So this afternoon, I slipped under the car (no mean feat!) and un-did the propshaft and made a note of a few things: The prop only has about 8-10mm clearance, so it might be bottoming out (compressing in fact between gearbox and axle?) as the axle moves through its range?...
Okay so I have the data from the Toovey engine dyno run some years back, and I now have a second set of data points from the rolling session at Northampton Motorsport and the numbers do have some correlation (as one would expect). There are some data gaps in both...
The GT was with Northampton Motorsport yesterday for a tuning session now that the car starts. The quick report, is that bar three issues that arose its suitable for the road as long as I keep the speed below 100MPH LOL. The above video shows some of the three hour...
… since I last posted As I said in my post of May, the site is somewhat defunct now, due to changes in Covid, my life and interests, but to all you readers who want to see where I am with the GT, its now able to start and move!...
Right just a quick update. As a result of the failure in Spring to set up the steering geometry because (as I was informed) the front ball joints are loose, the wheel bearings are loose and the steering rack has too much play, I was forced to abandon plans to...
Its taken a little longer to make the new bushes for the pedal box, but they are all made and push fitted into the box and arms. This will not wear out like those useless plastic ones! First I had to obtain some SAE660 Leaded Bronze. The local metal suppliers...
Yep thats right, taking it apart again, whilst I am fiddling with other so called finished bits, I removed the pedal box tonight and stripped it down to the bare case, the Brake arm and the Clutch arm. Long story short it’s all working exactly as it should but the...
Today I have added a new earth to the car, so as well as the nice big earth post at the rear of the car, I now have a 110amp earth lead direct from the battery to the front chassis leg on the drivers side. From the battery following the...
It’s been two weeks I stopped working on the GT, and a week since the big show I was aiming for, its been a quiet two weeks of taking stock of things both with the Viva and some other very important decisions in life. I will not bore you with...
Okay I am back from seeing lots of folks who own Viva’s and its given the push today to have a look at the GT bottom pulley. Fist off I agree as a steel pulley its not going to be a clear a signal as an alloy pulley would give...