Nathan's Road-Legal/Track BB4

[NafemanNathan]

Shouldn't matter... It's looked like this for months (whilst it's been laid up) ...



The area around the fan should be sealed, but I'm gonna take this out tonight to check.

[NafemanNathan]

Bloomin ell!

Could've let me know before you sorted it, I was half way down to Yeovil with me swimming *****s on!

I'd want to find that leak soon bud - looks like your hunger for removing things has come back to bite you!

Good luck finding it.

Rob

Um...why has the word T...R...U...N...K been blanked out?

I know I don't look great in them but come on!

[NafemanNathan]

Could've let me know before you sorted it, I was half way down to Yeovil with me swimming t-runks on!

What, were you p!ssed up or something?

It's alright... Just means I have to remove more things to find it

I was gonna be keeping my heater blower and all that, but after seeing Rich from PA's setup I think I'm going to adopt his method

[NafemanNathan]

Um...why has the word T...R...U...N...K been blanked out?

I know I don't look great in them but come on!

It's true... My mind has blocked the image of you in speedos as well!

[NafemanNathan]

Likewise. The Aussies call them 'budgie smugglers'.

Some misguided soul tried to discourage our colonial cousins from using alternate words for boot, bonnet etc. Not sure how to turn the swear filter off now...

Best wishes, Colin

[NafemanNathan]

Well I'm a doofus! The problem was staring me right in the face! ](*,)

This picture I posted yesterday was how it looked under the skuttle panel. Rain water would simply run down the wind-screen, under the skuttle panel and into the hole It's not that obvious looking at this picture, but from the side, the over hang hangs about halfway over the hole 8-[



So, I cleaned up the "drain" and simply refitted it ...



What an idiot!

Anyway, once I'd finished soaking up todays downfall, I positioned a few bits and bobs to give me an idea of how she's gonna look when I'm done...

Look at my new shiny brace! Cheers Frank, looks great! Think I will go for black though...









Not sure about the blue against the red, but hey, I can always wrap the induction in black heat wrap

My new top Samco hose isn't going to fit either. I thought I was going to be able to cut it to fit, but unfortunately it'll end up too short, so I'm going to have to look for an alternative. I think just a straight length should do it (a black one ), unless anyone else who's done a half rad conversion knows of another make/model hose that'll fit???...

Anyone what a top Samco hose in A1 condition?

[NafemanNathan]

Glad you sorted the rain ingress problem. In the words of the poet Homer (Simpson): "D'oh!"

The blue against the red looks fine to me. People will be too much in awe of what you've done to be worried about the sartorial elegance otherwise.

Best wishes, Colin

damn thats 1 sexy looking bay nath!!

[NafemanNathan]

Latest ebay steal for Nathan...









Never been fitted. £57!!!

Now just got to modify the standard mounts to fit...



Should just need to grind off all the top brackets to leave me with a flat surface (much like the lower one in the pic minus the studs), then either drill holes to suit the underside of the seat. Or, with the more than likely scenario of the seat centres being different to the rail centres, I'll simply attach some horizontal plates in between the rails to secure the seat to.

I also started stripping the engine loom of all the gammy and/or brittle electrical tape the other day...

Before...



After...



It doesn't look much different to the before picture, but with all the tape removed and with the remains being split conduit (which is just holding it all together at the minute) I'll easily be able to connect the connections then run the cables where and how I want, taking up any slack, removing the cables I no longer need, in order to customize my own loom which should end up looking a lot tidier than the original I'm even toying with the idea of using a transparent conduit (if there is such a thing) in order to show off all those pretty colours And there's a lot of them to!

Took me 2 hours to remove this lot!...



Oh, and where a standard Prelude upper rad hose wouldn't fit my half rad conversion...



... A simple 32mm 45 degree 150mm legged hose did ...

[NafemanNathan]

result on the seat mate.
I have got some universal seat sliders that you can have if your plan fails for any reason

[NafemanNathan]

P P P P Pop up a pic Matt! How do they mount to the chassis?