Quiet day today, thanks to rain and work BS knocking me around a bit.
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Main Lancer progress was to shorten the throw on the gear shifter.
These are the arms for the lateral movement for two cars. Photo isn’t obvious, but I made the arm at the bottom of the photo longer by cutting a short part off the end, and then welding a longer piece cut from the second shifter.
Red texta on the bench is the outline of the unmodified arm.
The arm in the top of the photo is the two short parts, with an extension piece welded in.
Same again with the bottom of the lever itself - the extra piece I added is scrap from the bonnet pins … it was literally sitting on the bench and was the right length!
Put a sleeve over both of them just to be sure.
Cutting down the crush tubes in the rubber mounts makes the whole lot more rigid. 
Tah-duh!
The throw in both planes is down to about 70% for the “good” one (without the extra bits added. The other one is slightly faster, but not expecting it to be too much different - it will go into the blue khana Mirage. 
The $16 pinchweld turned up, so I fitted it around the door opening. It’s just a nice little thing that helps stops helmets getting chipped when they are bumped into the door opening.
Photo also shows the glovebox refitted, and
the silver vertical support for the dash (to the right of the glovebox, going down to the transmission tunnel.
Side project was to fix my bent press.
I have no idea how I did this - I just looked at it one day and saw it was bent. 
The problem is that it wasn’t pushing straight anymore - it pressed slightly rearward and to the left, which made everything much harder and some things were downright dicey.
I considered trying to straighten it, then decided to flip it and reset the new underside to be parallel to the base plate.
All worked out really well. Haven’t used it properly yet.
Oh, and the resonator turned up today. I expected it to be no-name garbage, but it’s Redback brand which is better than I expected. 
Rollcage has been ordered through Bond. I was going to do this weeks ago, but my two previous pays haven’t arrived and it seemed frivolous to be spending that sort of money when I have no income coming in.
One fortnight’s pay arrived today, so I ordered the cage.
