Day 20: To do list

No more weekends left! Oulton Park is in 5 days.

Today the following arrived:

• Rear brakes - unfortunately Paul ordered the wrong bracket so we either need to modify what we did order, or return for the correct part.
• Toyo R888s - 1 set, so we now have 2 sets of tyres (no budget for more than that, should do for next couple of rounds)
• Paint - high pressure rattle cans for speed and cost.

Recap of what is left to do to commission the car for running in, mapping and dyno testing:

• Paint the front wing and bumper
• Get heads drilled for larger studs
• Build long engine (waiting on cam followers, ordered today)
• Assemble fuel rails (waiting on injectors)
• Refit fuel tank and fuel system
• Fit remaining ancillary parts (waiting on wet sump, query whether we need to re-fabricate exhaust manifold, which may mean switching to one big wastegate)
• Modify existing loom to fit Solaris - making a new loom specifically for the Solaris has been axed in favour of speed and budget (waiting on new map sensor)
• Drill brake disc bells for correct stud pattern
• Fabricate front anti roll bar
• Commission new brakes (waiting on pads, ordered today)
• Fabricate remaining mounts for front splitter
• Final flat floor install
• Engine etc install

Luckily Fred was able to help again today and he was worth his weight in gold driving to and from the machine shop with heads and bells, all drilled and ready to go now. Further afield Steven Darley kindly removed his wet sump set-up over the weekend which has now been picked up by David Wallis, for delivery on Wednesday. Team ZEN has the greatest friends and seriously, I would be willing to place bets on it being the biggest team effort in all of Time Attack (as well as the most last minute )

In other news I have been crunching the numbers and so far so good. To date the money spent is just under half of the income derived from selling parts of the 2008 specification of the green car, combined with the income from selling the blue car shell and some of it’s component parts.