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Hang on until next spring :-) Plan is to get out to a private test day at Santa Pod. This removes hours of queuing for, if lucky, 3-4 runs in a day. Numbers are limited so you can almost go round and round as a lot of tinkering is done between runs by most cars. Costs around £100 but well worth it.

Mould made from pattern, carbon fibre laid up and then cured. Some post-production fettling required to tidy up the edges and corners but not too bad. For those who think that I should have simply made it out of aluminium.....

I can't get a beep out of the battery isolator. Spoke to Cartek and I am sending it to them for testing tomorrow. This is going to be expensive, either a new isolator or a wiring fault finding exercise :-) Anyway, on to more interesting stuff. Made the radiator/intercooler shroud pattern today...

Car is back ! First task is to sort out the isolator so we can start on the button. Then fill with clutch and brake fluid and check for and fix leaks. Finish Pneumatic lines to compressor and set up gear change system, fingers crossed that I fitted a big enough actuator. Fill with coolant...

They are great, as long as you know what you are doing and don't buy cheap! They require a bespoke charger designed for lithium batteries (don't buy cheap copies). It goes through various health checks before charging. Best. You can use a standard charger if it doesn't have a de-sulphate mode...

PDM up and running and starter motor connected to dash button. I am still amazed that the tiny lithium battery (weighing just under 1Kg ) works

We did discover a rather expensive problem. We have no throttle because this ECU has no drive by wire capability. When I bought it we were using cable as DBW was not reliable enough for our application. This was quite a few years ago and we have since upgraded to DBW, not realising the ECU...

No water, turbo or throttle control but it fires up!

For anyone remotely interested in car batteries: Approx 7 years ago I though that I was near to starting the car up so decided to get a battery. Being, as you are all no doubt aware, somewhat anal about the car's weight, I decided to grit my teeth and go for a lithium jobbie. After a fair...

It certainly does. Mum was 94 so did pretty well and we were all there when she passed away in her own bed, still knowing who we all were.

:-) Yes, been there. Mum died last January so Dad is on his own for the first time in over 70 years! He is doing OK and my Sister lives only 5 minutes away (I'm over 40 minutes away) and he wants to say in their house for as long as possible. The sad thing is that he is lonely as their brothers...

Hi Waynne, trust that you and your family are well.. Started to make a TODO list, always a scary thing to do as they are never ending. In no particular order: Fit handle to driver's door Cut and fit door polycarbonate windows Fit front and rear screens Fit wiper assembly Complete interior...

:) No, still hanging on in there. I plan to go to Dante's first circle of Hell as I am not a believer. Looks to be much more fun than Heaven.

Hi, anyone still on here? :) Since mid 2020 I have done very little work on the car, a combination of going mad with it at the start of lockdown, then building an entertainment suite in the barn along with a putting course and a mini golf course, not forgetting the go kart track. However, I...

When the horse and mule went we had an empty paddock. Hmmmm, what to do with it? Obvious, really, make a Go Kart track. 604m long, 18 bends, 14 to the left and 14 to the right. Track record stands at 1m 36.45secs.

Hi Waynne. All is fine here. Little work on the car at present as we are in the middle of some major garden works.

Hi. I think that my MoJo is returning, albeit slowly. At least I am making a sanding mess :-) If I can get the doors to fit how I want them I will be well on the way to finishing the bodywork. Then on to the interior.

In order to get the door to fit better, so less fettling needed, I needed to adjust the lock post ((or whatever the sticky out thing that the lock grabs is called). In order to get it to tighten up on to the very thin carbon door opening I needed a thick washer. Where to get a 3mm washer at 5pm...

Hi guys. Finally started back on the car's bodywork. Unfortunately, the first thing I noticed is that the driver's door has warped! One step forward Etc :-(

Just seen this -) Nice car, but not really a USA Elan equivalent. 1472kg as opposed to 700kg, 400bhp compared to 125bhp max and a 0-60mph of around 4.5 sec with the Elan being around 7 sec. However, as you say, the Elan would run rings around the Vette on a twisty race course :) The nearest USA...

Hi Jack I'm in Bicknacre, near Chelmsford.

I rest my case :)

Filming happened on Wednesday.

Most of it will be sanded off :-)

We regard to the possibility of the Elan appearing in a Zombie movie, I cleaned it up a bit and threw a coat of rattle can black matt over it. It looks more presentable and has the added bonus of showing up the imperfections still to be dealt with (lots).

No, I will see if I can find it.

Ah, I thought that there may be a swear word in there :)

WFE?

Burnt myself out at the beginning of the first lockdown, making the carbon roof and doors plus a lot of bodywork fettling. Over the last year we have built the 'Entertainment Suite', a 9 hole putting course plus a lot of stuff in the garden and I mislaid my Mojo. The garage has been neglected...

Or golf, it makes it a whole new game.

We also did some archery -)

This weekend we had some of our drag racing buddies over with their partners for a couple of days of games and fun. We can't really do drag racing so I set up a Go Kart course in the back garden. It messed up the grass somewhat but it will grow back. MANY years ago we used to run horse shows and...

An old video (a couple of months ago) showing the putting course after I had just cut it for the first time. The greens are seeded with specialist seed designed for golf greens. I made the Connect 4 out of a couple of 10mm sheets of ply and a 150mm hole cutter. The discs were cut with a 200mm...

Hi. I am still here but the last year has been somewhat different. I went mad on the car in the first lockdown and suffered car modding burnout. Around that time my son asked if he could convert the bay in the barn, that the Elan used to live in before I built a new garage, into a gym as the one...

Correct, but I think that the max width is 17mm, or just under 3/4".

If views meant progress I would have finished a few years ago :-) Not a lot happening at the moment. Sort of burnt out having made roof, doors and windows so doing other stuff at the moment, like building a games room/bar/gym in the barn bays vacated by the Elan and my son's Audi S3. Should...

Just go over and introduce yourself. Be humble and don't try too hard to impress because you will fail :) He may welcome free help or he may not but there is only one way to find out.