Zero Life

 So GBS delivered the cable and shortened throttle kit in quick time. The new pedal is identical except for the location of the fulcrum: Fit...

 With another sunny but cold day beckoning, I popped out for a short run with my son in his car. All going well until - PING - there goes my...

 Holy Cow, what an horrendous couple of days! A couple of posts ago, I worried about changing anything in case it endangered my Wales trip, ...

 So time to try sort out my hot-start problems. Online research suggested fuel starvation is the most likely problem and the most likely cau...

So once again, as soon as I take the insulation tape off the wiring on the ignition plug, a wire drops out! No wonder my starting was flaky....

After bonding the boot panels in,  time for some carpeting work. The glue is a real pain,  needing to be warmed up to get it to flow. Just a...

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...

Been a bit of a detour as I had problems with my motorbike over the last week or 2. Also, after the excitement of starting my engine,  my ...

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 ...

... yup,  the steering lock does work. Sorry,  didn't mean to get you all excited :-).  Yes,  the reason I couldn't turn the boss wa...

Next up were holes in the firewall for the battery cables. The wiper motor arrived and I sited and drilled holes for it in the firewall. Tha...

A post on the RHOCAR forum about my thermostat conundrum brought up an interesting suggestion - make a hole in the thermostat for the sensor...

Just finished the latest GBS kit car,  the GBS mOne (minus one,  geddit? ) :                        Not sure if it will get through IV...

No big step forward but lots of consolidation. I'd put the large driver side tunnel panel on and that's the last panel for the for...

A few days break and back to work... The inner pedal tube I've been trying to file down is obviously made of adamantium - after about ...

Turns out the only thing I thought I'd done right yesterday was,  in fact,  wrong :-).  Well,  not horrendous but the passenger footwell...

Well,  after a sweltering time in Spain,  back to... er...  hot England and some build problems. Firstly,  painting the front calipers is ...

Not a huge one,  I hope but... on collection day,  Richard at GBS suggested I clear the powder coat out of the threads for the seat belts wi...

A couple of hours of...er...doing very little.  I was planning of continuing with drilling the rear panel but then realised that I've be...