Welcome to the first time pass club. Did you find the test wasn't as bad as you imagined?

Get your docs off ASAP, I went with the minimal approach as to receipts and sent the manual as well, just in case.

Mine took 3 weeks to get sorted but it felt like an eternity.
If you need any help with docs shoot me a pm.

Also take a copy of your mac cert, as you won't get it back and if they loose it your stuffed.

Well done, looks really good.

Congratulations David!

Congratulations, you must be a well happy chappy.


J

Nice one David

Great news well done and a great build ,hope you have many years fun in her:D

Well done david first time pass too
Gotta get my build going again very jealous

Well done. Got mine at Carlisle Next Thursday. Newcastle was my second choice.

congrats and well done, gives us all a boost seeing you get it
gary

Congrats David, I'm very happy for you, that's really great! :)

Congratulations on a first time pass

Arfon

Post iva mods
 

Well as the dvla are still sitting on my paperwork....... I though I would do a couple of mods while I'm waiting.

The first one is I have installed a fire extinguisher. Only a small one but It may help me out in the future.

The next one is I always wanted a carbon fibre dashboard. I ordered one the other week online form the company who took over from gts tuning. I was worried that I may never receive the item after looking at some of the feedback on here about the previous owners some time ago. I think he is now building gt40 kits!

Anyway it turned up. And I fitted it tonight. I'm really pleased with it and in my new found mission to "add lightness" it is 1kg lighter than my aluminium one. This means I'm down to 572kg!

Looks nice,dont fit the tax disc holder just yet,you might not need it.
From October you will no longer get a tax disc but still have to tax it.

bit of a bugger really cause he wont be able to sell it either :(

If I get my tax disc this month (looking like a waste of money at the moment for september) I was thinking about keeping it intact without cutting it out as there will probably some collectors in the future looking for a last edition!!

I spoke to the DVLA this morning and after another 30 minutes wait. They should get to my application by Thursday or Friday.... Its a good job the weather is bad!

David

You have a point there David,shame they cant get their act together.

I received a call from the dvla today. They have started processing my application and initially rejected it as the vin number was not shown on the invoice from Saturn sports cars. After I reminded the lady that the vin number was actually issued by the dvla she said that it was ok. She is going to request a number (age related j) and a tax disc and I should have this by next week. Bit longer than I had wished but as long as I get it I will be a happy bunny.

David

Progress ?:rolleyes:

The dvla sound like a right bunch of f**kw*ts. Read some other stuff recently about them and kit car applications and I don't think they know their arse from
their elbow. Sorry for being so sweary but I'm dreading trying to be tactful with these numbnuts.

Bang hiss whoops!
 

I took my car for n epic spin up the Northumberland Coast on Sunday mornings. I would say some of the best driving roads with views of lots of nice castles and sea. All was going really well. The alternator belt had been a bit squeaky for a couple of days and then snapped. Bit of a b*mmer as this also turns the water pump. The first I realised was when I thought there was misty rain but it turned out to be my coolant! I pulled over, the temperature was really gig and there was steam coming from my engine. ( not the expansion bottle )

Hopefully the head is ok as there was still plenty of water in but fingers crossed. If it ain't the head then I might need to replace one of the hoses or a core plug or something. Failing that I will buy a replacement engine on eBay for 50p

My son pointed out that the car looked like. Space ship with all the ste coming from underneath the dash, engine and through all the gaps!

David

That's a real bugger David, hope it doesn't turn out to be too bad!!!:eek:

If you do pull the head off bring it down and I will skim it.;)

I must admit that overheating is one thing im paranoid about. I keep an eye on the guage all the time. I think its because my last kit suffered from it.

Cheers
Stot

Cheers Paul

I am due to get my new alternator belt tomorrow so will fit it and see what damage there has been. I'm interested in where the steam was coming from though

David

You might find a split hose by the sound of it,if you used the old ones.

Once mine is done the warning lights will be in wind deflector on the scuttle.

That's a good idea. A winter mod for me I think. The silicone pipes that I used going into the idle control valve were very cheap and flimsy so it's probably them that has gone. They have no reinforcement in them

Something nice and easy would be nice.......:(

Fixed
 

I found a small pipe under the throttle body and it had a small hole in it. Luckily a piece of 8mm fuel hose fitted perfectly!

I've ran it for about 30 mins and all seems fine

David

Good find :D

Nice one !;)

Just read through your entire thread, lovely build and one I will be referring back to once I start building.

More finishing touches
 

I actually took my car out for a spin the other weekend. Bit chilly but wasn't too wet and no salt on the road.

I received my build plaque through the post the other week but it doesn't really fit the "look of my build" so I had a look on the internet to see if I could have my own done caterham style.

Here it is. Let me know what you think. If you like it I can give you the web address of where I got it from.

Aeroscreen
 

I have been looking for an aeroscreen for ages. I did buy a one from here that needed a bit of work. I believe it was a gillham second and I unwrapped it and threw it straight in the bin. (Waste of £25)

I was looking at ebay the other day and there was a race aeroscreen designed for a caterham so I put in a bid and got it for £5.70.

Anyway it turned up tonight and it's a really nice fit. It needs a bit of a polish but looks nice on the car. Let's hope it actually deflects the air!

Here is a link. Flickr seem to have changed their website so I cannot get the http.farm code for it.......

https://flic.kr/p/qYYaEy

You will be fitting a heater next :p

Something neat and tidy down the side of the of the scuttle will help too.

Good find.:)

I fitted the aeroscreen and took the car for a quick blast yesterday and it seemed to work!

My next project which I am going to start tomorrow evening is a boot space so I have some where to store my waterproof!

Boot is all fitted now

My next question is.....

When I take the car for a drive the level of the coolant goes up and doesn't go back down again. If I then bleed the system of air it goes back down.

The system is not loosing any coolant

I have the expansion bottle plumbed into where the heater matrix used to be. I have used a t piece and the connection has the same size outlet going to the expansion bottle as the feed going back into the engine. Could this be the problem?

Mine's the same. I think the bottle allows the expansion of the fluid to push the air from the bottle but the bottle doesn't allow any air back in maybe due to the water covering the air outlet when it expands. Not sure?!?:confused:

I think skov has the same problem

David

Normally the cap should allow air in and out as the system cools,if you have to bleed it its possible air is in the system because of the way its plumbed in and usually the header tank feeds the bottom hose.

Most japs have a separate tank so the rad is all ways full of coolant and the rad top has a pipe to the tank and that fills rad as engine cools and coolant contracts.