Mad March affairs

9th March 2009
The start of this month has been utter madness my buggy has been off road for some months and this has only been reiterated in my head by DVLA sending out a tax reminder. This month is going to be utter madness. With my new engine still in dry dock on the living room table in boxes. The past winter months have bought an appathy in my head about the time I have spent in search of this new engine. My original estimates of the cost of this rebuild have been re worked out time and time again the high dollar price has caused prices to sore. With this said I have to look harder for parts and have been in search of some super flow heads. The first set I found I lost due to a ebay failure .Luckily I was approached by another Vzi member who offered me a similar deal. I am hoping this will be more fruitful. I have also decided to sell some of my old engine components and I hope they will be well loved as they have been on my buggy.

In the meantime i have had my case bead blasted and it has returned to me in a wonderful condition. I still need to have some engineering work done on the case. I hope the engineering work will be successful and will happen after I have aquired the heads.

In the meantime MOT and taxation looms at the end of March and I have a couple of issues outstanding before the buggy will be ready for an MOT. The first being the holes I had cut for the Drag bar that would need to be fibreglassed.

I decieded to use polymer fibreglass from a modelk shop instead of the usual kits that is sold in the garages in my area. This is a higher quality product and gives a longer cure time so it can be worked to provide a better fit. I made peices of card board to fit the holes and coaded the surface of the card with some household wax polish the hard block type. The cardboard was then mated with the body work so as to provide a framework for the fibreglass to sit against. I was careful to try and match the battery box indent that was on the other side of the car . The result is shown in the photograph. It hasnt been cleaned up as get and the underside has also not been fibre glassed. I am wonering whether the hole body needs to come of to do this and If it does I want to then seal the inside of the body work with a stiple effect. In the meantime its been sealed and should now go through an MOT.