Sunday 30 August 2009

New radiator


I had *a* plan.
It was fairly simple: duck and dive to the end of the season - then change all the old stuff what needed changing - over the winter.
Her majesty was dripping fluid from both ends @Silverstone, one fix being somewhat easier than the other. Either way, if i have any hope of making it to the grid on 10th October @Silverstone, I need to be "making some fixes"...as a European F1 driver would say.

Fix #1 (DiY)

New radiator.
Turns out - as many S1 Elise drivers will testify - that the rather splendid design of the OEM rad - it being too thin combined with the fact that plastoc ends are crimped onto aluminium - means it's often the first thing to go. Well...it definitely has gone and I need to replace it with a full alloy version; so i'm going to fit one of these:
http://www.proalloy.co.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=det&pt=52_62_178&p=207&id=proalloy
........what's even more worrying is i'm going to try it myself.

Fix #2
....is a replacement rear main seal: gearbox out....definitely a job not for me so will be giving that to the chaps @Guglielmi Motorsport.

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