Week 3 – Obsession, a photo by Phil_Barker on Flickr.

Every spare minute I’ve had this week (lunch breaks and nights included) I’ve been working on finishing the Clio off.

After I fitted the air box/filter to the ITB’s I knew I wanted to do this photo.

Enjoyed doing another strobist shot, need to do more!

I also took a little setup photo so you could see where the flash/umbrella were placed

There’s no better way to spend the day before Christmas eve than going to pick up more car bits!

Today I bought some Bimarco Futura bucket seats, side mounts and subframes. Also picked up a PTFE gasket for the throttle bodies that should reduce heat transfer between the head and the bodies

I was hoping to be painting the interior and cage by now but the temperature is around -3c and I don’t think the paint will take so I’m switching my plans around a bit

Had a brilliant day today. My mates Toby and Mark came over for the weekend and we swapped my manifold for a 182 manifold. This involved dropping the subframe down which I thought would be a nightmare but with Toby’s help only took a few hours.

As we had the rest of the afternoon spare we decided to fit the Jenvey’s and see if it would run – it did!!

I later found out I’d forgot to bung a lambda hole up so it’s blowing quite a bit and the ITB’s need balancing – but you can’t beat that feeling when a modded engine first fires up!

Star of the show, a photo by Phil_Barker on Flickr.

I was lucky enough a few weekends ago to get to go to Waddington Air Show and see Vulcan XH558 flying

It’s been probably 10+ years since I’ve seen a vulcan in flight and it still drops my jaw

Such a fantastic experience.

If you get chance donate some money to the guys/gals who keep the vulcan flying as it would be absolutely criminal to lose such a fantastic reminder of when Great Britain truly was Great!