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Morning all....... Getting ready to rock and roll. See you all soon

Alex, you're a credit to the local Cotswolds club and have been to many events do far, keep up the good work

Photos are up: http://www.msvtphotography.com/v/photos/30369gsg/C219401404

Dried out pretty much after the sighting laps and even turned a bit sunny I now have a new list of upgrades. And no, none of it is to replace stuff that fell off.

This is just a thought....i am a member of another kit car club a few people on there were finding uploading pics from photo bucket ECT a nightmare....also a lot of them only use there phoned...anyway the site has been changed so you can upload pics straight from your phone takes only a few seconds...works great....anyway just a thought..martin

If I were Billy TC I'd hang on to them, the factory parts dept say they're on 6 months back order.... ( although they're showing as in stock for next day delivery on the website) ...

That cage is rose jointed ? So I think its not allowed now

Perfect with a set of yellow tinted Aviator Driving Glasses.

You get the feeling Evans is that bloke down the pub who spouts off about cars like he knows everything but is invariably wrong. Only with more money.

booked

Min Bus for "GF" Meal Arrangements have been made for the return Mini Bus trips from the Blyton Track to the Black Horse pub 1st trip will leave the track @ 7-30pm with about 12 people on board (max 16) 2nd trip with the balance of party goers will leave around 7-45pm Marto again has kindly agreed to be "Bus Monitor" and will collect £3-00 from each of you to cover the cost of this service (same as last year)! Look forward to seeing you all at Blyton Glutey

The larger bits came back from the powder coaters today. Im really pleased with the finish, its 99% perfect and only cost £96 all in. I found a prime position to start the build: The wife didnt have the same opinion on where the build should continue so it was relegated to the garage. (it made it longer than i expected) Mike

Yes I know who you mean, I'll be seeing him on Monday to put him through his mock MoT assessment prior to the real thing on Friday . I should see you on Saturday at Curborough.

OK, so I've been slack. Well, slightly slack, like a Euro MP on full salary. Having left you all with tales of a wiring mess, within the last month I've finally set to and begun the process of making it right. Beginning with removing all the unknown wires and making what I could of the faded labels, there's a lot less in there! My colleague and friend then gave me a few boxes of cable and connectors as he used to be Durite dealer. Then I got on with redesigning the dash. The original had way too many switches and lights and preferring the minimalist approach I thought a new layout was worth the effort. Way back in 1989 a friend and I built a Westfield that began from a wrecked MKII Cortina. As I have the ubiquitous crossflow in this new one, a few throwbacks were needed. The car came with a Cortina speedo which I've retained but I wanted more. Ebay turned up another Cortina clock, the one with combined fuel, water, ignition and oil. Whilst as large as the speedo, it combines all I need. The rev counter that came in the car remains also. I had to take the glass out of these two Cortina dials to clean 40 years of muck out. Quite simply I knocked the chrome bezel off with a screwdriver carefully located on one of the tabs. They came off without incident and are now much cleaner! So that I could lay the items out to my satisfaction, I photocopied them all and then stuck them onto a card mock-up that I taped into the car. This method let me play around with the layout and place things where I wanted them in order of viewing preference. Once happy I sorted a list of parts and popped around the corner to home for a visit to Car Builder Solutions. Fancy that, having lived in Dartford for years, I'd looked at their site quite a lot, then by pure chance found myself living a short walk away! The original dash then provided a template to cut a new one from DiBond which is an aluminium plastic composite used in the sign business. I've a large scrap panel of it in the workshop at my office so it just happened to be the best thing to use. Accurate measuring of the dials and switches ( I never believe the supplier figures) using an electronic caliper gave me measurements to draw a template for each item. The orange background is just the vinyl graphic that was on the DiBond but it proved useful. Having used the drawn templates (as seen above) to cut through to the vinyl, I then peeled the orange off revealing the white of the material. Drilling and filling produced some decent holes. Constant test fitting ensured I got the switches and dials snug.

I have a used pair somewhere- will find and send a photo