Happy New Year - What do you mean its the 14th!

Sorry for the delay in an update I'm sure lots of you were sitting with baited breath waiting for my words.

So whats occured, I have broken the wire speed control on my welder, tried to be a clever sod and solder a new speed pot to it only to discover it didn't help, £69 later and a new PCB is sitting in my kitchen waiting to be fitted (only arrived yesterday)

My parts from 3GE have arrived for my top harness mounts and in preparation to fit them i discovered that my 3 point harness may no longer be IVA safe! so were watching this space atm to see if another £100 needs spending on harnesses or if I can sweet talk CBS into allowing me to return them.

what else, hmmmm Ive fitted the 40 Dcoe webbers and discovered to avoid cutting the bonnet I will indeed need t fit some trumpets as opposed the the currently fitted filters.
Oh and as per usual fitting them was no straight forward job either as a part of the linkage was too short for the manifold and had to be replaced at the great cost of £12, thanks to Steve at Northampton motor sport for sourcing that 'orrible little part for me.

Due to a nice little cheque from the IRS I have placed an order with SSC for my cycle wing stays and interior aluminum panels.

Ive spend £42 on rubber edging trim from the bonnet, cycle wings, and panel holes from CBS, good quality stuff too and super fast delivery.

and a sheet of 2mx1mx1.5mm alu has been ordered for the rear panel, this should arrive next Friday with any luck.

another £12 went on a coolant switch for the rad fan. these little bits really do add up.

New rear up rights have arrived and been duly painted, but i think I may have damaged a CV joint so more on that next update,


Plans for this weekend are as follows:

Repair welder, tackweld M8 washers every 80mm down the transmission tunnel for the wiring loom to be secured to.
paint said washers, finalise position of scuttle by fitting rubber trim to nose and scuttle then temp fitting bonnet. secure scuttle with 4 rivnuts.
remove damaged driveshaft and inspect.
make up brake pipe for rear
fit from brakes
fit rear brakes


however the reality of it is that I'm on call this weekend so I doubt more than 1 or two small jobs will be completed.