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Small update. Now it's been a little warmer I have started pottering in the garage. I continue the panel work. Bought a new set of colbolt drill bits (my God Mike, impressed with the toughness of the chasis, not easy drilling holes in it.) Anyway , started on the inner panel on the passenger...

Small update on the build diary. Like many, I am sure the first few weeks is getting the right tools and right set up in the garage. I found I could not see the car properly due to the single light bulb I had. So, found a 4000 lumen LED strip light, and spent half of last Sunday wiring it up...

Brilliant. Nice to meet you Don. Very excited to meet up and investigate your Southern GT40 when we are aloud out! Having someone who is so far ahead of me that has the same kit would be very useful. Looking forward to meet you. I live in Knaresborough, so easy to get to York. H

It's a small world. I befriended a group of car nuts a few years ago, and one of my friends in the group has also recommended EDA. I will be contacting them shortly.

Thanks Paul @ Michel. I haven't tightened the nuts up on the bolt yet, so I hope that the bolt is long enough to allow me to demonstrate at least the minimum protrusion. Thank you for the support guys. I have a printed out copy of the IVA booklet (bible) and can see how easy it can be to...

Thanks Mick. I took a closer look. Amazing what you don't see when you look at something in the whole. I saw thousands of rivets all over the place, and didn't look properly. You are correct as always. Small allen key nuts hold the panel in place. No need to cut.

Next, the lower wishbone. I need to do some modifications to the panelling. The holes currently are too tight, as you can't see the bolt had or nut through the current holes. In favour of taking out rivets, I am going to use a small cutter to extend the holes in the coming few days. I can then...

Thanks Mike. Will review. H

My attention then turned to the other end of the wishbones. So, using the other set of front wishbones I thought I would loosely bolt them to the chassis, to see how that works. Starting with the upper wishbone, I found myself asking some questions, of which after a conversation with Southern...

Whilst waiting for the rivet gun, I started to look at the front suspension, which is based on a ford granada. The first obvious question I had was regarding when to use and when not to use washers with nuts. Sounds like such a stupid question, however the more I researched the question, the...

Whilst waiting for the rivet gun, I started to look at the front suspension, which is based on a ford granada. The first obvious question I had was regarding when to use and when not to use washers with nuts. Sounds like such a stupid question, however the more I researched the question, the...

Up in Yorkshire. How about you?

Looking at the number of rivets still needing to be done, I have ordered a AT995 Air Compressor Powered Hydraulic Pot Pop Rivet Riveter Gun 3.2mm – 6.4mm and a SGS 24 Litre Direct Drive Air Compressor. The previous owner has used Avundel Avinox BE61 stainless rivets, from Zygology. Wanting to...

Step 2 - Get to know some of the parts. As I bought a part built car, my first challenge is to try to figure out what I have in all the boxes and bags. The first thing I looked at was the engine. This was originally sourced back a few years ago through Southern GT, but the original purchaser...

Step one. Make some room in the garage. Sounds easier than it is. Lucky that I have a double garage, but like many, it's used to store many things for the family. However, after a month I managed to get one side of the garage free!

Hi all. This is my first post on my build log. I'm sure like many others, I have read and re-read many forums over a prolonged period of time before finally taking the bullet and starting a project. Last week I picked up a part built Southern GT40, where 80% of the panels were done, steering...