Brought the car down the 250 mile journey to my new home area. Apart from the tyres initially rubbing on the front spring, caused by being a bit flat so I pumped them up, absolutely no problems in the baking heat! Fair play for a 25 year old car.  I do think my blower is stuck on hot though, so an open window down the motorway was a nice source of cool air. I'll look into that at some point.

Tracking is obviously way out, I need it set up properly since I changed the suspension, so it wanders to the left unless you hold the wheel. Plus the tyres are knackered and wheels badly out of balance, so bad wobbles weren't great. But for the 4 hour engine drone, (very noisey in the cockpit with no insulation and headlining!), I almost managed to drown it out with headphones and radio from my phone.

Also been up working on the car a little today for the first time in 3 months, now I finally have it back. After a suggestion of fabric loom tape, I got stuck in to tidying up the battery terminals and internal wiring. Looks a hell of a lot neater and surely more reliable!


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There's still (despite some trimming) loads of excessive / un-required wiring in the glovebox area, I'll only take bits out piece by piece that obviously don't need to be there - it used to be a massive birds nest of wire. Unless someone comes and points what wires to cut.

Also noticed something odd, it's cut out twice stalling trying to drive over a small ramp into the garage it' parked at. No problem. But starting up again is tricky, it seems to not quite get enough momentum to fire properly. I need to look at the fuel filter - it's not obvious to me which pipes go to the engine and which to the pump, but I think it's the wrong way round. Hopefuly that's what is causing that hiccup. When I replaced it, it definately went in the same way it was arrowed before but I'm not sure it was correct in the first place.

Sourced some wheels and track tyres, so that's positive news. I'll also be ordering a new timing belt kit and water pump, so I'll be doing a coolant flush at last while I'm there. Looking at booking a test session at Pembrey early August, but only after it gets tracking and suspension alignment sorted.