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Quinten's Mighty Blog

A blog by Quinten in General

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How much money can you plough into a car before the wife complains.

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January 2017

January 3rd, 2017 Spend: £10.00 Visited local welding place Bucks Welding & Fabrication who welded a larger metal plate on the bottom of the mount so there is a better surface cover. January 7th, 2017 Spend: £6.98 Back to the engine mount. This time armed with some additional aluminium spacers I fixed the pedestal into its final location. The engine is mounted! Now concentrating on the exhaust. Started wit

January 31, 2017

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December 2016

December 5th, 2016 Spend: £17.26 Refitted the high level brake light and roll bar back onto the car. Also connected up the high level brake light to wiring loom and tested it to make sure it has never have to come off again December 9th, 2016 Spend: £923.00 Got a message from @windy at the beginning of the week telling my that my gearbox and diff were ready and were being dropped off at @Marto303's on Thursday. So quickly arranged wit

December 31, 2016

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November 2016

November 5th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Got the roll bar off using some heat to soften the glue and a putty knife to wedge in between bar plate and body work. Then started to work on the new carbon boot sides. Once I got the holes right, the rest was just fine tuning. Now just the filler itself to do, but I will wait until I've been to the welder to see what is possible November 6th, 2016 Spend: £28.98 Fixed the brake li

November 30, 2016

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October 2016

October 1st, 2016 Spend: £1500.00 What's the best way to speed up the Mighty Crossflow? You replace it with a Zetec I bought this last month from another WSCC member after he took me out in his car with this engine in it. Complete with ECU, manifold and as much ancillaries as he could spare. 180BHP on the Northampton Motorsport rollers. October 2nd, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Cleaned up the garage and moved stuff about so

October 31, 2016

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September 2016

September 30th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Bye bye dearest Last month: £ 2312.52 This month: £ 0.00 ----------+ Total: £ 2312.52

September 30, 2016

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June 2016

June 18th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Cleaning the car for its attendance tomorrow at the Earls Barton Classic Car breakfast meet, I snapped my centre mirror off Only had it for a month, so sent a snotty email to Car Builder Solution to see what they can do. June 19th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Got up early with Q-jr Met up with Richard and Chris Drove for a bit picking up Mark and Jim on the

June 30, 2016

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May 2016

May 1st, 2016 Sold: £20.00 The annual pilgrimage to the spiritual home of the kit car... Stoneleigh! Organised a small convoy with the Northants members Photo courtesy of Mark Russel of Carbon-NV fame and when we arrived there, I was told to park it at the front of the Westfield Avenue Managed to sell my old mirrors, but gave the cycle wings and harness to the club to sell, hopefully raising some money for the WSCC support

May 31, 2016

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April 2016

April 2nd, 2016 Spend: £2.25 On recommendation of the forums added a little bit of storage capacity to the car and then spend the afternoon cleaning the first month of driving off the car again April 10th, 2016 Spend: £4.95 Saw this in one of the old Westfield World magazines so a while back when we happen to visit our local Ikea, I bought a FLÖRT. With a little bit of help o

April 30, 2016

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March 2016

March 11th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Dotting i's and crossing t's. Fixed the issue with the shift light and applied some Sikaflex to the DRLs in the cycle wings. And then went for the first spin this year! I would have video footage to proof it, but my son pressed the record button twice instead of once, recording a still of his hand in front of the camera and nothing else March 12th, 2016 Spend: £9.96 Swapped my scuttle bolts/nuts over

March 31, 2016

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February 2016

February 7th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Armed with white spirit, brake cleaner, cloths and wire brushes attacked all the nooks and crannies to make it as clean as possible. I'm changing plans slightly; originally I was going to use carpet glue to stick the carpets down, which requires a very clean surface, but now I think I will be using Sikaflex instead as it would provide the same bond, but is a lot more forgiving on the surface prep. Next step, making carpet

February 29, 2016

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January 2016

January 17th, 2016 Spend: £0.00 Decided to finally make a start with the winter upgrades although the temperature outside made it not very pleasant. As I'll be fitting (finally!) some carpets I stripped the car of it's interior and scuttle to allow for decent access. Ready for the next step; cleaning up the accumulation of oil, grime and grit. Last month: £ 2122.67 This month: £ 0.00 ----------+

January 31, 2016

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October 2015

October 29th, 2015 Spend: £0 Seeing as the weather looks to be wet and miserable I'm putting my sensible head on and put the car on SORN. Gives me plenty of time to fit those winter upgrades I've been collecting October 31st, 2015 Spend: £0 And so the story ends for the year... To serve as a little reminder to myself, a little video I recorded earlier this month Last month: £ 2122.67 This month: £ 0.

