Steering rack arrived in the post first thing this morning. It's currently missing the track rod ends which Phil has said he'll post on. Not that it bothers me too much because I have spares. Most importantly it has the pinion. Paintwork is a bit tatty, but no worse than the red paint on the original suspension members.
Finished cutting the fillet, offered it up and found that I'm going to have to take quite a bit of metal out before it will fit. Made up a cardboard template to assist with this, but a rain shower meant everything had to be packed back into the garage at short notice.
Rain shower over, back down to the garage. Decided that I couldn't be bothered with the fillet for the moment. Using the Fein Multimaster set to work sanding down the P40 that I'd used on the crack in the passenger wing. The tool works remarkably well, and there's a good smooth finish on the filler blended neatly into the original fibreglass. There are however a couple of small pock marks where there were air bubbles in the plaster, when I mix up another batch to do the nose cone I'll fill them in. Started thinking about trimming the rough fibreglass of the edges of the new wing, but another rain shower hit...
Made a start cleaning up the new wing, cut away with spare fibreglass at the edge of the moulding using the e-cut blade on the Fein. The using the coarse grade sandpaper started taking away the spare fibreglass right up to the edge of the mould. Got most of the lower edge of the runningboard done, but stopped short of the wheelarch since I need to lay the piece down on a towel to protect it before cleaning up the arch. Looking at the old wing I noticed that an extra rib had been moulded on to improve the strength of the arch, I will need to add this once the wheelarch has been cleaned up.