well well well, here we go again ladies and gentlemen. i am very very sorry that it has taken so long, i started a new job in March, including moving away from home and everything that comes with it so unfortunately the dolomite took a back seat for a while
. but yet, here i am trying my best to get stuff done and hopefully i will get some momentum up!
after much deliberation I decided that it was best to get the exhaust built. this is one of(if not, the last) major fabrication job left which will require welding on the shell itself. So to prevent any faux pas regarding welding onto a painted shell, this is the next step.
anyway, to the pictures! just in case you have forgotten what it looks like....
The next step is to get the exhaust built. This will be done by a chap called Kevin who runs BM Wizard in Oswestry. He is a BMW specialist but also does custom exhausts. In my ringing around i spoke to 5 or 6 seperate fabricators, all of which gave off varying degrees of enthusiasm and knowledge about a) dolomites and b) the engine itself.
One of them even asked me "oh is that the 6 cylinder engine? the straight 6?"
IN contrast Kevin exuded enthusiasm to me and we ended up spending a couple of hours on the phone(spread over a couple of phone calls) talking about the project itself and how he would go about the design process and such.
To facilitate this, we had to fit the gearbox. We struggled for a while to fit it but then realised that when me and Alan cut the tail housing about we never trial fitted it to the car.......
as you can see, the gear remote is fouling against the tunnel. oh s##t, we thought.
After a few frantic conversations, and panicked conversations with Alan himself, we decided to make the gearbox fit...
So we marked it out....
and ended up with a hole!
as you can see, it ended up fitting quite well! it was agreed that when 90% of the car is custom built, I am bound to come across problems like this. the strength that was cut out isn't consequential in terms of the structural integrity of the shell when it isnt going to be driven and that strength will be returned in some fashion before its painted.
we then bundled it onto a trailer and took it to Oswestry.
and there it is awaiting its next big step!
exciting things to come
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