Monty the Rwd R1 engined tarmac eating Minus by Alburglar

3 minute(s) of a 160 minute read

Long time since last post,
I have fixed various spots of damaged fibreglass including a bad section on the underside where the a-series exhaust y-piece had been too close to the floor and melted the grp.
Then I turned my attention to finishing any bits that could be done whilst the tank and rad are out. So I've started to sort out the bulkhead. Removing the ******* sound deadning.

and whilst I was at it, the ally bulkhead box might as well go too.

Quick clean with solvents and it looks much better already, so a bit more scrubbing and I'll graft in some new grp to fill the big hole, plus some little holes that were hidden under the sound deadning.

3-21-2008

Slopped some grp on it last night.

3-27-2008

Right more or less finished my front bulkhead repairs, just needs filler and paint. Fitted the flanges for my cold air feeds to make sure that fitted ok.

Finished the old exhaust hole too

Then turned my attention to the throttle action. The throttle cable takes a very conveluted path and is stiff so the choke was sticking open sometimes. So I've welded a bracket to a clevis pin.

This along with solderless nipples fixes the cable to the bottom of the throttle lever arm as normal.

But the bracket allows me to add a return spring, which forces the cableback through it's sheath. You can't see here,but behind the arm there is a solderless nipple on the the throttle cable either side of the clevis pin. 

Works OK but needs a return spring on the pedal too, which I've nearly finished.