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The next thing you are checking for is that the kit is not out of horizontal with the bodyshell. The easy way to do this is to look at the gap between the roof and the top of the rollcage hoop. Also, where the rear top shock absorber mounts fasten is a tube, which runs very close to the bottom of the rear passenger windows. By looking in the back of the car, you can centralise the kit using these reference points as a guide.
Once you are happy that the kit is square in the car, drill through the rear rollcage feet with a 10mm drill, and fit four 10mm bolts supplied in the kit. Tighten them up and then move to the front of the cage. The rollcage feet should again be manoeuvred into position to give the best fit along the windscreen pillars and square to the car.
We have welded a metal skirt along the rear beam so that a number of holes can be drilled along its length where the floor pan and the skirt touch to allow fitment of approximately twenty 6mm bolts.
Mark along the floor using the skirt as a guide so that the final cut can be made when the kit is removed.
You can now remove all bolts and front rollcage hoop and take out the kit.
Now, cut along the floor panel 30mm back from where you have just marked it, so that the kit fits correctly. Paint the interior of your can.
Once this paintwork is done, you can fit your engine and exhaust system into your kit, then refit the kit in the car as before. line it up with all your pre-drilled holes and bolt together.
We would advise using silicone sealer or similar along the floor pan between the skirt where the 6mm bolts go. This helps stop the ingress of water.
In your kit you will find:
- a handbrake cable
- a crescent shaped hand brake cable stop, and
- a short cable to handbrake adaptor
There are also a set of rear brake pads in the kit.
Fit the pads into the rear calipers then fit the handbrake cable to each caliper, looping the cable from one side of the car to the other in front of the engine, the cable lies on top of the rear arms and above the beam.
Fit the handbrake cable stop to the cables and lie it on top of the tunnel. Drill three 8mm holes in the tunnel and bolt the stop down.
Fit the handbrake cable to the handbrake adaptor, and then bolt together using 8mm bolts. See picture opposite.
In the kit you will find a gear lever with an aluminium plate, a cable and a small bracket which is used as a cable stop.
Fit one end of the cable to the gear lever on your engine. You need to thread the cable through the cable stop which is welded to the frame of the kit. Using the large nuts on the outer end of the cable lock off the engine end of the cable and feed the cable under the tunnel towards the front of the car.
To find exactly where to bolt this bracket, you must fit the gear lever into its original aperture on the tunnel using 6mm bolts. you will find that you can then bolt the cable to the bottom of the gear lever and providing the gear lever is vertical in the car, you can drill and bolt the bracket in place.
(image on right: Gear linkage mechanism)
Fine adjustment of the outer cable and inner cable is achieved by shortening or lengthening the rose joints on the inner or adjusting the large nuts on either end of the outer cable.
(image on right: Adjuster when installed)