Weekly status update time.
So as I mentioned above, I busted one of my mirrors. I found a "carbon fiber" set that's identical otherwise that I like, so I am probably just going to replace them both with that set. I did, in the meantime, straighten out the mirror ear on my frame as close to perfect as I can with two pairs of vice grips.
I don't think I reported on it in this thread, but I mounted my wing. 53" long, with a built-in third brake light and turn signals. It was cheap ($180 something) and I don't love the look of it, but it'll be one of those items that goes on the Upgrade List for Later.
(Don't worry, I have since cleaned up my disaster of a garage, lol!)
Today, I mounted the headlights (another upgrade item for later, I think) and mirrors, and wired them up. I also corrected a months-old mistake I made with the wiring; I had accidentally ran the turn signal wires to the headlights and the headlight wires to the turn signals. It wasn't too bad to fix, just had to strip off a baseball-sized wad of electrical tape, re-run a few wires, and tape it back up. I do, however, still have a small wiring problem that I will try to fix when I am feeling ambitious ... instead of (ground, parking lights, low beam, high beam) running to my headlights, I seem to have (ground, parking lights, parking lights, high beam) instead. I have no idea where my low beam wires went. Functionally it works, it's just impossible to have the parking lights on without the headlights, and both positions on the headlight switch do the same thing.
A bunch of my stuff shipped from DF on Friday so I'm rounding the last turn into the home stretch. Still work to do.
- Wire taillights and wing
- Finish turbo intercooler mounting, wiring, and plumbing
- Put the shifter together
- Top off the transmission fluid (should I flush ALL the existing fluid, or is it fine to mix new with old?)
- Build the rear suspension
- Put the parking brake together
- Cut and attach the footwell cover
- Cut my engine cover
- Wrap/paint/whatever the hood, side panels, and engine cover
- Mount the windshield and frame onto the hood
- Once everything else is done and the car is "done", finish up the push-button starter with proximity detection
- Figure out what I want to do for a sound system (I have most of this in mind already)
Additionally, I saw a wheel lighting setup that I'd like to adapt to the Goblin. The only problem with it is, it's designed to use a normal car's brake dust shields as mounting points, which we don't have. In the future, I'll see what I can come up with as an alternative.