This is the fuel tank in place

Hi all
Spencer and myself have had a great time at a drift event in the car park at Wembley stadium.
Here you can see our tyre fitting van in the pits just outside the stadium, we were changing tyres all day for the people racing in the drift event.
Some drivers could wear out a set of rear tyres in about 10 minutes so we were very busy all day.

Spencer had a go of course and managed to finish last of all. This is him with smoke pouring off the rear tyres

Hi all

We have been very busy at work but have still managed to do a little work on the car.

It is now at the rolling chassis stage and the fuel tank is fitted.

All the wheels will have to come off again, at the front the brakes need to be fitted and the suspension setup correctly. At the rear the drive shafts need new boots and the brake back plates need cleaning and the shoes, cylinders and drums need to be fitted.

The reason the suspension has been fitted is to allow the engine/gearbox to be installed.

As soon as this is done all the other parts can be fitted around the engine bay, and the steering shaft made up.

Here are our new wheels and tyres.

The brake disc's are not fitted yet so the wheels

look a little close to the wing supports, but when

the disc's are in place the wheels will sit about 10 mm further away from the supports.

We are now getting the front suspension together so the wheels can be fitted .

It all went together very well

As you can see Spencer has finally fitted the diff into the chassis.

It only took him 2 days of lifting,pushing and pulling to get it in place.

He had to take a day off as he was completely worn out.

He also painted it a shiny silver colour.

Hi all

More and more is now getting done on the car as you can see.

We have test fitted the steering column and brake master cylinder.

Hi all
A lot has happened in the last few weeks and I will do a more complete update
over the weekend, but just to let you all know that the build is still going on

Baxter T Bear

Its getting more and more like a racing car every day!!!!

This is the side panel being fitted.

We have to test fit the panels to ensure they line up correctly before Spencer bonds them in place.

Here is Spencer putting a side infill panel in place

He then bent the tabs you can see down, ready to meet the rear top panel when it is fitted.

Spencer is pointing out to me the extra strong mountings for the diff at the rear of our car.

He has spent a long time designing these mountings on the computer at nasa where he works.

They will hold the differental in place as we race around the race track at top speed.

Here we are hard at work on the propshaft panels.

This shows some of the propshaft panels as well as the rear of ths seat back and our new fuel tank!

Spencer has bonded the panels on and I pop rivet them in place. teamwork!!

Here are some pictures of the panels beening fitted to our car.

This is the seat back panel.

Here we all are at our christmas party

Spencer has also painted the suspension parts in black.

He used a special bare metal primer and a top coat of

garage door paint.

Here's Spencer just after the paint removal.

All the rubbing has made his feet swell up, but does'nt he have great new shoes.

As you can see we have now got the chassis painted in the top coat of blue.

Spencer did all the spray painting and he did a

FANTASTIC job!!!.

At the moment Spencer is having all the paint removed from his fur. He had a little accident when painting but its not much too worry about.

He has had a little bit shaved off but don't mention it to him next time you see him as he's sensitive about it!.