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

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March 2018

March 16th, 2018 Spend: £997.40   I picked up my engine from Jody (JA Kit and Customs) today!  Complete checked over, and with most parts replaced she almost looks like she just rolled off the factory floor.     March 17th, 2018 Spend: £0.00   With the Beast from the East making a return the conditions outside and in the garage are awful.  But I'm determined to not let it spoil my rekindling with the Westfield!  Ensured the gearbox input shaft a
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March 2017

March 3rd, 2017 Spend: £47.04   My boss told me to take days off or loose them at the end of the month (we can only carry 10 days over, and I've got 15 left), so today was a day off and spend in the garage.  Fitted some more Mikalor clamps and other minor bits that arrived during the week.  And then started on the big job ahead...  the electrics.  Managed to finish the exhaust side, although I am still some connectors short, but the wires are all in.   March 4th, 2017
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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
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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
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June 2020

June 2nd, 2020 Spend: £0.00   First (official) drive!  Can't believe how nice the weather has been this year whilst we were in total lockdown.  Couldn't drive it yesterday as I had to be in London to renew a passport, but I had a little sneaky 40 mile detour around Northamptonshire after work today.  It's good to be back!          June 13th, 2020 Spend: £0.00     And then the weather turned bad .   But this weekend it's been
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June 2019

June 2nd, 2019 Spend: £18.45   Too hot this weekend to do anything on the car, but did manage to spend 5 minutes replacing the coolant sensor in the thermostat housing that is connected to the ECU.   June 6th, 2019 Spend: £174.00   Ever since I had been messing with the suspension, I had this profound knocking, mostly audible at low speed.  Could not figure out what it was, so handed the car over to NMS and left them to sort the geometry and eliminate the
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June 2017

June 1st, 2017 Spend: £25.00   When I notified the DVLA about the engine change, I got a letter back saying that they could only accept an inspection of a garage on headed paper.  Visited a few garages today and found  V-A-G Tune Services just around the corner from work who was happy to oblige to that request.  Paperwork now off to the DVLA again, so fingers crossed!   June 11th, 2017 Spend: £0.00     Free tickets to see the GT3/4 racing at Sil
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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
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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
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June 2014

June 15th, 2014 Spend: £446 Sold:  £300   For the past 2 months I've been sitting on a padded garden chair cushion due to not being able to drive the car with the standard Westfield sport seats. At the Stoneleigh show I visited the Intatrim stand which had a lovely, but more importantly, comfortable thin shell seat on display.     I placed my order the next working day, and last Thursday they finally arrived.     Cleaned up the old seats
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July 2020

July 12th, 2020 Spend: £0.00   What else to do on a sunny day?  Keeping hydrated of course!         Last month: £  9654.76 This month: £     0.00             ----------+ Total:      £  9654.76
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July 2019

July 8th, 2019 Spend: £0.00   A lovely evening at the pub with likeminded people     July 17th, 2019 Spend: £0.00   My son and I both wanted a 3D printer, and with the great thread from @nice_guy on all things 3D, we bought an Ender 3 Pro which was delivered a couple of days ago.  Biggest hurdle for me is the CAD side, but after a few tutorials I was confident enough to print my 1st car part: a backplate for the Hella 3rd brake light mounted on
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July 2018

July 6th, 2018 Spend: £0.00   Oops!  Did something stupid and will now pay the price for it.  Ran into the crashbar of a truck (he didn't even notice) and damaged my cycle wing and nose cone in the process.         Made some roadside "repair" and got the car home.     July 8th, 2018 Spend: £0.00   Met up with @richyb and went to the Kimbolton Country Fayre.     July 15th, 2018
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July 2017

July 1st, 2017 Spend: £0.00   Paul popped round with his extensive tool kit and we removed the head and inspected it for damages, marks and other clues.  At first the head gasket seemed ok, and so did the pistons and valves except for a clean(ish) section on cylinder 1.       Cylinder 1 also appeared to sit a little lower than it's counterpart 4.                           Af
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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.    
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January 2020

January 5th, 2020 Spend: £0.00   Having won a £50 voucher to spend at the Westfield Parts department with @Julie Hall - Peak District AO's Battle of the ODO's just before Christmas, I decided to replace my battery cut-off key with a proper FIA kill switch.  I had one previously fitted, but that broke within a week, so having spend nearly all of the voucher on the switch, it better last longer!     January 12th, 2020 Spend: £123.64   As mentioned
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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
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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             ----------+
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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
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February 2020

February 1st, 2020 Spend: £0.00     Not happy with the layout of the new centre console, I moved the USB charger to the dash and moved one of the remote control buttons to the other side of the steering wheel.   February 2nd, 2020 Spend: £11.94   Replaced the saddle clip and re-greased the Type 9 gearbox linkage, hoping it will improve the shifting issue I've been having for the past 2 years.  This time I put two spacers on the extension to rais
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February 2019

February 21st, 2019 Spend: £0.00   The sun is out and the urge to go out in the Westfield again is growing.  Time to start cracking! Agreed to borrow @Marto303's sliding hammer so that I could remove the half shafts.  What a difference the right tool makes to a job .  They were out in 5 minutes, although I could not remove the OS without also removing the brake drum back plate.  And that means replacing the brake fluid as I've had to disconnect the lines.  Oh well, just anoth
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February 2017

February 4th, 2017 Spend: £66.98   Completed engine mount alteration and now it looks like the bonnet fits, as well as having enough clearance with the alternator on the chassis.     Started on fuel lines and relocated fuel pressure regulator to the rear of the engine next to the coils by altering an IKEA fastener slightly.     Fastened the clutch and accelerator cables.  Measured up all the cooling pipe sizes so I can start ordering these
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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
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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
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December 2019

December 1st, 2019 Spend: £36.99   Continuing with the badge fixing.       And then I moved onto the next thing, replacing the odo display.  This turned out to be a bit of a 'mare, but hopefully once put back together, not very noticeable where I had to damage things to get it apart.     I'm taking the opportunity to change the face of the gauge as the plan is to replace all gauge faces in a similar style.   December 8th, 2019
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