Had some major exams recently so been spending all my time revising for them, so not much progress.

Have been stocking up on a few things lately though in preparation for big progress.



The friday afternoon after my exams I serviced the car, new fully esther-synthetic race-spec oil, oil filter & fuel filter, iridium spark plugs, magnecor ignition leads. And a pollen filter.

And then all weekend it rained. And rained. And rained.

And on sunday morning I packed my car up to go back, and there was a swimming pool in the passenger footwell. Yep, the damn pollen filter seal.

So hired an industrial dehumidifier and had that running in the car 18 hours a day, for 7 days. Extracted about 30 litres of water, most of it from the air, but it dried out most of the carpet and the spongey sound deadening under the carpet.

Temporarily bodge-jobbed the seal by using some tile silicon sealant until new pollen filter seals arrived.



Then this weekend I've got on with some preparation for the next update. Fitted an ST170 handbrake, not much but a little touch, silver button matches the gear stick.




Stripped the ST170 rear disc setup off the beam I had in the garage... obtained some replacement refurbed calipers and have wire-brushed the carriers etc ready for painting.






Replacement vs old caliper




Also got hold of a handbrake cable



And, something for the front too...








Oh and the sports cat is giving the lambda sensor some funny readings, so the EML keeps coming on with P0420 - "catalyst system efficiency below threshold bank 1". So got a lambda sensor spacer to take it out of the flow so much, and one of these, for less than the price Ford wanted to clear the code, and not much more than my local garage wanted:



Cleared the code and checked all other parameters and everything is a-ok.