Had my gearbox back and refitted to the engine, never fitted a box with a plated diff... My god it's so unbalanced and a right nightmare to fit.
Went to set up the cables for the gear selections and when I went to pull it out of 5th both the cables were so close that they locked up so had to make up a spacer plate. I adjusted the cables back to how there were on the original selector tower where I knew they worked and then went about making myself the spacer to mate the linkage to where the cable wanted to be.
Works a treat now and I made a slot in the bottom to allow myself more adjustment, took a well hacksawing and filing but I'm very happy with how it turned out.
I came across Zoet Racing in Netherlands selling off 11 half worn used Dunlop Slicks that they used on their Lotus Exige race cars, worked out with postage £46 a tyre which is better than £220 a tyre new and £135 a tyre I was originally paying for Kumho V70A's before my engine blow up. At that price they were worth a go and should see me through a good few track days I think.
Not too happy with that slice in the top tyre, unsure if it was damaged via delivery but I think I will reject that one!
Since I have fitted the fibre glass grille which has removed my headlights I have been concerned about wet days and a few other people have commented about having no lights may mean I won't be allowed on track, so a cheap eBay buy for some LED lights.
They just need to be red and flash back and fore now.
Give the car a good bath then before it's first outing hopefully this weekend at Pembrey, should be a very good track so test the aero improvements with that long fast left hander! Just hope my balls are big enough and I get back into it after not being out on track for almost a year and half now.
And pulling the car out finally gives me chance to step back and see the wing from a distance.
A better photo of the carbon dash