Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

Jimi,

It was already wired up but with poor connectors so mostly I've just tidied it up (it was more of a rats nest before). I don't particularly like the top wiring (I replaced the thick manky wires with modern thin high capacity wires) as you point out - it's not as tidy - but its perfectly safe/adequate and unseen so will do.

Doing it from scratch I would probably do it as you describe.

I didn't realise you were tidying up existing wiring, always ends up a bit of a compromise in that you have to draw a line somewhere or you end up ripping it out and starting again, which is not always the best use of your time

Regarding your last post, a bargain donation, some nice gear in that lot, good to see properly crimped battery leads

You really do work like a machine.

Amazing progress.

I think it would benefit from some styling tweaks. Angles and curves to echo the original panel. It is just too square for my taste. 


The neatness and symmetry though, that’s good. 👍👍👍

We quite like the stepped look.

You have to remember this is just a quick panel knocked up to see how it will all fit (or not fit).
It may look like a finished panel becuase I cut it on the CNC machine at work - but it only takes about 2 minutes to make a panel.

Curves would be nice but cause other issues for fitting the side panels etc and then the console turns into a 2 week job. I have a limited time left to get it finished now so we have to try to keep things simple.

Yes he does have a fair few keys, but the stepped panel will keep them away from the stereo, but I'll encourage him to slim down the amount of keys on the ring as he will only need 3 for the car.

Phil came over today and we discussed the dash. He likes the grey as it almost matches the door trim colour and should tie in nicely with the dark grey carpet.

We also wondered about mimicing the dash shape but both of us think it would look wrong - we both like the shape as it is. It does look better in real life than on camera. It will also look better with the aluminium edging around it. I might paint it to match the dash as well, I can cut several different ones at work and do different colours to see which we like best.

The fuel tank is now back in the car, we had to get the fuel sender wire fitted before it went in - but it will most likely have to come out again.....explained in a minute.





After that Phil was tasked with wet sanding the door jambs and sills. His heart was in his mouth sanding his nice shiny paint but once I explained it he got on with it well.

While he was doing this I was sorting the rear loom for the car and getting all of the trunking ready. We had some fun getting all of the wires fed through the trunking - especially when we realised we had forgotten the fuel tank sender wire - it all had to come out again to get re taped and fed back in. The trunking is now installed to run up through the drivers A pillar and over the windows (with a branch to the middle of the roof for a dome light) and then down into the boot area to pass out of waterproof glands to the rear lights/foglamp/reverse lamp & fuel sender.

The tank will have to come out again as I need to fit the waterproof trunking gland and all the cables need to feed through this first.....

No photos of wiring yet as its not really very photogenic.

Last job was spending Phils money on the Jag axle spares we need for reassembly - I used David Manners as they carried everything we need including all of the shims for the bearings and for setting the toe on the fulcrum arms.

782 hours.

I vote for polished aluminium for the edging. It will match with the guages and help to break up the grey.

Phil came over again tonight and continued rubbing the paintwork down, I continued on the wiring. No photos to show as wiring is a time consuming business and not very photo worthy, and the same goes for sanded down paint.

789.5 hours.

More wiring tonight, dashboard loom is now terminated with a 15 pin connector;