After the sprint last weekend there were a couple of things to sort out.
First there was a bolt lying on the trailer when I arrived home. The bottom bolt on the right hand rear shock unscrewed itself so it went back on with some loctite, luckily the spacer was wedged under the bottom of the shock.
I ended up with a bruise from the switch panel I fitted for the lemons race. When you are throwing everything around in a sprint you tend to brace more and the new wider seat meant the panel was now in play so I bent up a piece of 1.6 sheet to fit the space. It will get some velcro glued on so a movable pad can be fitted and shifted around to suit all of us. I will use rivnuts at the bottom and tek screws at the top into the dash.
Before I move the battery box and isolator I wanted to fit the aluminium shifter we bought to check what realestate would be needed. The aluminium shifter is heavier but the stock shifter uses a plastic bush under the shift lever which wears and gets gummed up. And it looks betterer and that alone adds 17hp.
The shifter was made for some Honda thing so as usual it was back to front and none of the holes were in the right spot. The shifter cable brackets were also not usable.
The left to right lever is on the wrong side so off with the cable arm and back to front to look like this:
Had to hack the base so my inner butcher came into play to make it fit the space and had these bits left over.
Some new holes and this is how it sat.
The cable supports are a pain. I made them out of some 50x3 gal flat and bent and tapped holes to fit the arm. Drilled a 25mm hole then file and file and file and file and file until the cable fits. Still a little fettling to go because the clips lock into place and they are currently a bit tight. I will fit some dome nuts to cover the exposed threads.
I also quickly and roughly turned up some plugs to fill what is left of the original holes in the front and will help transfer the clamping force properly. Bit of trimming and they will match the cut frame. The cable support arm had some new holes drilled and tapped to swap end for end.
And here it is:
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