That'll work, looks good to me. Pity it won't be seen unless on a hoist or ramps. Hose clamp trick is a winner, nooice!
I made your splash guards today while making the bumper for a Mercedes and tomorrow I'm planning to get your bumpers modified as we discussed.
Next week here is going to be a melter , summer finally arrived

I downloaded Gimp software also, but havent got the cad laptop here..
At a minimum, it might be another handy tool to convert file formats around easier.

Looks pretty good Deano. As long as it holds together ok you'll be happy.
One thing which helped me was getting my exhaust guy to open up the ends (on some off cuts of various lengths) so I could sleeve the joins rather than but. If one end is opened fairly liberally then the next piece slides in and has enough wiggle room to introduce some angle and then just tack, check, adjust and weld it up.

Awesome work mate, if the angles aren't quite right you can always heat it up and tweak it on the car, just need a big pole to stick down the exhaust .

ha, thanks guys. Its done now and another job ticked off.
Thats the good part.
The not so good part was I was just finishing off, and noticed one of the hanger brackets could have done with an extra dollop of weld.
It was just a small amount..
So I thought i'd be ok without the welding mask on, do it Vietnamese Welding syle, close your eyes.
I welded upside down fine, but a hot welding splatter shot down my left ear ole.
I heard it fizzle as it went.
I suppose thats a welding right of passage somehow, and a lesson to always wear ppe.
 

I was doing the help tutorial on Gimp and the interwebs was so slow , found out we'd hit the max allowed for the month, Damit ! Another 2 days wait, argh !!

throttling eh?
That will teach you for trying to learn the proper way.
 
Pretty hot today Bruce, even in the shed.

I'm trying to help hehe. Think I'll just get the gasket out again and scan it then work from there on fusion 361..
So glad I got the fglass jobs did last week, no end of heat coming this week. I'll get your stuff wrapped and ready soon..
No gb for another day...Haven't watched regular TV f for years, now I know why, it's rubbish !!

Yeah we had a real warm weekend, and week coming apparently..
My cousin who lives at the marina, some poor guys yacht about 200mtr away caught on fire.. Oh thanks for sending all your forest smoke and lipo battery smoke our way too lol . SAs air quality reached 160 from a regular 40, what ever that means.

the best part about 38+ degrees and having the Cadel Evans bike race on in Geelong meant we were trapped:too hot to take the dog to the beach, plus the top of our street was cordoned off anyhow for the race.
Which meant more garage time, interrupted only when the choppers flew overhead, so we'd wander up the street just intime to watch the team cars, police motorbikes and everyone fang past at breakneck speed.
 
Some painting satin black:


a bunch of headlight buckets and headlights
 
 
then back on the wheels for the first time that I know of, with a Pinto fitted

 I fitted one of each style of headlight, to mull over. Plus it all has to come out again anyway.
The skinny rosyles are growing on me.
I have some Performance Superlights with 14x6' tyres on the Capri to use come RWC time, or maybe it might be worth getting something cheap to use on these rims.
Next job is to dig the wiring loom out again, and make a proper effort this time.
 

speaking of wiring, I saw that Martys SA neighbour TAff is making these updated fuse blocks with 8 circuits that take the modern euro style fuses.
Im not sure of the pricing, but they apparently go in the same location, and can be for either Mk1 or Mk2.
I had bought just a generic std fuse block that runs the wiring out each side, but what I think Taff has done is to 3D print a spacer that raises the block and covers up one side for underneath entry: ?