Zero Life

So when changing my broken fan, I noticed a leak from the radiator - time for a new one. I ordered it from Coolex for £140, only slightly mo...

 It's like Zedster read my last entry and decided to buck up his ideas - a brief run out today in glorious sunshine and my voltmeter was...

 Missed me, fans? Sorry, been out on a few runs but nothing exciting enough to tell you about... What I have done is hopefully fixed my temp...

Well,  an interesting day - drove about 3 miles to the garage for an emissions test. First impressions of my car? It's very low! Every...

Continuing with testing, I drove a mile or so up and down my road with the bonnet on for the first time, to see how the cooling system handl...

Finally sorted out the handbrake light; firstly,  I'd wired it the wrong way round - it's an LED so unlike a normal bulb,  you have ...

One of the best days of my build so far... The plan today was to get the wheels on,  roll the car out,  clear out the dump that is my ga...

Well,  the world has gone to crap in a bucket in the last week,  what with the EU referendum and the England football team losing in  horren...

Time to anoint my car - OK,  I mean add coolant. I bought some pre-mixed water and anti-freeze which,  handily,  is pink so should make any ...

Well,  tonight turned into quite a significant session. I really want to try fill the coolant system and check for leaks before I go much ...

A minor screw-up; the silicon pipe to the bottom of the header tank is 2cm too short,  meaning that it won't quite reach the header tank...

28? Days in February in a leap year? 66.6% of the Meaning of Life? Nope... the number of jubilee clips I've used on my cooling system!...

I've been waiting all week for a couple of pipes to finish off the cooling system but they haven't arrived - a weird failure of the ...

Just to be on the safe side, I took the car for a CAT scan: Results were purrrfect :-).  Sorry... With the answers from GBS on the co...

A little more progress on the cooling system: As is often the case,  I've been halted by a lack of parts - I need a few more pipe ...

Finally,  I got to use those pretty blue silicon pipes I ordered weeks ago. First off,  loosely attach the thermostat to the engine and th...

... I'm so excited! And I just can't hide.... OK,  enough of that,  sorry... The 'last chance saloon' tap arrived to try ...