build diary

June 7, 2004: It's been a busy weekend.
I spent the majority of it working on wiring - again. I'm cleaning up the mess that was behind the firewall, finalising the wire lengths and doing some more testing. Much to my chagrin, two brand new Hella relays were dead on delivery. That didn't impress me - but I did manage to get all the lights in the front half of the car working again, the starter spins and as soon as I have a chip for my ECU I'll try firing that up. Progress is being made fairly rapidly and I pretty much have to lock myself out of the garage otherwise I'd never sleep. I'm starting to fit body panels around the transmission and I'll be installing all the switches soon. If only I had my main transmission cover, that is. I'll give the original one another try and see if I can get that to fit- at least until CMC replaces it.

Almost all the votes for colour have been for the orange. My first mockup showed too much saturation for the orange - comparison with magazine photos show that. So I've toned it down in another mockup and, thanks to a suggestion by Jamie Ruderman, changed the front fenders to black. It looks good. The latest issue of EVO actually shows a Caterham demonstrator with black cycle fenders on the front. Some more photos: All orange with black fenders and orange fenders vs black fenders.

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