Busy Weekend

Between us we spent around 12 hours in the Garage this weekend, but not all of this was working on the car. Some three hours this afternoon was spent pretending to work on it while a photographer with a van load of kit took over 400 photos to go with some profile piece about Tim in some newspaper (now that should get the mickey taken out of him at work!)

Anyway the rest of the time we did actually make some progress. Chrissy finished off the battery tray and refitted it (yet again).

Tim spent an unexciting 30 minutes feeding one grommet over numerous connectors from the ECU loom (it didn't look possible, but a friend from the WSCC had emailed saying it was possible and just that info was remarkably useful - thanks Tony). We have decided, like Tony, to route the ECU cable through the scuttle rather than down the transmission tunnel for a whole variety of reasons.

We have made some major progress on the cooling system and have fitted most of the hoses, in a couple of cases we had to put the hose in hot water to let it expand a bit but generally it was OK. One exception was when putting a lot of force on one of the metal pipes to push it in to some rubber hose it suddenly went in about 10cm i.e. far too far so we then had to spend about half an hour getting it out again!

We have also cut and mostly fitted the front fuel hoses onto the injection tubes, but have run out of the right size jubilee clips so that job will have to wait a little while.

Have run into a few problems (e.g. there is one loop connector whoch says ' chassis earth' but is miles away from anywhere suitable to earth it) and also haven't got a big enough spanner to do up the thermostat switch on the rad. The final and most serious problem is that we (well Tim) has failed to tap out a suitable thread in the radiator overflow pipe - the purpose of the thread is to block it up as it is not used. (Have to phone Mark at the factory tomorrow)

Here is a pic of some of the pipework...