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November 27, 2005: I've decided that muffler will have to go.
The next size down should be just about perfect. I also decided today was the day to get the hood done. It's been very frustrating work though. I annealed the aluminum but it's not keen to bend. This forced me back to my wrestling technique used on the first hood. I'm not convinced it's turning out as well as that one did, perhaps it's a different alloy. There's a small imperfection in the bend (a medium shallow dent) that will be fairly obvious when light reflects off the hood. I'll have to see if I can tease it out somehow. Doing this job again was not part of the plan and I'm not enjoying it one bit. I have yet to find a picture of a hot rod with the louvres on backwards as they are on my original hood so the mistake was not just a matter of miscommunication.

I took some measurements of the suspension pickups today. I just have to measure the front uprights and I'll be able to model the suspension and see how well it's working. I could do this with the existing Excel sheet from the US Locost group but I'd rather design my own little suspension analysis program. Hey, I'm in this to learn.

Skip Cannon is a Miata-owning friend of mine who's caught the Seven bug after driving a Caterham SV at the Aspen track day a few weeks back. He wants to run a Miata motor in it though. He's not a web junkie like me but he does have a bit of a site up on the project.

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