Brilliant thanks Richie it was something I was looking to address and was wondering about a rubber finishing strip. But as I'm doing a carbon cover on the glove box as well I think it would look a bit naff on that.

Rob, these are really good for finishing the edges on carbon sheet etc, removes the un-evenness of the fibers that are left when cutting it normally and leaves it nice and neat

https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/permagrit-small-sanding-block

Well you're in luck  . So as the original dash had been removed to provide templates for The One rebuild, so I'm minus a dashboard, which opened up opportunities for a bit of artistic license, I thought about the original black plexi-glass, I even found a black plexi-glass with glitter in that i thought might give a cool '70s vibe, but in the end i went for carbon fibre. The gauges come from Autometer and annoyingly they all are the Black signature series apart from the Oil Pressure gauge which they don't do in that style, so i've got a slightly different bezel on that one. If i can find a busted 52mm gauge with the bezel i need i might try some surgery to swap them.

Now the key to keeping a 9yo involved is making sure you have things to readily bolt on, to keep the interest going. So to make sure we had something to do this weekend, i decided to make the dashboard afterwork. Now i still need to drill new fixing holes in the right hand side and perfect the corner radiuses, along with mounting the switches and lights, but it's 90% there and we have something to bolt up on Saturday morning. The final thing i need to sort out is the space on the far right, on the original The One this was an interior light as can be seen in the second pic, now i can either copy that and i don't think it'll look bad or come up with something else....remote shift light???

Anyway that's it for today.

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Can be sold as a roller or complete😉

Cutting pieces of carbon fiber for the dash you say? I like where I think this is headed... Can't wait to see the end results!

Brand new kit, Pat Downs Shockwave, Wires, HEI coil and black cnc billet distributor.
3400 SEK

We have some in hex and round bar for sale

http://www.rjvolksperformance.com/fast-fab-products.html

In the pairing lanes at Melbourne Raceway York....before i set the record for the longest oil spill

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So onto Sunday (12th May) and I had to actually get a win on the board, (hold on i had actually beaten the golf i was paired with as I was leaking oil everywhere). But anyway I wanted to keep the momentum moving on the Ragtop, if i let things slip, then interest wanes, so whilst it's not healthy on the bank balance having small wins every week or so, keeps Daniels and my interest. There's a reason the 67 was originally done in 12 months, my utter inability to undertake long term projects.

So today i spent the morning cutting the carbon fibre for the dashboard, no pics as it's still a work in progress, then in the afternoon we headed to BossHogg's Speedshop off site location. Armed with a box of goodies, a boot full of tools and the piece of carbon to tweak to fit, Daniel and I put in a couple of hour. Ok so i put in a couple of hours, Daniel did one and then played on his Switch for the remainder, still that's one less hour of screen time.

So today the passenger door handle and radio aerial was put on by Daniel, and the steering column was bolted in place as it had been swinging in the breeze. The door handle striker unfortunately doesn't line up with the lock mech. handily i have a full set of reclaimed handles to pick up at EBI, so i can sort that later. However it gave Daniel a job today and he did well, not one scratch on the high speed finish.  He also mocked up the lucas indicators, they will need bolting in properly when the wiring loom is replaced . So that's this weeks update, pics below:

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There is always discussion about oil
We only use good quality mineral oil
Then it is made in the US. For the US, the oil has higher levels of what is good for an air-cooled EU has a different environmental requirement, so there are less of the heavy metals that are good for lifters and cams
If you buy US oil, look at the packaging so it is not the volume, the amount in liters. Then it is manufactured in the EU
You have to look at wear and tear in the engine
Above all on the cam and lifter, also how the bearings look
When we open a 1600 challenge engine that has high revs and lots of boost (8500rpm boost 2.8 bar) the bearings look like new after 3 years
/// Micke