Archive for April, 2010

I seem to have nadgered my knee and while I wait for it to get better (things like this usually do) or the booked appointment with an orthopod arrives I’ve been trying not to clamber around the car too energetically. Hence, I’ve made a fairly determined start on the wiring.

Continue reading ‘Lots of pretty colours’ »

Last weekend was another race meeting, this time at Brands Hatch. (As usual, the Indy circuit. I’ve still never even walked around the GP circuit. One day…)

So, I got the Fury dusted down, I even spent a while doing a nut and bolt check, before going to Brands on Thursday evening. The weather forecast was, for a change, actually quite good so hopefully I wouldn’t be spending the weekend in a confusion about whether to change the wheels, adjust the ARBs, and so on.

By the way, before you complain, my apologies for the lack of video/photos here. I bought a new video recorder (one of these) and the camera is rubbish, generating a truly gruesome vertical vibration. With luck someone will have taken some photos and I can decorate this post later.

Continue reading ‘Hatching plans’ »

Thanks heavens for that! I’ve finally finished all the panelling. That is, I’ve finished off the pedal box cover which is as shown in the photo.

Continue reading ‘Symphony in Al flat’ »

Well, there’s a bit more progress to tell you about. First of, the panelling is almost completed. The first part of this was putting the seat backs in place, as seen in the photo on the right. These are actually held in with rivnuts, as I reckon being able to remove them will be quite useful, for example for getting at the exhaust.

Continue reading ‘Backs to the wall’ »

Back on the J15 front things have moved on a bit and I’m planning on lots of progress over the next few days. :) A lot of the recent progress has been about the cooling system which is now actually completely finished. Well, apart from filling it up and discovering all the bits that leak, that is.

Continue reading ‘Cooling a fevered J15’ »