Painting the spaceframe!

I spent a lot of time the weekend before last with my devoted Fiancee, sanding down the frame to remove all the surface rust that has built up. We then painted it with a red oxide primer just to prevent any further oxidation occurring. Although not complete it was nice to gain an insight into what it could look like in a finished state...





I've also stripped down the Audi engine to make sure all is ok internally and to see if there was anything I could leave off during installation into the chassis. It was interesting to see how advanced the engine is. It has a crank scraper, oil drains from the valley routed back the oil pump and a sump interface casting that I have found I will be able to remove completely, fabricating my own dry-sump system and losing around 40/50mm in engine height!