Battery'd and exhausted

It has been a busy few weeks with a few events conspiring against my car building plans. An out-of-the-blue job offer led to a frantic couple of weeks getting courses and inductions done, and the purchase of some alloys to use with winter tyres for my BMW has taken a fair chunk of time as I have been refurbishing them! Anyway, enough excuses! I started trying to mount the wing mirrors. This was a bit of a task as they have a curve moulded into the base which had to be filed flat. That and the fact that the bolt holes were deeply recessed meant that achieving a secure fit was traumatic! It was sorted in the end by using a profiled drawer runner as a spacer for the mounting bolts! I then ordered the battery (online) and the exhaust bends (JP exhausts). I had to specify a 1 7/8ths 100 degree bend to fit over the fiesta downpipe and a 2" 180 bend, which neatly slips over the 1 7/8ths pipe. Then I have been making the tray to mount the battery, which conveniently fits in a location where the existing cables can be used, albeit with different terminals. This now needs welding and mounting.