sladey

No probs Ian

I might have something that interests you. In May I'm converting to Tractive suspension prior to a Euro trip. This will involve replacing the front hubs and struts so I'll be looking to sell on my old setup. So I've converted to coilovers front and rear, and I've raised the front spindles by 19mm (the max you can raise them and still fit under 15 inch wheels. I've got Bilsteins front and rear that were rebuilt by the factory in the last couple of years (or 3?) - a lot of this is detailed on my DDK thread. I've no idea what to charge for the setup but if you're interested then we can talk about it. My intention is to remove the existing setup prior to going on holiday in the back half of April and then fit the tractive when I get back (early May) - it's booked into Center Gravity on Monday 18th May prior to my alps trip the following Sunday. Whilst I'll have it stripped off early I'm reluctant to let anything go before I've got the new system in place in case I get rid of something I need.

Completely agreed

Could possibly be the wrong inserts? I know you need to get inserts for boge struts or bilstein struts but I don't know the difference between the two - maybe one is longer? OR something could have dropped down inside the insert before it was fitted and it's forcing the shock up (You'd think that would have been checked when fitting them though)

Look cool

What a load of borlocks. He's doing exactly what all the rest of us have been doing for years and calling it art. "signature touches" used to pish me off but this is way worse than that

Wot Jon said - lovely to see the orange moving again

Wot they said

14,200 on 19th December 1999 at the time that seemed to be the cheapest (decent) G50 car around. I was so excited. Since then it's been triggers broom, Couldn't guess at how much I've spent on it. Still on original gearbox though at 320K miles.

looking lovely

Interesting stuff - glad you got it sorted. I had the same issue about 15 years ago and it was one of my worst times with the car - really hard to diagnose. There are tests in Bentley but when doing them we underestimated the cooling ability of the engine and it wasn't up to temp when we did the tests. Wayne Schofield identified the problem in a few minutes and verified it by putting a resistor across the CHT terminals which fooled it to thinking all was well - the problems disappeared straight away. Anyway - really glad you got it sorted

Love those seats Ian

my best guess would be that the braided one plugs into the back of the intake system - vacuum as Nige says On the smooth one my guess would be that it should go round the other side and connect into something around the oil filler neck. I had a similar problem on a previous engine build - there are several pipes that connect in around there - easy to check if you've got any open holes round the back of the oil filler neck - with mine because it was on the far side (as you're looking into the engine bay) I just didn't spot it HTH

Just read that - excellent balanced article. Never been into formula 1 but love the drive to survive series and currently catching up on 2023. Next season should be good!

Nice.