How to revamp a cheap ebay steering wheel!

I bought this 2nd hand Mountney steering wheel on ebay at the start of the project, it looked a little tired so I got to work on it........

With all my recent experience of vinyl wrapping this was a little bit  more added to my vinyl education.....

...and I'm quite pleased what you can do with a bit of an offcut and some patience!

More wrapping and some more wiring

More carbon wrapping and some more wiring has gone on and Im quite happy. However it does feel like theres not many technical updates going on the blog recently but theres not a lot left to do and I dont think anybody needs to hear about brake bleeding do they? hardly sexy!

Carbon Wrap...again..

Having very successfully wrapped the scuttle in carbon fibre material I thought hey! lets do the bonnet do as it looks so good. I removed the bonnet scoop and got started.....

I did it indoors for heat purposes and laid it all out in accordance with most internet instructions. This is a much bigger panel than the scuttle and off the car is very flexible.....

I cracked on and to be fair it started looking really good......

The bottom line is that the photos may look good but I may take it off and do it again. Theres a few points most wouldn't notice but I know they're there and I know they'll bug me in the long run. On the upside the finished article is going to look very trick indeed!....

Just a day in the sun....

The Final cut!!

I started fitting the stainless GBS manifold which is a really good quality bit of kit...

I made a card template to make the final cut in the bonnet for the exhaust exit...

Looks the business!

I also got a bit more electrics done with the help of my mate Gordon and we now have a fully functioning starter ignition and solenoid relay......

Enine loom, Thankyou OMEX!

I'd modified and built my own engine loom from the standard Ford bits but it was all getting out of my comfort zone, so havng dceided on an OMEX 600 ECU I got their loom which was much cheaper than GBS or Emerald.....

For me this type of work is mind boggling.....

...but within an hour and a bit I had it sussed, BIG thankyou to ATSpeed racing and OMEX who have been amazing, I think I made the right choice....

It's like Christmas is getting closer! :-).....

More cutting the bonnet AND turning the engine over

Amongst other jobs the Pipercross air filter arrived and meant I could set about making a pattern of the bonnet.....

So having fitted the real bonnet and marking its seating points on the scuttle and nosecone with masking tape....

I then set about pushing the thin card onto the filter to mark out its break out points from the bonnett...

Starting small and under-estimating the necessary shape and size I once again set about the bonnet with with a jigsaw!.....

Gradually enlarging the hole until it all looks rather good....

A good point to note here is that I hadnt final fitted the filter so that if there was any error the filter could be moved to compensate and give a tidy finish.....

Also fitted the wing mirrors too ... but...

The best part of this weekends work was that I have been testing all the electrics that I have  fitted and wired so far AND..... they all work! To top it all I connected the starter and new battery and the motor engages the flywheel and turns the engine with ease..... emotional!!! :-)