Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Well, we are finally back into the swing of things. Now that all the paper work is completed and we received our acceptance letter, we have resumed work on the car. The past couple of weeks Rich has made a few adjustments. He has modified the rear end design of the previous year. The rear end is just sheet metal that comes to a point in the back to help the car be more aerodynamic. It also has a hole in the back for the exhaust so it does not fill up the engine compartment.

Today he is working on mounting the side view mirrors to the car. IMSTEA requires the mirrors to be a minimum of 7 square inches for each mirror and a mirror on each side of the car. Hopefully he will have the mounting plates fabricated by the end of the day and maybe even have them mounted to the car.

The sheet metal for the floor is ordered and Mr. Mengel is working on machining a piece for the drive train. We still need one new tire and then other than putting on the Mono-Kote covering, the car should be pretty close to done.