Looks great fun, and definitely enjoying the read even if there's little I can comment on. 

Time to upload a video of it in action.

Time to upload a video of it in action.

YES !   

Soon, needs another roadtrip on the trailer yet.

Looks pretty good at night on trips actually:

https://youtu.be/QKck4tLnvyU

Keeping it out of boost as just swapped the stock injectors for some ID1050's so it needs dyno time for the fuelling and ignition, so nothing too fast yet, but you wanted to see it move.

 

So, had a small issue yesterday - the alternator suddenly decided to stop charging properly, it'd sit at 11.8v at idle and 13.7v if you revved the engine - then hold 12.1-12.2 after that.

Which makes you think the regulator is shot right?
Only downside, it's pretty much a brand new alternator, but it's been on the car so long it's out of warranty.
  You know what it's like here, if I can unbolt it I'll try fixing it, after a lot of swearing and hammering splitting the casing open I found the fault - two dry solder joints, great quality control there! Seems like the regulator was okay it'd just gone into a failsafe mode.



So, a bit of desoldering, cleaning and resoldering later, and a clean and check of the slip rings and brushes (and some grease in the rear bearing which was completely dry so I don't have to beat the casing for 2 hours to get it apart next time) and it was back together and holding a rock solid 14.1-14.2v even at idle.
Which is good considering it's underdriven to stop it going pop.



Way more stable than it was before so I guess it had the fault from day one and eventually just cracked out.

Windscreen is finished and nicely bonded in now, as is the GPS antenna and accelerometers for g-forces and inertial positioning (little black box on the roof)



Took it for a run and it's so much quieter with the windscreen bonded in, who'd have thought?

Excellent fun way to check if all the nuts and bolts are correctly tightened.

Bet its quite tiring bouncing along a course like that.

Oh yes, 2 days of that my back and kidneys were killing me

https://youtu.be/OKccfW9y0Pw

https://youtu.be/_iTxwE2DVzE

https://youtu.be/kS77x0uF6BY

Nice on up against all the 4x4 entries.

Trip to Tiverton after some mods to the front end, car feels far better now.

https://youtu.be/y7HSDjG7Lo8