Below is an extract from Chris's kit car build diary - to read more, please visit his web site.

25th Jan
Had a look at the alloy panneling since that comes first in the manual. Need some tin snips and a riveter. Trip to B&Q to get them. Spent quite a while looking at the pieces of metal trying to work out where they all go till finally it begins to become hazyish. Time to dive in and do something. Start trimming away at the passenger floor panel and seat back.

The process for fitting the pannelling seems to be trim a bit, trim some more, squidge it into place, find the bit thats catching and trim some more. Once the panel fits its time to clamp it and drill what you can before the drill battery runs out. Power in the garage here would be a real boon. Next stage is to take the panel out and run some silicon sealant round the bits of the chasis in question to give a little more water proofing and hopefully to stop any rattling. Whack the panel back in and clamp it down with some G-clamps lined with a piece of cardboard to protect the alluminium, doubleo check that the holes line up still and fill the thingy with rivets. Buying the best rivet gun you can find is a good idea as there are loads.

Engine

• Stage 2 - Ford Pinto engine 2l
• Built with many new parts by Tiger
• Produced 143bhp at post running in rolling road session last summer,since then it has loosened up very noticably.
• Unleaded inserts
• FR32 Camshaft
• Alloy rocker cover
• Twin DCOE 40s
• Twin throttle cables
• New, uprated radiator
• Stainless exhaust
• Wrapped header pipes