Fingers crossed this works…

Last week I reached a huge milestone, and I’m pleased (and very relieved!) to say it all happened right on time, like clockwork. Well almost like clockwork as there was a hiccup, but now I can relax a little and enjoy Xmas!

So I stood back, held my breath and made a video on my phone… and up it went. I only realised afterwards that it also lifted 70ish kg of mechanic so I think we did a fairly good test going up and down a few times. I have to be able to do this on my own and although there were three of us it shouldn’t be too tricky once I’ve figured out the best place to stand (inside I think). There is just about space for everything inside the van with the car in position down one side, albeit the moped sadly won’t fit next to it. There is about 700mm at the end so it will have to go across and have some bars to hold it steady, this will be one of the last jobs on the list though.

I measured up for the ally supports too that will hold the false floor up, these will have ‘v’ in them to accommodate the roll hoop as the car rolls back onto the chocs with the aerofoil unbolted (see the pic of a friend’s install). Its a tricky one as I want to mount them low down to leave as much head height in the living area as possible, but I don’t want to risk them touching the car incase they ever start to bend over time… I should have about 1.5m inside, which will be kind of funny (initially…) but I’m only 1.75m tall and not planning to spend any time in there apart from sleeping, showering, etc.