The eternal rebuild

[Peter Shattock]

That evening I cut off the boot and unpicked a connector and fitted it on my existing one so we were hopefully good to go in the morning.
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[Peter Shattock]

I fitted up the lead fired the car up but it was still on 3 cylinders and you could see some unbury fuel tripping from the exhaust joint of number 4 which was the cylinder with the lead issue. The assumption at this point was that it had killed the plug. I switched the car off and checked to see I’d not missed anything else. Nothing obvious found, but having checked everything and reset the TPS I started the car again and it was back to 4 cylinders. I do wonder if it was a bit of heat which recovered the plug but can’t be certain. I took it for a quick drive to check and to try and weigh the car. The drive was fine, but they were not weighing cars when I was there so it was back to the pits but happily with car on 4 cylinders.

There was due to be a bit of sketchy weather Saturday with some on and off rain, but the forecast for Sunday was really wet so I decided to call it a day and pack up and head home. The only reason I was at the track this weekend was to drive the car there run a 10 and drive it home. With two of the three aims completed I was thinking more about driving home than another run particularly given the clutch issues I’d experienced and not actually diagnosed or fixed.

Decision made I packed everything back in the car had some lunch with the guys before heading home.
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[Peter Shattock]

The drive back was all good but for the rain for the last 45 minutes and it really did rain but the car was all good and pulling back onto the driveway at home this time really was a big deal as this plan to run a 10 in a n/a 1776 street car took some doing.
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[Peter Shattock]

Having arrived home a day early I decided to get the motor out of the car the following day to check the clutch. It looks like the pressure plate has gone south not entirely sure why yet, but I’m working on that and have a plan to be out again at the end of July with a happy clutch and another change which I hope will help improve the cars performance a bit too.
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[Peter Shattock]

That’s about it. I’ll get some videos up on Instagram and try and remember how to put a link up here.

The moment I pulled onto the drive at home job done!

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[wolfswest]

Super Super Cool!  Well done Peter!

[ibg]

What a great story to wake up to 
well done
what clutch are you using at the moment?

[Peter Shattock]

Thanks both it was a really good weekend.

Clutch is a Kennedy stage 1 180mm pressure plate with a black magic disc.

This has been the best solution to date for what I’m doing and will be what I’m sticking with for now. I have a garage night tomorrow night so hope to have a plan if it’s not fixed.

[j-f]

Great story and thanks to take the time to write it up 

[andrewlandon67]

The next challenge ought to be figuring out a way to get heater boxes to work on it, so you'll have your 10 second driver and be comfortable too!

Seriously though, this car's such a masterpiece, congrats on finally getting to your goal!