type aftermarket steering wheel made by Momo. OK so it doesn't look great but it has the all important padded centre.


18/11/2007 Actually the looks are beginning to grow on me. Specially as it was only a tenner...	18/11/2007 Another Ebay bargain - Raid boss for a fiver. You can clearly see the construction designed to collapse on impact. To the left is the BMW contact ring for the horn which fits inside the boss.	18/11/2007 Nose prepared for fitting. This took a lot longer than expected particularly as the molding was a little "rough around the edges". I had to do quite a bit of filling on the rear edges where there was a gap between the gel coat an fiberglass matt.