A brief update of various things that I probably should have taken more photos of…
For years my intercom set have been a US military pair that I re-keyed to work with the Peltor intercom. Happened to see a pair of Zero Noise transit headsets while at a race track in California, and decided to head home with them. 3D printed a quick hanger to toss them behind the passenger seat. You may wonder why I’m okay with them on an angle, and touching the seat, but it’s pretty simple; I need to keep as much space between the headrests for passing event boxes and gear into the back area.
Also 3D printed a modified cupholder/brace for the shifter, which allows me to place the Paluxette espresso machine in a useable spot. “Why,” you might ask, “is this going in your Rally Beetle?” Well, that one is pretty simple. You know the black beetle dash with a silver coffee maker on it, that gets posted to your favourite Volkswagen group every month? Usually with the caption “in 1960 a dash mounted coffee maker was a VW accessory” (or similar). That’s my 1958 Beetle, my Hertella coffee machine, and my photo that is being used without credit and an incorrect caption. So, car mounted coffee makers has kinda become one of my “things”. Figured might as well put one in here too :P
Rear bumper is mounted, still haven’t gotten rid of the red bolt washers on the apron, but ‘eventually’…
I got multi-colour printing working on my 3D printer. I think in order to make the text work better I may need to move to a 0.2 nozzle instead of the stock 0.4, but overall I’m pretty happy with the results I’m getting.
Built a new floor plate, with dead pedal. On the one hand, it looks great and I’m quite happy with it. On the other hand, I now realize I should have put a ‘bubble’ above the clutch pedal as well. The brake, totally fine. I may see if I can lower the plate on top of the clutch master. I need to road test it to figure out if I need to modify it, but we’ve got salt on the roads and snow coming, so that isn’t going to happen quickly.
Running boards, and the scary part, mirrors have been mounted. The mirrors are temporary, but long-term temporary. I have different set of mirrors that I really want to use, but no good way to mount them to the car. Eventually I will use these mounts, and use the 3D printer to make mounts for the mirrors that I want…and eventually CNC them.
Glass is in…and these photos are totally out of order :P
Hoping to get the car outside in the sun tomorrow for some real photographs. But it’s ready for road-testing!