Chassis Progress

The last couple of weeks have been mostly spent fettling the chassis, grinding welds down where required and reworking some of the dodgier looking welds.
The chassis is getting close to being ready for painting now, and last week I purchased the paint to spur me on - a 2l pack of Epoxy Mastic 121 from www.rust.co.uk.
Last week I also added plates for the handbrake cable stop, and diff front mount.  I'm still not 100% sure how I'm going to mount the front of the diff, but the 6mm plate I added should give me a few options.

A while ago I applied for a VIN number from my local DVLA office.  One of the members on the Haynes forum very kindly machined it into a strip of 3mm steel for me:

I cut the front out of one of the chassis members (U6), and welded the plate in flush, then ground/sanded the edges down to blend it in:

Radiator Brackets

Just a quick pic of the mounting points I added to the front of the chassis to mount the radiator on:

The radiator in question is from a 1983-1990 VW Polo.  It has two 'pegs' in the bottom that will sit in the two lower brackets.
At the top I will make two brackets that will fix to the front of the rad, then wrap around and bolt to the two little plates I added at the top of the front frame.

Seat Rails Revisited

A while back I welded some box section rails into the chassis to mount my seat runners / seats on.
Last night I added some crush tubes to prevent them, well crushing, and to keep the IVA man happy.
I got hold of a length of steel tube with an inside diameter of ~9.5mm (which is a nice fit for the M8 seat bolts) and a wall thickness of ~1.5mm.
I widened the holes in the rails out to 14mm, then put a section of the tube through each one, and fully welded them either side:

I then ground them flat to the chassis rails on both sides:

Quick Update

No pics I'm afraid, but just a few notes on what I've been doing lately.
Tonight I removed the engine from the chassis now I have the mounts and steering sorted.
I've also removed everything from the frame except the diff (I still need to figure out the front diff mount).
Recently I've added some brackets to the chassis for the radiator, tacked the propshaft together at a suitable length, and added some extra bracing to the engine bay.