In between my two jobs I wasn't finding much spare time for this lately. It had a few weird electrical issues, with the lights doing strange things, which turned out to be the chassis earth under the air box. The fuel pump was also making some strange noises, kind of clicking and not sounding like it was running smoothly. I did wonder if it was on it's way out, but some messing made me wonder if it was another earth issue. I turned the ignition on with the fan on and it was clicking. However, a little later, I had the fan off and turned the ignition on and it didn't click, but did sound a bit up and down.

On another note, I put a couple of 17" wheels on with slicks to have a look at arch clearance. I knew the front would be bad, as the lower arms have been extended, pushing the front wheels forward in the arch. I'd hoped the pikey arch extensions on the rear would have given me plenty of clearance, but they appear to have been positioned even more strangely than I thought. There's lots of clearance for travel, but they're not exactly centred on the axle line!

Anyway, through shear luck, the modified lower arms mean that the wheel base is pretty much identical to an Escort Cosworth, so I hoped I would able to get away with some GRP Escort Cosworth front wings to solve the issues on the front, and then possibly fit some Cosworth rear quarters at some stage too, as that should fix the rears. On a positive note, the 17s looked an awful lot better than the standard MK6 wheels! There's a degree or two of camber on the front too, the big wheels really seem to accentuate it!