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UPDATE: So heard from Troy at Northampton Motorsport today and Specialist Components have only advised the same as what Troy has already tried. We are now going to send the ECU back to them for them to have a look at. Dependent on that, if nothing can solve it I think I am probably looking at a...

I am pre-empting the brakes making a mess so thinking if I polished/waxed and sealed the areas I will never get to again it should hopefully help rinsing. ha I am kinda close, but as you have probably seen, not being able to communicate with it is frustrating. I will look into the Heli-tape. I...

How is this show and shiny? I haven't seen any polishing.... you want to see that get into my thread. ha. Just someone doing it properly, why would you do it any other way if you have the skill and facilities to do a good job that doesn't need re-doing?

Why did they cancel? What you having done? I have a bodyshop contact in the West Country, I could ask around?

Ha, brilliant, you went back to find that.... You know mine isn't finished. It won't even bloody start

Nope, I was also aware of that. Would be good to catch up/actually meet a few people

Not sure I am that much further in front if the ECU is just flat out not working...lol Near Colshill/Atherstone.

When I was speaking with Troy on Saturday he said they seem to have issues quite a bit and the support network for them isn't the best. Its a pain. I am really hoping its easily sortable but I don't hold much hope. I am wondering if its totally f*cked about changing to a new ECU.

is it wrong I want the dash just cause it matches my colour scheme :)o_O

Mallory would be a good shout and isn't that far from where we have moved to either. Mine still has a fair bit on the snag list so I won't be rushing things but would be keen to get across there.

I think it the half bumper and exhaust is definitely a love/hate thing. Yep Deutsch Tech have a couple of full time exhaust fabricators there now. They have a lot of nice stuff in there. Worth a follow on Instagram.

Hopefully simple fix with the ECU. Troy is going to get in contact with Specialist Components and go from there on Monday, if it needs to be sent off it needs to be sent off

UPDATE: Well its not good, but its not too bad... yet We could not get comms with the Specialist components ECU at all. We tested the pin-outs for the ECU plug, tried 2 different leads but it wasn’t playing ball. Quite frustrating to not even get it running but obviously nothing catastrophic...

UPDATE: Exhaust has been completed. They had the car probably longer than they needed but it gave them a good amount of time with it and worked logistically quite well for me. I decided to go double box on it to make sure the DB's were 100% going to be under most UK track days. I initially...

Blimey this has taken me a while to get through. A few posts back I said I needed to read through the lot... now I have and am up to speed. I never knew you had even changed shells... ha Glad you got there in the end with the brake lines, doesn't sound like a good experience though - thats a...

UPDATE: Yesterday came and went and the car didn't get moved... I had a shocker.... I drove from Birmingham to Milton Keynes only to find that I didn't have my house keys. This meant not only could I not get in the house, but I couldn't get in the garage. I had to cancel the move and put it off...

UPDATE: Just a couple hours spent today in prep for moving the car on tuesday. First job was to get the car off the axle stands... I thought this was going to be easy, not so much. I got the rear on the ground, chocked it and then started to lower the front drivers side, then ran into a...

Sh*tter on the break-in. Know exactly how this feels when my garage got broken into. Hope you get it sorted chap. Good progress too

UPDATE: As previously mentioned there were a few bits I wanted to tie up before the car goes off for the exhaust build and then mapping. I managed to get a fair few of these done today so almost there. I received the Oil catch tank yesterday from Ralloy so I started up my mocking up and marking...

I will obviously be updating this with how it goes. Troy mapped Tony Hunters car which I believe was running specialist components/Typhoon/EC1 (whatever you want to call it) and ITB's so I am confident he is the right guy for the job, handy that he is not to far away either. Cheers chap. It is...

UPDATE: So Sunday saw the day when we aimed to fire the car up. I was bricking it to be honest. It has sat for about 8 years as an engine so I didn't know what to think would happen although it has currently held all its fluids and Chris had previously mentioned that compression seemed good...

I am glad I had Chris from Beaniesport there as he knew straight away.

UPDATE: At the tail end of last week I had a few jobs to do before the attempted start-up on the weekend (previously mentioned in my last post). Some quite simple jobs like the dash earths.... And some a that needed a little more consideration and calculation. Like the fuel line from the...

UPDATE: So there is a real push to get the car running by the end of this week. With the exhaust and mapping booked for 2 weeks time I have set myself the goal of having it running 2 weeks before hand. If it isn't then I will probably be cancelling the mapping. This has brought up some hurdles...

UPDATE: The following day as mentioned I did remove the tape and protective film... the protective film was a bit of a pain as I had to undo all the slider bolts on the front windows, but all is well. The dash wires were all re-tidied and plugged into the windscreen and the dashboard put back...

UPDATE: So a fair bit has happened since the last update, touchwood it has been going relatively smoothly. With the window fitter turning up last week there was a real push to get anything I could out of the way, this was mainly body panels, I could of moved them into the house which would of...

Sorry mate, I totally forgot to reply. It is probably and hopefully sorted now. See one of my next updates.

That new cross member gives you so much more room. Nice work. Jealous of your ability to weld.... I need to get on that I think. I got my shell rolled over on mattresses in my garage (bit pikey) and then stripped it all back. I then had a thin layer of protection added again. Not as much weight...

I get it if it had a second purpose for sure... Just a thought and putting a finger in the air. You are pretty clued up on timing aren't you? I may pm you dependent on your answer... lol

Don't leave that there.... I don't agree, I think that is just as ugly.... and adds weight too