Always a good day when racecar parts arrive and allow you to sit in the car finally making vroom vroom noises! The Tillett seat is great.

Just waiting for my mind to be destroyed by the looming wiring job. For now enjoying little successes. Running big cables and hoses.

Brakes only slow you down!

Let’s make them stop ya better. Improving design.

Sharpie mounted suspension & miles of wires to start sorting out. The suspension lift kit eats up a bit of travel, making me want to understand the geometry.

Wiring fun. Reinventing the entire chassis and engine harness to fit the project goals. Quite tedious, but worth it for final product… I assume I won’t go insane.

Attaching hardware and sorting out things. Keeping the incremental progress going. Big items, radiator mounted, header mocked up, hubs and rotors investigated for wheel speed sensors.

Buckets and Pedals. The path to a cozy home of speed. Carbon fiber makes everything nicer…. or maybe that is lighter. Either way I’ve been working on stuff inside the cockpit.

Wiring, plumbing and luggage pods. Stage of build that is starting to get into many mocked up parts. Exciting time.

Making sure those on the inside are nice and cozy. Well as cozy as can be expected within this car. Cozy like Eliana in her bag sandwich

Insulation in a racecar??? Blasphemy or something like that. It is a streetcar people and I will be driving to the track and want to not go crazy.

Almost to the finish line on panels. Should be no more drilling or fitting. Only removal of tape then insert rivets.

Safety first when it comes to fuel. Upgraded with Fuel Safe.

Putting in some hardware and mocking up new brake pedal to improve pedal ratios. We shall see how this works out, so far it is promising.

From 3.3 to 4.5 (goal of 5.0)

Small progress on floor pan and getting ready for last of the riveting.

Sealing the panels and affixing them to the chassis for the rest of their days. Very happy with the final fitment and accuracy of rivets.

Yep more drilling panels and measuring stuff twice before cutting once. But big news the chassis is in a new position!!!

Making those panels fit perfectly. I do enjoy the methodic nature of this work, but am eager to get into some other stuff like suspension and wiring. Things with more margin for error…

Making those first cuts and fitments. The start of a long slow road of measure twice, think about it, measure again, think about it and finally cut a little. Eventually I’ll get comfortable.

With a bit of help from friends I’ve unlocked the chassis and let’s me start thinking about making actual progress.

Drilling holes and removing body panels. Early stages of the build.

The start of progress on my Ultima RS. Making some body panel holders.

Opening boxes!

Be excited with me

Lightweight engine blocks are sweet. Hoping this $300 purchase saves me some serious time and headaches.

When you need some extra hands to move your latest project car…invite friends over for a BBQ. More Ultima progress.

Orange Ultima RS delivered to California. Adult Lego time!

Good news everybody!

Status updates for the Ultima. Hopefully should be on a boat very soon and coming to my doorstep.