Enlisted my Father once more, (his labour rate is cheap) as I have to work and investigation shows I have not wired the secondary cut off on the switch to the correct wire, so we then do the correct wire on the ignition switch last night and repair the wrongly spliced one. A quick test and we are done – thanks goodness it wasn’t too painful and I spot the binnacle surround needs screws back in so that’s done too.

Starting to get nervous, tickets arrived, plan arrived, garage allocated, testing booked – HANS posts on Helmet now.

A final service and check over tonight hopefully we’ll be ready but there’s bound to a be a surprise somewhere – this car has kicked and screamed thus far!

Well this weekend was a hectic one on the car, it needed to be finished by Sunday night ready for an engine service and final brake bleed tonight (Tuesday) – Testing is this Friday and I did not want any last minute rushing going on.

Decided to start from the front of the car and work my may back, working my way through the last minute bits.

Saturday:

• Fitted the front bumper properly and refitted the O/S/F wheel arch lining that had graunch’d off putting it on the trailer last week. While the wheel was off, put the My Laps Timing Bracket on the inner wing, behind the damper.
• Next tightened up all the fire extinguisher nozzles  in the engine bay, topped up the coolant and disconnected the Inertia switch by bypassing it using a connector.
• Fitted the wipers and screen wash hose.
• Loomed up the wiring put in from the ignition switch to the electric cut off switch in the dash, removed the airbag unit from the dashboard, cut out around the radio hole to allow the blanking plate to fit properly.
• Tightened the in car fire extinguisher nozzles, fitted both fire extinguisher pull cables to the bottle.
• Fitted the harness then adjusted the straps and refitted the harness (which my kids love for some reason!)
• Then I fixed in the door bars on to the rest of the roll cage and tightened the lot up, a mad dash to the local hardware store for some washers along the way.
• It was then time to put it up in the air and do the petrol tank strap, the clamp bolt had sheared and I had managed to get an OEM new one from eBay.

Sunday:

• Remove the rear bumper, spray the parts I want green to match the front.
• Remove the rear roof spoiler an paint the outer fin.
• Work with good old dad to form two brackets to hold in the radio blanking plate and give it strength to allow the extinguisher pull cable to be pulled. Again painted black to look better.
• A coat of wax all over and windows polished, Z n  F Tuning stickers put on the rear along with the interior scrutineer decals.

I then decide to warm the car and brakes up by going up and down the road and braking hard. This was fun, the car really shifts with no weight in it and sounds the part as the gravel hits the wheel arches and there is no sound deadening.

Time to park it up, put the cover on and after two long days we are done. Reverse the car on the drive then decide rather than use the key I use the cut off to kill the car. The car carries on running – my wiring must be wrong. Stop the engine with the key and then turn the cut off, nothing battery isolated as expected. No more time for investigation now so it will now have to wait.

So while away, Dad stepped in and adjusted the bonnet pins, then he re-adjusted the pull cable’s again! The decals went on the car on Easter Monday and the car is now looking like a race car.

Managed to get all four Toyo Proxies tyres swapped onto the rims I purchased for them on Tuesday night and finished the electric cut off. The car is now at home for the final push, test afternoon booked for next Friday (2nd of May) – Gulp! Race 1 on the 3rd…..

So a mad dash has started over the past few weeks, mainly because of a relaxing Easter week in North Lincs taking me out of the game for 11 days. So just before I left I managed to get the holed brake pipe replaced and bled and now it stops! The bumper has been hung on and the fire extinguisher and electrical cut off connected up via cables. (Ignore the Hob Nobs)

fit three thousand times later they are in and working!