Today I ordered the steel for the trailer build. It will be delievered on Tuesday, so next week i will get on with the trailer build.

Also, i have decided, so as not to dilute the content of this blog, I'll cover the build on a separate blog. I'll post a link to it on the right of the page as soon as it's up and running. Anybody who wants to read about it taking shape and see the pics can do so there.

Another micro update!

I did indeed get a couple of hours in the garage this morning. i spent the time strpping down the front section of the wiring loom and removing reduntant wiring. All that is left now is the front lights side/dip/main/indicators/fogs, the wiring for the radiator cooling fan and it's thermostatic switch.

It's all looking a little untidy at the moment but it's coming on and I'm pleased to say that it was far less work than the rear section of the loom.

The remaining big obstacles to the wiring are the fusebox and the ABS controller. One thing at a time though...

Micro-update!

Today I have cut up the caravan floor (with a chainsaw - awesome fun!) into smaller pices that will fit in my other trailer to be taken to the dump.

My Citroen is booked in to have the towbar electrics fitted on Thursday, at which time I will also go and order the steel for the car trailer.

Hope to get an hour or two working on the race car tomorrow.

Moving on from my Huuuuuge success of starting the engine to be honest i havn'e had a lot of time in the garage since. what time i have spent in there has been further removing obsolete wiring from the donor loom. I have split the fusebox open, and hope to remove most circuits from it, well, all of them in fact and build a new, small fusebox for just the few that i do need.

One of the main reasons i haven't been in the garage is that for the second time I have gone and started a side project. regular readers will remember the old BMW 540i I resurrected which took a lot of car building time away from me. well this project is slightly different in that it is very much related to the race car build. I have bought a caravan chassis from ebay for the princely sum of £61. I collected it from wiltshire on Saturday, and it towed the 85 miles home just fine. The last couple of days have seen me stripping down the remains of caravan (the base, wheelarches and wiring) from the chassis and taking measurements so i can design a car transporter structure to build on it.

The plan is to make the whole thing a bolt together assembly, so it can be dismantled and sent to be galvanised. the caravan chassis itself is galvanised steel and shows no signs of rust at all. The resulting car transporter trailer will be used to carry the race car to the track days I plan to take it on, as it will not be road legal. It will also allow me to move the entire project to a new location if we ever sell our house. I'll post up pics of the trailer build as it progresses. I'm hoping it won't take long.

Today is another one of those big days in a kit car builders world. I got the engine started for the first time since it came out of the donor. Many thanks to the guys on the Haynes Roadster Forum for their advice and encouragement, I was tearing my hair out with this thing last night.

Here's the vid:

I had to retreat from the garage as soon as I stopped it as the smoke was getting thick, as you can see, it's pouring out of the doors.

On cloud 9 right now - WOO HOO!

Some more pics from Stoneleigh:

Here's a nice MEV Rocket. Ford RS200 replica

Royale Sabre - I really like the shape of these. Rumour has it that these will be going back into production soon.

A couple of reaaly gorgeous Marcos cars.

And an Ultima.

Here's some more pics.

This is a one off special called "Enigma". A bit wierd looking, it's running a Ford 2.9L V6 engine.


AGM WLR on the AGM stand. I really like this car, I have even considered building one next. It has a very similar chassis to mine underneath but can accept a huge range of engines. Speaking to the AGM staff, they tell me they have just been commisioned to build one with a Merceded V12!!

Tiger Aviator on the Tiger Stand. I like the wedge shaped bodywork.

An original Lotus Seven

And here is about half of my wiring loom. Now you can see what I'm really up against. The wife wasn't exactly thrilled about me spreading it all out on the living room floor!