First drive of the year

I went to the inlaws (200 miles away) to pick up the spit. I had been parked there for the winter.
Car was rather dusty when I found it.

Also most of the alloy bits had suffered a bit. Blisters of alloy dust over most parts.






With the battery hooked up it started with no probs. 3 seconds of cranking and it sprung to life.


Took a nice 4 hours drive home with a quick stop for a photo




Drives as expected. Still have a fair few points I want to correct over the summer. Hopefully the MJ is going omn this year.

GT6 Rear valance

Rear valance has been in place for a while, but the small brackets for holding the fueltank and plate on the luggagearea needs to be welded to the new valance.

Here is the old top part of the valance with one of the brackets

And after a bit of slicing and welding

oops - another one

more

And another one

Thats about it for the rear valance. Result is fair. Just needs a good decking.....

BANG

New needles

Swapped needles at a clubmeeting yestersday. I have been suspecting a bit of lean running with my HS4 AAQ needles. So the went for for a pair of ABA.On paper the ABA is a bit richer, though the change isn't much noticeable.

Car stills seems to be a bit down on ooomph. Ignition is set a 6 degrees. I better sort the megajolt soon ......

The twilight zone - between bodging and destruction...

True horrors revealed. I started removing filler from the bonnet. There were a small hole which needed to be cleaned up in order to be patched. It turned out that this bonnet has been the object of severe bodging - borderline destruction.

Car has obvoiously had a front impact. The nose had been cut of another car. Not as such an entirely bad idea.

Where things go wrong is:

1: it isn't properly aligned.
2:it has been done by someone who prefers working with filler more than working with metal

So basicly thing has been put on - then beaten half to death and given a good filler- job.

Amazing thing is that it actually wasn't visible due to the amount of filler. That said - parts of the bonnet had appr. 1.5 cm's of filler.

Future plans aren't clear. We will give at a go with repairing. If it turns out to be beyond salvation we have another topplate which migt be put on instead. Though wwe prefer not to, as we kind of have other plans for that one....

Sad thing is - this bonnet is really really nice (apart from the bodge)- There is no rust in the wheelarches and everything looks OK.

Enjoy the horrors

Still alive

No updates since march. Hmm. Well - a few bits and bobs have been done.
Mostly I have been driving the Spit. It has given me 3.000 effortless kilometres this summer. It has even been flogged round a track at the club track day. Not exactly sure that it was a good idea though it was funny.... Looong story which ended up with a melted plug

Also a bit of work has been done to the GT6. Rear valance as been attacked.

Also the rear light panels were quite bashed in due to the rear-ending.

Effort to put it right has made it somewhat better. Actually as good as it gets without replacing the entire rearwing.

Removing a bodge

.... and introducing another.

My generator has been held in place by a less than pretty mix of jubilee-clips and strips. Last night I removed the old dynamobracket and replaced it with a newer one fron Canley (kindly given to me by The Mad Welder).

The original bodge - produced "en route" during Round Denmark Reliability run when the rear bolt snapped.

And here the result of the evenings work - another bodge. It appears that my generatorbolt is on the shortish side. When tightened the rear leg of the generator moves inwards. Must purchase another bolt, and shim the bracket.

On the road again - spring has sprung

What a nice (though a bit chilly) day to bring the spit out.















Got to get the idlescrew spring on the carb. Idling at 2000 RPM . Embarrasing....

There is a hole in my GT6 (and pocket)

This pretty piece of rust came out of the GT6 the other day. Bye bye rusty rearvalance.

Amazing piece of repair - car has been rearended once, and had just the middle of the rearvalance replaced

Hmm - has got BODGE written all over it




YUK

Glad it is out