Wales on a nice day looks similar to Scotland, just warmer and drier .
Ttfn Glenn

Been rerouting some piping, along with some other changes the eagle eyed might notice - basically the hoses were a little close to hot spots for comfort, even with heat shielding, mainly because they'd been made few mm long by the supplier but with such short, wide hoses getting rid of the extra length means you end up routing at quite an angle into some of the fittings, and it also meant the dry sump belt was difficult to access - not something you want in the field!
Anyway, chances are the hoses would have been fine but after this amount of time an oil fire is not the way you wish to discover that they weren't!

Anyway, that knocked on to shifting a few bits and pieces (exhaust relocated by removing the right support tube, and  shuffling of the oil filter mainly) and then it meant remaking panels that were already done, doh - nearly there though, coming together at last:





A lot of the fuel pipe and wiring harness has been mounted properly and routed through padded clips and heatshielding too, time consuming but again, wearing a fuel hose or a chunky piece of loom against an edge or letting the vibrations fatigue fittings and crimps also bites you in the arse pretty hard for couple of days of tidying work....

Quick snapshot as was just ticking over for 20s at a time to find leaks - haven't even tried to dial n the timing or fuel yet, just on my base map, as the throttle pot is duff so couldn't see the point, will order another tommorow - found plenty of leaks mind, as you can hear from the various whistling noises. Anyway, it's alive!

https://youtu.be/0hbO0Kr1pdw

Always satisying doing the first start up and it running after many alterations, the fine tuning can then commence.

Yep, little better vid here after sorting the TPS out, still have the whisting vacuum leak mind, and for some reason the camera seems to pick up that and nothing else:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ku7sU_e-8mA

Happy New Year! 

Your dog seems to love it 

He's checking the fuelling. Said it was running a bit ruff.



















So we decided to fix it today.



Might have gone overboard.

So you got a jigsaw puzzle for Christmas
Ttfn Glenn

Is the dog a lambada the way he performs with exhaust gas.

Perhaps you're dog is jumping for joy coz you're gonna WINALOT 

Oh god. First joke of 2016 and it was that.

How do I delete my account?

Oh god. First joke of 2016 and it was that.

How do I delete my account?

We need to see the buggy in action before you leave, that's if you could tear yourself away

Good point.....how do I delete Speedy's account? 

Anyhow - the old 5-piece riveted and glued roofskin is now a lighter, welded single piece effort. Much cursing and hammering was heard in the process. Sounded easier than it was, ripples all over the place to start with, got there in the end, needs a tickle to the right side is all.

Good point.....how do I delete Speedy's account? 

I think you may be Barking up the wrong tree with that request   

J Admin

Hey PhillipM
Joking aside I know how much works involved building kit from scratch and then having to remake bespoke parts allover again coz you have bent it. Nobody sees all the work that goes in pre event.

Are James Webb and Chris Hammond still racing two guys I new from years back when I was stage rallying?