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Well hello - been a while and you may well be asking 'Where's your latest update what have you been doing all summer?' and that would be an excellent question. Well apart from starting a new job, painting the extterior to the house, catchiing up on odd DIY jobs there is nothing more depressing than a half built car and looking out at beautiful summer driving days lost. With the best will in the world this build was never going to be done before Spring 2014 so I don't feel too bad and some progress has been made. So as the main image would suggest I am well into modifying the Mazda loom.Firstly I failed to follow the 6 P's principle and cut 2 beautiful holes in the scuttle, and then decided to re route the wiring through the firewall - which turned out to be a much neater option, but leaves me with some patchwork repairs or to buy a new scuttle . Still as the images suggest I think I have done a pretty tidy job.... http://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/index.php/gallery/image/1229-ns-wiring/ http://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/index.php/gallery/image/1230-os-wiring/ And this will make ths scuttle area much tidier particularly as the battery will be hidden away behind the radiator. So where is the airbox going then? Well I have made up an new air intake with cone filter. http://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/index.php/gallery/image/1232-intake/ Which now means I will have to re rouite the cooling system - but this was on the cards anyway. Sump was sent away for modification to a local engineering firm - nice job and will add detail to blog next time. So next update should have a video of first start - hopefully so don't hold your breath. Take Care

It's that funny handshake you gave him Bob.

Thanks Adam, yes hopefully catch you at a meet sometime

Check out this U-tube video ...... Couple of 7s report

Yep the sound is very addictive. Got my hands on it today, I am over the moon! fantastic car, cannot believe I waited so long to find one and this one is exactly what I was after. Looking forward to many happy years looking after this beauty! which my two year old has now named 'Nemo'

I have no idea, so I'm going to guess at lightning strike

Who said fit them on one axle?( it never said it in the video) and more to the point why would you fit them to just one axle? It's a no brainer. Winter tyres had just come into vogue when I worked for Pirelli (2005) and it was all the usual crap "it's just another way of ripping the motorist off" but as mentioned the difference in performance is measurable...cold wet days they are perfect the main thing they give is feel and confidence in everyday driving but it's under braking is where they score. If was running the Tamora in the winter I would definitely use winter tyres. As JC mentioned the real danger out there are the tight gits running on cheap budget summer or normal tyres. These are such a poor performing Tyres in the wet cold conditions of winter I would rather use slicks or a descent set of quality tyres on 1mm of tread. Buzz

Well done Barry for initiating the idea and seeing it through

All of the above but either loose connection generates heat and makes connection even looser than before generating more heat and so on. or as said cable no man enough for the job.......min size depending on length of run is I think ( not up vto latest regs) 6mm2 but 10mm should cover all options.

Norman, Ive been in touch with the DEC today, and UNICEF and the UN offering myself, and a team of chainsaw operators to fly to Phillipines tomorrow to cut the trees off the roads that are blocking the access routes from nearly all cities. I have offered a month of our time. No thanks was the answer. Its a desperate situation.