D-Day: Part I

This is it, the last chance saloon day to get the car ready for warm up at Snetterton at 9 something am tomorrow! That’s less than 20 hours away…

Paul came to bed at around 3am this morning and all he said was ‘it’s been running’, I squeezed his hand and went to sleep. If Paul was home, he must be happy!

I am told that there was a lot of cursing and stressing last night, as the team tried to chase down a wiring issue… At some ungodly hour, once everything was on and connected, Paul went through and tested the function of everything from injectors to cam and crank sensor, which is where a gremlin seemed to develop. It was sorted enough to get the oil primed and at about 2am the car was fired up. Tongue in cheek Mike commented to me this morning that it ran surprsingly well on 1 cylinder! Although he hastily added it went well on 4 too

Unfortunately the scavenge hose from oil tank to pump leaked as soon as the engine was commissioned. Serious blow with a brand new hose and only Saturday to sort a replacement. Teflon lined, braided stainless hose in -12 is not something we have just lying around because it is too damned expensive. After bacon and egg and a late start this morning, Paul was on to it - a puncture in the hose that looks like it may have been there since we bought the hose at least, if not a manufacturing defect! Phonecalls were made and fortunately, Trident Racing Supplies at Silverstone were open and had hose. Hooray for that!

It’s quiet here at the moment, with Mike and Paul getting on with various jobs. Gareth and Sam, race mechanics for the weekend, will be over later after they have done various family things. Everything still to do!

20 hours to go till we are out on track

Sorting the connectors

Spot the missing parts!

Ren woz ere