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…”
Tag: J15
Fluids
I’m not sure if it’s really true, but I feel as if I’m getting into the endgame of this build. I think that means that there’s loads of bits and pieces to do, although there’s a couple of large things that I don’t know how to do yet, notably the gearchange and the exhaust.
Here’s a small bit of progress in that I’ve got the new fuel tank. As usual, I drew it out and ordered it from Bryn Jones at Allyfab who did his usual superb job. At the top is the tank sitting in the chassis. That was a bit of a relief as I’d tried to get the tank as big as I could, but was worried that it’d come out just a little bit too big.
White stripes
Some progress again at the weekend, although whether this is enough is anyone’s guess.
First up, as I promised, are some turnbuckles to adjust the tension in the chain. Here’s one of them, although admittedly it’s hiding behind a bit of chassis. Essentially it’s a right hand threaded rod end, a left hand one, and a length of hex bar with a right hand threaded hole in one end and a left hand threaded hole in the other. You can just twiddle this around to change the distance between the two rod ends, thereby moving the diff carrier and tensioning the chain. There’s another one of these, exactly like this, on the other side of the diff. Continue reading “White stripes”
Chained up backwards
Still flushed with success from the weekend, it was back to the J15. What’s more, I’ve managed to actually do a couple of small things which is a relief. In particular I decided to finish off a couple of things at the back of the car.
Frustration
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.
Brake, turn in and…
I’ve been pressing on, although I don’t seem to be making sufficient progress to make me feel comfortable. Still, some things are happening. I have, though, managed to completely finish the hydraulic side of the braking.
So, here’s a nice shiny picture of the final arrangement of the master cylinders, lurking at the bottom of the footwell.
Snowed in
OK, I’ll admit that I’ve been a bit remiss lately, but there’s a good reason for that in that we spent last week skiing in Switzerland. Of course, that means that next to nothing got done to the car.
However, here’s a picture of a few alps as taken last week. The only problem is, I want to go skiing again; although I smashed myself up skiing a few years ago it’s still fantastic when it works right.
Four wheels on my wagon
It’d be nice to be able to move the car around in a while, so having put the rear suspension together I set about the front suspension.
Txing
Yet another odd weekend; one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward. Whatever, I haven’t accomplished what I set out to do. Ho hum.
Everything was all going so well too. I assembled the left rear suspension, using all those bearings I made a while ago, and assembled the upright using the nice shiny new driveshaft. Continue reading “Txing”
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.