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 tagged Painting
Finally Getting ready for Brands
Avoiding the Cowpats!
If I may quote Edmund Blackadder “The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the Devils’s own satanic herd!”. Well the path of this respray seems to have been long and arduous and indeed strewn waist deep with steaming piles of demonic manure!
However today, for once I avoided sinking knee deep in [...]
Rapidly Running out of Time :-(
Well we are now only 6 days or so away from the first outing at Snetterton and the liberal “flump” of snow delivered to Eastern England has really screwed my timetable up. At some times this week I couldn’t even get out of the house to collect some new more high build primer, let alone [...]
Some Other Stuff & Some Moore Paint
Duncan and I cracked on today in a bid to get the car ready for the test at Snett which is now just 13d 13h and 13 minutes away.
We got a fair few sundry items ticked off the to-do list. These included
Tension chain
Empty exhaust ready for repacking
Duncan made and fitted both the main front floor [...]
On The Subject of Paint
As you can see from the index picture below, I’ve cracked on and got the rear bodywork done. In fairness it looks a whole lot better than it did before I started but to be honest I right royally screwed up spraying the lacquer coat. 1 coat lacquer is a bit tricky to get [...]
Painting the Front Bodywork
Today Duncan and I did, lots of fill, sand, stopper, flat back, topcoat 1, topcoat 2, and gloss coat. We have no fingerprints left the air is filled with the heady scent of paint.
But we have created this! Now be aware that the colour is slightly darker than reality as my camera’s relation to the [...]
Time to Start Chucking Paint Around
This entry is in reverse order, as I wanted to use this rather spiffing pic of the newly painted airbox.
As I said before I’m trying to get the car to be all one colour this season, (I take a bit of good humored stick for turning up to race looking like an old for Cortina [...]
She runs … but didn’t stop :-(
This Saturday saw a number of activities come to fruition.
Firstly we finished the cooling system and fitted a new fan that I had bought off ebay. The new fan is a full half a kilo lighter than the old fan, and it’s easier to mount. The CBr1000rr has an ECU controlled fan which starts the fan [...]