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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Winter 2009 Rebuild category.
Finally Getting ready for Brands
Blimey. Never done that before!
Ok there’s been a fair bit of progress since the last post, following the succesful test of the cooling system last time round I decided that I probably no longer need a manual fan override, and that I should just probably rely on a thermostatic switch to kick the fans in and out at say [...]
WhoHoo! She Rolls and Runs :-)
I’ve made great progress today.
First up was the lefthand, side pod duct. this was still only roughly trimmed to remove the rough edges from the moulding process, so it needed trimming to fit around the radiators at the back, and the suspension mounts at the front. this takes ages to do, as you want to [...]
Close to running her up now.
Ooh, getting close to starting her now.
Much progress was made last week, the oil cooler has now been positioned next to the left hand radiator, and the oil lines appropriately rerouted, thus completing the oil circuit. This, only occurred after my customary clumsiness had seen me knock over container holding ¾ litre of engine oil [...]
Ok Lets Get back in the Game
Right, Firstly I seem to have fixed (or at least circumvented) the image loading issues with Wordpress, so I can get back in the game of updating this blog apologies for the interrupted service of late.
Secondly and more importantly watching the fist two races of the RGB season from the side of the track hasn’t [...]
Apologies
Sorry for no posts for a while, I have a whole stack of content to place on the site (including some old content relating to painting the car requested by the guys at Piston Heads)
But after a recent code update, I’m currently having difficulty getting Wordpress to upload images successfully. The infamous HTTP error [...]
Fitting up the new floors
With both floors and side channels now made, it is time to fit them to the car. So we postioned the car on the stands, and started fitting things together.
At the rear this involved reworking the radiator mounts, as the rads sit on the floor. We made the decision to actually use the radiator to [...]
Old Engine Strip
I’ve spent a few hours stripping all of the usuable parts out of my engine that went boom last year. As usual I’m both hugely surprised that these little engines stay together under the sort of loads we put on them, and be very impressed with the quality of the engineering.
Overall, apart from the casings, [...]