Back to work, machining the steering wheel rim. Machine a little, let it sit, machine a little, let it sit... Hopefully, at the end of the process, I won't have a floor full of cute little Maple Burl chunks.
I cut the original dash out of the body today, so I could get my dash taped in place.
This old foam plug is pretty beat up but I think the original models and CAM files are locked up or lost in my coffee-saturated external hard drive. I may have to protect this with my life, and fix it up.
This is all in preparation for doing the dash bar. It's cut and sectioned because parts of how it's going together might be extremely difficult/impossible to do on a bender, and because I had the old roll cage main hoop just sitting here, doing nothing, with the perfect curves in it. Chamfered and plug welded, with inserts at the joints, it should be okay.
I was inside again, for another "test drive". It is soooo tight in there! Making everything clear and work is going to be one helluva challenge, but I think I'm up for it. The first casualty might be the Honda steering column. That adjuster will interfere with the clutch work, as it is. I also cut the opening for the shaft in the firewall way oversize, to give myself room to experiment. I am going to give it a try before tucking my tail and stringing a plain piece of tubing through there.
