Thanks for the encouragement Dave
I put in a couple of hours on this most afternoons after work. Loony's 'shop's in Basingstoke, Hants, where I work, but I live 40 miles away in Guildford, Surrey. So my daily routine consists of getting up at 4.45am, driving to work, trudging the streets delivering the mail until about 2.30pm, then getting changed into my grubby garage clothes & spending the rest of the afternoon cutting & filing bits of metal. I usually don't get home till about 8 in the evening -about the same time Taz gets home.
Sometimes it starts to feel like a second, (unpaid), job & it ain't always easy to find the enthusiasm to keep plugging away at it. I'm on a time limit though as it has to be finished & tested before October. I'm also renting my workshop space from Loony, so the longer it's there, the more it costs me & I'm sure he'd like the space back.
We're aiming to actually fire it up this Sunday & drive it out of the workshop for the first time. Lots of stuff left to do, but it's got steering, suspension & brakes. So I need to get the second set of exhaust headers made up & hook up a temporary fuel line & find a long battery cable from somewhere, (the battery's in the back, under the pick-up bed). I'm hoping my brother Brock can make it over from Wiltshire for the day cos I'd appreciate his drag car building expertise to run a fresh eye over it all -better to find any faults now than when it's on it's way to the test.
Mr Kapri, if you fancy witnessing the maiden voyage around the yard, or a spectacular fireball, whichever comes first, you'll be very welcome, as will anyone else I'm sure, especially if you have any knowledge of setting up carbs, chokes, gearbox kick-down cables, ignition circuits etc.
If it actually runs & moves under it's own steam, it'd also be nice to have someone on hand who can post a video of it on YouTube for us.
