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Of the many options and kits available we have chosen the South African Birkin - a kit which faithfully reproduces the beauty of Colin Chapman's original car and which you build up with component parts from the factory, adding in your choice of engine and transmission.



This holds true to the tradition of garden shed mechanics without requiring quite the level of welding skill, or CAD programming, that some of the amazing, home built clubman cars require. Or at least we hope not, as neither of us have done anything like this before.....



Sunday, July 25, 2010

Body loom and relay box

This caused more head scratching as there is no set way to install the loom. We fashioned a bracket for the relay and fuse box from sheet aluminium, padded the back with strip foam and bolted it into a likely looking hole. Once we had decided on a route for the wiring to take, we enlarged some of the internal holes and covered the edges with rubber stripping to prevent rubbing - the external holes into the engine bay already had grommets.

The wiring for the gauges and switches was cable tied behind the dash as suggested by previous Birkin builders and the front end wiring tied along internal chassis tubing to the left of the engine bay
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