Red nose day

SunsetOK, I realise that I’ve been very uninformative recently although some of you may have noticed the odd posting on Facebook. As a consequence this is going to be a rather truncated posting to just give you the general idea.

In a while you will understand the relevance of that rather spectacular photo on the right, for which many thanks are due to Dan Sayles: “Afghan Dan” to his friends for reasons too bizarre to go into. He always takes a set of great photos of RGB meetings and this is one of the best. For now, though, just look at the nice picture.

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The return of the job list

Sidepod supportWell, it’s not that long since the last update and I have made some progress. I’ve been a bit spurred on by going to the RGB race at the weekend and feeling that I was missing our rather a lot. The objective now has to be to get the car ready, in whatever expedient way is possible, just to be able to go racing. I can tart it up after that. Assuming I don’t biff it of course.

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The finishing line hoves into view

Final end mouldsAlthough, to be fair, it’s still a long way away… I’ve managed to make a decent bit of progress over the long Easter weekend, the time albeit being marred by death of an old friend and being laid up with a bloody migraine. (I reckon I know what it is now, whenever I take a holiday I get cluster of migraines. Apparently that’s not uncommon.)

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Long time no see

sabre dash panel-004So, you might well wonder where I’ve been. The answer is, beavering away but not finding the time to talk about it due to all the other non-car work that’s going on. So, this is kind of a catch up post where I’ll probably spend too little time really telling you all the stuff that you’re desperate to know about.

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Onwards and upwards

Yet again, too long since the last update. I’ve just been moving forwards very slowly on many fronts so this is a sort of catching-up post.

I finished the oil cooler duct, as seen in the photo. I hope it’s going to have someĀ  effect, if it doesn’t I’ve got a couple of ideas as to how to persuade more air to do into it. It’s not particularly pretty though.

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Too much to do

Since the last meeting at Brands I’ve had a collection of things to do. You will remember that I said I’d broken my finger in the first race at the weekend. So I didĀ but it’s really rather minor. I did manage to work out a way of continuing to work on the car which involved modifying a pair of work gloves by cutting two of the fingers apart and gaffer taping them together. I was quite pleased with that, although the hospital have now unstrapped my finger and it’s floating free so these fetching gloves are now looking for a new home.

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Sunday afternoon drive

One thing I wanted to do was to improve the ducting on the inlet side of the radiator. I know from past experience that paying attention to this reaps huge benefit with respect to the cooling efficiency. First step was to bond some bits of Correx into the bonnet to constrain things slightly. If you’re not familiar with it, Correx is corrugated plastic sheet, most commonly seen as estate agent’s sign boards.

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You say aluminum, I say aluminium

As I sort of intimated last time, I was probably never going to be completely confident about the cooling system. So, I took the plunge and bought an ally radiator, exactly like the one I had in the Fury. Except cleaner. Here it is with the fan attached (with the aid of cable ties, yay!). The fan just fits which was lucky…

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Hot under the collar

Still pressing forward over here in the flatlands of East Anglia; ticking things off on the to-do list. First up this time is mirrors. I started off unsure what I was going to do, mainly because of that socking great air intake behind me. First thing though, was to fit the wing mirrors that the regs change from last year effectively now require. Here’s the driver’s side one. I must admit I don’t usually go on with these sorts of mirrors as they’re too prone to readjusting themselves. However, this time I tried to preclude this by not getting the swivel based ones so as to remove some of the degrees of freedom. My biggest worry about these at the moment is whether I can effectively see over the haunches of the rear of the car. For some reason I’m just incapable of working this out in the garage. I know that as soon as the car’s on track it’ll be dead obvious.

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