Firstly the Fury. Adrian came over at the weekend and in between glimpsing at the GP and England’s dismal performance in the footie (the latter not being a great interest of mine, but Anthea’s from Liverpool so it’s in her genes) we started sorting out the Fury. Adrian set to sorting out the sidepod which was battered against the chassis side-impact protection and I started getting at the chassis.
Archive for the ‘Rebuilding’ Category
Compared to the recent bout of doom and despondency, this post should turn out to be slightly more upbeat.
First up I took the remains of the shattered exhaust over to Andy’s and we welded in a new cat, as seen here. (I really need to get a TIG welder…) Apparently, the cat I had is one of the earliest batch produced by the company that Andy got them from and they now weld the cat canister into the housing. (If you look hard at the photo you can see where there’s some grinding on the top of the housing, this appears to be the end result of where a hole has been drilled through the housing and then filled with weld material after the cat was inserted.)
Well, the short news is that I did make the trackday at Snetterton.
The long news is a bit more traumatic. In fact, at one point I’d decided that I was torturing myself unnecessarily and it’d be more productive to go for a sleep.
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Well, for a change it all went to schedule. I got up at some ungodly hour this morning and drove up to Leeds to get the car back from Tony Law Exhausts. Good as their word, the car was there ready for me and after parting with the readies I drove straight back home again. I got back about 1130, although I think “knackered” is absolutely the right word.
Looking a bit later on and the exhaust looks pretty good, although the header connections needed a bit of brutality to make them line up properly.
There’s not too much to talk about really as the car’s gone away. However, a few people were nagging me to update the site so here I am again.
As discussed, I took the car up to Tony Law Exhausts last Wednesday. The weather, as most readers will know if you’re not reading up on history, was horrible but Wednesday was a bit of a break in the blizzard conditions. When I left it, the chaps there were a a bit vacant about how long it was going to be. I impressed on them about the track day that’s coming up on Saturday!!!! I know other people are feeling a bit pressured, such as Adrian, but at least he’s got a car in his garage.
