First Pics of ERA #795

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Originally Posted by DanEC

Kevin - it's coming along well. You may pass me up as I haven't touched mine in about 6 weeks. What did you use for undercoating - Looks good.

It's interesting that your foot boxes are beige resin - mine arrived with red resin.

I wouldn't worry too much about the electrical. I'm actually slightly more capabler at electrical than I say - but I just don't like to troubleshoot it because it forces me to think harder than I want to. I would rather groan and gripe and ask for help than sit down with a wiring diagram and multi-meter and figure it out myself from scratch. Just don't get in a big hurry to secure all the wiring bundles up under the dash until you have checked everything out, because if there is a glitch you will be pulling it all back down to verity conductior to conductor match at the big plug connections.

Looks great!

Dan

Hi Dan,

Thanks, it is coming along slower than I'd like, but making some progress. The undercoating is 3M Professional Grade rubberized undercoating. There is an old thread on this forum where a member put this on his car 5 or 6 years ago. I pm'd him and he responded that it held up well and still looks good, so I decided to use the same product. I roughed up the aluminum panels with 60 grit and wiped everything down with rubbing alcohol as part of the surface prep. Probably not necessary, but I definitely gave it something to bite into. Good advice on the electrical. I actually tested the heated seats using a battery and they work. Don't know about the rest of the electronics but I'll deal with that as it comes.

Ordering the front tires today and will get them mounted as soon as I can. It will be good to see it sitting on its own feet for the first time - I'll post pics when I get there. Have a week-long business trip coming up next week, so that will stop me for a bit. I'll be seeing Peter, Doug and whoever else from ERA Saturday after next at the Carlisle Import and kit car nationals.

Regards,

Kevin