Carl Meek & James Lovett - Build Diary for Westfield
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Hungover!


 

August 31 2007 - Hungover!
Hungover badly... so not going to attempt anything too challenging!

The new exhaust bracket has turned up from westfield, so I need to figure that out. There's no obvious way to fit it, so after some messing about, i decided to drill all the way through the body and the chassis, sandwich an alloy block in the middle, and tighten it all up. Seems to work... so i bolted on the can using a rubber block. Finally, fitted the heatshield.

Next, i refitted the left rear arch, this time using the recommended 10 bolts. Feels much better. Refitted lights, tied up the wires, refitted wheels, and its back together.

I decided to make a throttle body adjustment to make the engine a little richer at tickover to stop the ignition in the intakes. I adjusted the star screw on the throttle pot, and wound down the idle screw. Its running beautifully now, and much quieter!

Next, I fitted the green bulb for the neutral light and tested it - that will be essential for the sequential box.

Final quick job to screw down the pedal inspection cover. The drill slipped and i took a huge gouge out of the black - bugger. At least its only in the engine bay.

I unwrapped and trial fitted the front cycle wings. They strike me as too small, might have to modify those to stop them rubbing on the tyres.

Todays Build: 1 person, 3 hours.. Total build time so far: 119 hours, 188 man-hours.