Diagonalisation

Nothing to do with the estimable Georg Kantor or his spectacularly clever bit of mathematics that shares the name of this post, but a comment on some additional tubing in the engine mounts.

As you can see in the photo I’ve done what I said I’d do in the last post and added some tabs to which to bolt the diff support plates. Of course, that’s messed up the powder coating and I’ve had to resort to POR-15 to cover up the bare metal.

I’ve also added a couple of additional diagonals to the rear engine mount which you can also see in the photo. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while now, after noticing when the mount came back from the powder coaters that the lower tube of the engine mounts was bent. At first I thought that this was due to the heat from the powder coating but as the mount still fitted the engine perfectly I’ve come to the conclusion that it was like this before, and is just much more noticeable due to the colour.

I’ve been drawing force vector diagrams in my head for some time working out whether I needed to add these tubes but as I had to mess up the coating anyway for the diff supports I thought I’d just as well do it anyway. At least that means I can stop fretting about it.

Just imagine what it’s like inside my head, if you can. All this worry is mixed up with tons of useless knowledge including the bit of set theory mentioned at the start of this post. The post, by the way, is the 100th of the new WordPress era.

With all this done, I can hopefully get the diff mounted for a final time this coming weekend. That’ll be a relief. The problem is that the race season is approaching train-like at the moment. I just got my licence for the new year through and the first race is really only 6 weeks away, and I’m going away skiing for a week in there too. It’s increasingly clear that I have no chance getting the J15 ready for the start of the season and at some point I’m going to have to check the Fury over, which is been languishing at the side of the garage for ages now.