Well, in the last three weeks we’ve achieved a fair bit of small but critical works, in the run up to the cars first outing at Brands next weekend.
First up I created, an actuation mechanism for the reverse system, so that I could operate it by a simple tension cable, and solenoid. I’m fairly [...]
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Finally Getting ready for Brands
So What’s been going on this winter?
After some gentle reminding, and indeed some firm poking with a sharp stick from various readers of this blog I thought I’d do an update and answer the question “What has been going on?”. Indeed even Tim has been poked on his Blog to get me to update mine … perhaps some people do pay [...]
More progress to report :-)
First up I completed the wiring for the new rainlight that is now required by this year’s regulations, OOOOh look a glowing set of LEDS that look almost identical to the last set of glowing LEDS that were fitted there. You’ll have spotted a pattern that most of my jobs are now the little things [...]
It Moves!
The car has today, moved forwards and backwards under it’s own steam. Given that I’ve pretty much completely replaced the engine, transmission, clutch & brakes you can imagine the was a pretty big moment. .An added advantage was that at no stage did it sound like a milkfloat and the engagement mechanism will not [...]