Building, racing, crashing race cars with the 750 Motor Club
Two quick things about dampers.
As the super-duper dampers supposedly being built by my friend Dave have never appeared, as it was becoming increasingly apparently that there’s no point relying on something made out of vapour and wishes I finally decided to go elsewhere.
Well, I suppose it couldn’t last. After ignoring the Fury all season it finally had a bad race.
Last weekend we went down to Brands Hatch, again, for a two day, two race, weekend. What’s more, our race on the Sunday was quite early so I was hoping to get home to get on with the J15. I should know not to think like that…
Finished what? Well, just a moment and I’ll tell you. Up first, though, is a riveting photo of a wheel and tyre. This is a new A048R mounted on one of the wheels that I bought from Compomotive a while ago. I know it looks just like one of the Fury wheels but it’s got a different offset. When I took the car to Andy’s I had real trouble getting it on the trailer because the different offset of the Fury wheels I was using at the time meant that that track was 38mm wider than it should be.
Sorry, I’ve been a bit busy the past few days to update the site. However, I’m back again now to blether on about things for a while.
Most importantly, I got stuck in on the bodywork while there was a bit of space in the garage. So, there’s been rather a paroxysm of filling, rubbing down, priming, flatting and spraying going on. And, of course, the house smells of cellulose.
The garage is all empty, now the car’s up at Andy’s having its exhaust fitted. OK, there’s still a Fury there but I’m ignoring that.
However, that gave me a chance to tidy the place up a bit and then set about messing it up again.
No photo, but it’s interesting so I thought I’d post something. I sorted the car out to take it to Andy’s to make an exhaust system this evening. With it on the ground, I flicked up the reverse switch and it moved backwards all under its own power. Not that there was very much of that, I suspect the battery wouldn’t last very long without the engine running.
All the same, seems a fun milestone.
Some experimentation shows that there is a problem with air in the master cylinders not getting out of the exit ports. I had a peek down the inside of the master cylinder I’d nadgered and indeed the exit port is a pretty small hole at the top of the cylinder. Experimentally, I loosened off a couple of the master cylinders and jammed it in in a horizontal position, as in the photo.
I trimmed down the dash a bit and mounted the instruments, so far as they go, to the smaller plate; here it is. The space on the right is for the Palm. Traditionally, I put this on the left but the gearchange actuation lever is in the way. I might change the software slightly so as to move the gear indication to the left of the display, although it might not be necessary.
After musing for some considerable time, I decided that I was never going to like the other gearchange and I’d just have to make my own again. So I did, and here it is. It’s essentially a reworking of the one I made for the Fury, albeit reworked for 2010. Specifically as I’ve now got a lathe some bits are rather easier to do.
Hmmm, I seem to have spent a lot of time in the garage recently, albeit hobbling around rather. But, I don’t seem to have made too much progress, and have made at least one rather backward step.
First up, though, is a bit more progress on the electrics. In fact, I’ve just about got it all finished now. For example, I’ve now got all the sensors on the engine such as the oil pressure/switch in the photo here.