Well, it’s cold anyway, especially in the wastelands of Mallory Park race circuit. We were racing there at the weekend, on Sunday, and I spent the Saturday morning fettling the Fury (having completely ignored it since Snetterton) and we set off for Mallory so as to arrive at about 5pm when they’d let us into the circuit. Mallory is unique in that you have to drive round the circuit (actually in the wrong direction) so as to get to the paddock. Hence, you have to queue up outside for ages. Continue reading ‘April is the cruelest month…’ »
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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.
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.
