Tuesday 8th August

Now the weather is better I can do some more work on the Midas. It fits in the garage but there isn’t enough room to do work on it due to the other stuff I have stored in there. Yesterday I decided to sort the dashboard out, it is currently retained by M6 nuts on the various M6 socket head bolts around the dash. I decided to replace these with captive rivnuts as getting my hands in through the radio hole was awkward to say the least and I now need some new skin to replace all the scrapes that I got. One of the nuts was an absolute pig to get at so I drilled the head off it. Like all things on a kit car nothing is easy and I ended up having to remove more than I thought. With the instruments out I decided to get rid of the battery isolation switch whilst I was at it so the bonnet came off too. I got it nearly all back together this afternoon, about another hour tomorrow and then a hoover and a wash and polish ready to use in the nice upcoming weather.