The start of the race season is fast approaching, so I’ve had to spend a lot of the weekend fettling the Fury for the (J15-less) start of the season. The photo is of the end result.
Archive for the ‘Repairing’ Category
This year doesn’t seem to have been exactly peaceful on track, does it? Especially considering the catalyst debâcle that’s still rumbling on underneath RGB. That lost me the first two races of the season and it all looked as though I was going to lose another one this weekend.
I knew it was too good to last.
I took the exhaust off again and, lo and behold, the cat is showing signs of incipient degradation. It’s got a way to go yet but you can clearly see that the matrix is coming to bits and there are various clearly hot spots which are just about to block up the exhaust.
To say that I’m hacked off about this is the understatement of the geological era. There must be someone whose legs I could rip off… I had had plans to do all sorts of clever things to the car this weekend. It looks, instead, as if I’ll be welding…
I got the exhaust back on this weekend, having had to modify the mounting slightly to account for the slightly repositioned can. You can see the “bright grey” mounting at the back of this photo.
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.)
