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I have started to make some progress in getting my Marlin built and road legal here in NZ
It's a Marina based kit originally made in 1995 and has never been completed
The NZ Certification process is quite sensible but I did have to make some changes
The certifier was not too keen on the folded steel floor - neither was I
The seat belt mounts - the shoulder and the inside corners also got the shitty eye
I don't need a rear roll bar - but I do need the fixings for one
The specs here call for a triangulated brace between the chassis rails
So I have replaced the seat belt mounts with a more substantial pair of tubes with braces across the car and back to the chassis rails
I have made a framework for the floor - including the brace
I did NOT like the way a Marina pedal box was used with a horrible afterthought additional brace
In order to make this easy I made a "rotisserie"
This turned out to be dead easy! - I had an engine build stand - I just made it a bit taller and horizontal for one end and I added an extra rectangular tube with a hole in it to my engine hoist - works really well
I have started to make some progress in getting my Marlin built and road legal here in NZ
It's a Marina based kit originally made in 1995 and has never been completed
The NZ Certification process is quite sensible but I did have to make some changes
The certifier was not too keen on the folded steel floor - neither was I
The seat belt mounts - the shoulder and the inside corners also got the shitty eye
I don't need a rear roll bar - but I do need the fixings for one
The specs here call for a triangulated brace between the chassis rails
So I have replaced the seat belt mounts with a more substantial pair of tubes with braces across the car and back to the chassis rails
I have made a framework for the floor - including the brace
I did NOT like the way a Marina pedal box was used with a horrible afterthought additional brace
In order to make this easy I made a "rotisserie"
This turned out to be dead easy! - I had an engine build stand - I just made it a bit taller and horizontal for one end and I added an extra rectangular tube with a hole in it to my engine hoist - works really well
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