My 170S Build
A newbie tries his hand at building a car
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Time spent: 6hCumulative time: 90hMain activities: Finish front wings, rear suspension and brakes I did the second pass of the wings with the glue this morning, and tidied up the indicator wiring in the underside of the wing. It seems to have set pretty well overnight. Disposable gloves essential for this job so that you…
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Time spent: 6hCumulative time: 81hMain activities: Roll cage, rear suspension, drive train, front wings Had some family visiting over the weekend who I quickly put to work to help get the rear axle in place. Its definitely a two-handed process. First job was to wheel the whole car out of the garage and turn it…
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10 Feb 2023 Time spent: 5hCulmulative time: 21hMain activities; Installing the front brakes and wingstays. Drilling of wing support Pre-reading blogs by others had warned me that this might be tricky. Turned out to be so, but definitely a game-of-two-halves in that the LHS took me 3h and the RHS took me 1h. I had…