October 31, 2015

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September 2015

September 6th, 2015 Spend: £25.00 Julie kindly organised a (very) small group buy on a stainless steel laser cut Westfield badge and today I fitted mine. September 13th, 2015 Spend: £0.00 Another weekend spend to investigate why the DRLs switch off with the engine running. Have taken the brave pill and partly rewired everything so that I can access the fuses easier when the scuttle is on. Also rewired the indicator/hazard circuit, but th

September 30, 2015

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August 2015

August 1st, 2015 Spend: £9.03 Fabricated a muselet which should hopefully prevent the filler cap from popping off again. August 2nd, 2015 Spend: £1.99 Continued with fitting the DRLs and after testing it over and over again put the dash back in (had it off as much as I could without removing steering wheel) and tightened the scuttle back discovered that the DRLs would go off as soon as I started the engine... Grrr! Too late in the day to

August 31, 2015

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July 2015

July 4th, 2015 Spend: £59.00 Saw these lights a while back, but could not find them anywhere for sale other than Australia. Luck would have it that one of my friends has moved there and happened to have his dad over for holidays. Had them delivered to his place and then smuggled back to the UK in his dads suitcase. They are slightly to big for the arches, so some careful cutting/sanding with a Dremel saw them fit as well as they can.

July 31, 2015

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June 2015

June 4th, 2015 Spend: £3.17 First the fuse had blown on the starter button (my own design, so my own fault), then for further humiliation I had to pay £3.17 for an assortment of replacement fuses and even then the car would just about start again. Later at home discarded the fuse on the starter and it shows all the signs of a starter that is on the way out. June 7th, 2015 Spend: £0 Put the car on stands to have a good look at the starter in case I ne

June 30, 2015

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May 2015

May 3rd, 2015 Sold: £75.50 The annual kit car show at Stoneleigh! Packed the car with stuff that I no longer have a use for and after some creative use of straps it is surprising the amount of stuff you can take with you But, the great English weather being what it is, changed for the worst and although we've had lovely weather in the weeks leading to it, the day starts off with heavy rain It dried up on the way in and by the t

May 31, 2015

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April 2015

April 8th, 2015 Spend: £0 The day of the dreaded MOT. I say dreaded, because it is the first one in my ownership, and who knows what kind of relationship the previous owner had with his MOT guy. Thankfully it passed, with some recommendations on things that should really be sorted out when I get the chance: - Leaking gearbox (small drop, but still) - OSR axle leaking grease (needs new halfshafts/seals) - Front braided brake lines chaffing on th

April 30, 2015

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March 2015

March 1st, 2015 Spend: £0 Julian from Aerodynamix had given me a small strip of carbon at last years Stoneleigh show and today I can finally make some use out of it. So transfer the shape and go at it with the Dremel March 6th, 2015 Spend: £54.54 Received my QR today and after a fiddly hour or so got it all assembled March 7th, 2015 Spend: £219.54 Bought some

March 31, 2015

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February 2015

February 8th, 2015 Spend: £48.57 That should be it for now. Next week the dash! February 13th, 2015 Spend: £18.96 Took a few days off for family commitments and ramping up the pace as the 1st of March deadline is looming. Marked the gauge locations on the dash and then out comes the hole saw. Gauges fitted February 14th, 2015 Spend: £4.18 More wi

February 28, 2015

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January 2015

January 17th, 2015 Spend: £29.35 After a very docile December month, we're finally getting into the 'spend a weekend in the garage' routine that I need in order to get the car back on the road on the 1st of March (this year!). We're starting off with a piece of dashboard off-cut that will serve as a holder for the relays and fuses. I've had to order some more relays now I also have got my wiring diagrams done. January 24th, 2015 Sp

January 31, 2015

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December 2014

December 31st, 2014 Spend: £111.92 Santa brought me a few presents, but that's pretty much it for this month. No progress made at all on the car Last month: £ 873.50 This month: £ 111.92 ----------+ Total: £ 985.42

December 31, 2014

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November 2014

November 2nd, 2014 Spend: £0 Now the dash is removed, I need to untangle the wiring mess. After recommendation on the forums I also removed the scuttle. It makes access so much easier. November 16th, 2014 Spend: £5.55 Finally had the courage to tap the 5/16th UNC thread in the exhaust manifold and I shouldn't have been so worried. Turned out to be very easy November 22nd, 2014 Spend: £144.96

November 30, 2014

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October 2014

October 12th, 2014 Spend: £40 I picked up a new silencer from BCF back in September which he had on his Crossflow to replace my battered example, but luck is not on my side as the link pipe on the new exhaust is different to mine and it won't clear the bodywork. Ok, I'll remove the exhaust manifold then so I can clean it up and wrap it with some heatwrap... Wrong! The bolts where pretty rusty and sure enough, one of the bolts rounded off so I had to reso

October 31, 2014

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September 2014

September 2nd, 2014 Spend: £85 A job originally planned to happen before Stoneleigh, but due to a sign shop messing me about I only got around at doing today. The kind folks at Sign Wizzard in Aylesbury added at least 10 BHP . September 6th, 2014 Spend: £17 And now the racing stripe is on, I can also finally fit the smaller number plate I bought ages ago. September 16th, 2014 Spend: £43 With the

September 30, 2014

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