Just in a bit of a slump, this past week, but I'm sure it'll pass. Extremely active boss is going on holiday Sunday, so hopefully work should chill out a bit. (Not that it's been particularly bad, but I've been on my feet a lot and oh boy am I feeling it.) ((...that reminds me, I need to book some time off, too, before I get to the end of the year with a bunch of unused holiday days.)) I've ordered some bits n pieces to make new tank-straps; that's all

Turns out, XML::RSS::SimpleGen doesn't support putting dates on the items in the feed. A minor annoyance. Maybe someday I'll do something about that. (But probably not.) ... Also, apparently Klompen's post creation doesn't work if the author tag doesn't have an email following it. I may also do something about that, too.

Aforementioned material arrived, and it's almost all correct! Apparently, though, I decided to order a piece of 1/2" tube to make the port on the air-box for the air compressor's inlet, when I should've ordered 1". Guess I've just got myself a new lightweight racing peashooter. An air-filter has been ordered, along with a filter housing lid, so I

Well, so much for the long weekend, and getting stuff done. Friday: Came down with the sickness. Saturday: I was dead. Sunday: [ugh] Monday: I rose again, cursing profusely. Still feeling pretty rough, but managed to get the intake a few steps

That's that bit complete! (Will need to put a little protective sleeving on the plastic pipes where they pass right by the braided hose, just to remove any risk of rubbing/melting.) So, we all know what needs to happen now, don't we?

The car is starved for attention, and decided to get some in a potentially dramatic way, with a fairly sudden hot low oil pressure problem. So I went and changed the oil & filter -- no glitter at all (hmm) -- in case it was just degraded. That didn't fix it. So I order bearings, and go to park the car up until I can tear the sump off and investigate. When I park it up, I notice my alignment has gone all to

(Not pictured: the obligatory beverage) Go round in circles for a bit, and voilà! I didn't quite get to place the fuel pump hole where I'd originally planned, due to conflicting with the fuel tank straps. It's sat further out than I would've liked, but I didn't want to end up running

So, on the bank holiday monday, I did a little more measuring and confirmed that I should be able to get the manifold as-built to fit under the engine cover with a bit over an inch of clearance. Satisfied with this, I committed to more welding! And a bit more...