Friday, October 06, 2006

OOOppppppss - too long, too long!

OK. Been a little bit busy so nothing for a while ( online anyway ). The Alfa, 2000 and 2500s are all outside my place at this minute. The DS has been moved and welding on the rear rain channels/wing hangers and outer sills has started. This will be a loooong process as god know what I'll find under there.
The Triumphs are looking anything but triumphant. Solenoid and start motor to be ordered ( later today ) for the MK1. Not a happy bunny and letting me know in no uncertain terms it ain't gonna shift unless I show it some luuurrrve......
MK2 2500S - all the goodies are lined up and ready to fit - so over the next few weeks she'll be re-bushed, re-shod and re-engineered altogether. Welding near as dammit finished - took her around the block as she's now a whole car again. Girlfriend jumped in to show moral support ( she loves the cars too ) - second corner and she was almost in the back seat. I'd forgotten to tighten down the seat after replacing the passenger floorpan - she saw th efunny side of it so I survived with minor bruising........
Reminds me of a friend - he works for a major player in suspension and auto acoustics ( sub-contractor for Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Mercedes ) you name 'em they deal with 'em. ANYWAY, they had a new S2000 in for testing, stripped it and measured whatever they measure.... gave it to the local Honda bad-boy garage to put ack together as they were too busy. He drove it back to the workshop via a 'shakedown' - which is what it turned out to be. THe whole car vibrated enough to threaten his fillings....... on return to their ( totally excellent ) workshop and up on their carlift - the whole of the suspension was in danger of dropping clean from the car - local YTS boy hadn't tightened a SINGLE THING!!!! He was lucky the run was so short - or he'd have lost the entire front end in one go....... needles to say one bill not being paid!

I'm off to skim welded panels, rub down surface rust and strip mechanical gubbins....... I love that part!