Paintwerks' Absolute Pace 427SC build thread

[Paintwerks]

Originally Posted by Cobra01

Hi Simon

A nice thing that I should have done when was putting in the insulation was to trim the insulation material 15 MM narrower than the stainless panel then you would be able to see that there is an Aluminium Chassis between the Stainless Panels.

Another thing to consider is to seal the edges of the insulation material with heat resistant Silastic so it won't fray and run .

Also remove the protective material from around the bolt holes in the stainless panels before you fit them to the engine bay.

This will stop the being little bits of the plastic covering poking out from under the heads of the Stainless Button Head bolts when you fix them to the bulkhead.

That's all for now and well done.

Cheers

Brad

Thanks Brad...and to the compliments/interest from others too.

Yes, the manual does present the option to trim the insulation panels 5-10mm inside the line, but after seeing that some of the panels didn't quite fit the shape of my engine bay, we decided it was a smarter option to fit them in place as they were cut, then overlay the polished panels because when they were fitted they would firm the 'reference' that you'd want to trim the insulation panels to.

The manual also suggests to use the Parfix grey roof and gutter silicone to seal the edges, not the (clear) high temp silicone. So I'll be using the former.

Another tip that I recommend is to have a little notebook handy to write down reminders as you observe them. Case in point, when we took the body off, we found two aluminium shims fitted to the right side sill. There was no mention of these in the build manual....so I made a note to reinstall these when the body goes back on. It'd be an easy thing to forget in the grand scheme of things.