September 10 ....... the list of things to do gets smaller

The focus was now Silverstone on 16th October. That must be do-able! surely...

Amongst the jobs that needed doing was to get the interior safety equipment sorted. The Tillet seat needed adjusting for position and fixing down with eye bolts with reinforcing plates. Fortunately the new side mount format and Mog runners woth slotted adjusting holes allow plenty of adjustment. I like the seat quite low and I was able to get the bottom of the seat on the floor which means the centre of gravity is as low as possible. I had bought some longer eye bolts (they are 7/16 unf as standard and you can get them 50mm long. I drilled out the 8mm standard front and rear seat mount holes and pushed the eye bolts through the seat runners and down through the floor. Spreader plates are required underneath. These are 100mm square x 3mm steel plates with a 7/16" unf nut welded to the underside. A quick coat of Duralac on the top of the plates and they were run up the eye bolts. The plates have a 5mm hole in 1 corner so that they can be pop riveted in place to stop them unwinding. The 6 belt Schroth profi-II was then clipped in place. 

I had fitted 2 eye bolts to the rear of the Mog seat mounts, one each side on the vertical, for the two crotch belts. These need to be fitted as far back as possible. 

It was good to have a trial fit in the seat with the belts and helmet so that I could set the bet adjustment and check the seat position and angle. It felt really good to be 'belted up'

Next job was to fit the standard elise pax seat. I had bought a 4 belt Schroth for the passenger side, fitted in eye bolts as for the drivers side. Just fitting the seat and belts took the best part of the whole weekend. I just had time to fit the A frame petty bar padding. This was an easy enough job as the standard 1m fireproof tubular padding (Demon Tweeks) is slit so that it can be wrapped around the bar and secured with cable ties.

I just had time to mount the Alfano lap timer that I had bought from SELOC classified. It was only loosely positioned. I will have to come back to it.

It was starting to look like a proper race car inside. A good weekend's work!!.