Removed the brake lines from under the car, but left the fuel and emissions lines there.
The brake lines were tucked in next to the chassis rail, so I wanted to move the fuel lines in closer.
Left is the modified bracket, right is original.
Driver’s door trim.
Progressing…
And done…ish. Some of the edges should be trimmed down to be more even, but I don’t think that I care enough.
It is remarkably rattle free, considering the lack of support in the middle. I’ll see what it needs once the grab handle is fitted.
Also added the lower harness mounts.
And mounted the fire extinguisher.
Removed the mechanical handbrake, mostly to make room for the extinguisher and the inboard harness mount.
Cut out the jack holder and child seat mounts… not for weight saving, but because they stop you putting two tyres in the boot. 400g, which is both trivial and more than I expected.
After several days of stalling, I began on the struts.
The Subaru mounting ears are too widely spaced and the bolt holes are too close together for the Mitsubishi/Volvo uprights (25 vs 23mm, 65 vs 70mm and 14 vs 12mm respectively).
The original plan was to make all new ears, but I am going to try this first…
Welding up the mounting holes and redrilling to suit the Mitsubishi size and spacing. This has the advantage of less fabrication and also knowing that the ears are parallel to the strut centreline.
It will offset the strut by a couple of millimetres, but I am good with that. There’s actually a bit of trickery in doing this, in that it reduces the trail without reducing castor - makes the steering lighter without messing up the geometry… although this amount of change isn’t going to make a difference.
Today’s side quest was messing around with the Chinabay fuel rail on the silver Mirage. Short version is that I have all of the fittings I need, except for the return line out of the Chinabay pressure regulator.