Highs and Lows..

The team have had a busy couple of weeks trying to get the car ready for Anglesey, procuring new parts, designing new custom made widgets, and of course a fairly hefty chassis repair to boot. Everything was coming together nicely, such that this weekend (30th May & 1st June) it was planned that whilst the girls were all in France for Liz’ hen do, that the lads including young Oliver would camp out at Mad-racing TC to re-assemble the car, so that it would be spangley and new ready, for it’s outing at Anglesey on the 6th, 7th&8th June.
All was going well until mid-afternoon Saturday, when JB mentioned something about momentous occasion and re-starting the engine after the front half of car rebuild. I wondered what he was making such a song and dance about, the engine always started and in my head, always would. The only thing was that it didn’t. Not a cough, wheeze or a pop. Attention suddenly turned from paintwork, fettling and finalising to – re-think, we don’t have an engine.
Satuday afternoon was spent trying to fault diagnose the problem, but with no success. And ended up with us retiring for the evening to scratch our heads, and try to figure out what the problem was. Sometime around midday Sunday, Mike found the problem, a shorted pair of wires that go to the crank position sensor. Without this signal, the EEK didn’t know if the engine was turning or not, and therefore when to send a spark. Consequently, the engine was dead.
After a neat repair, the shorted wires were no more, and the engine instantly leapt into life.
Thank god…we now have a fighting chance of making Anglesey. Huge thanks to Des, Mike JB & Will for all their hard work this weekend, between us all something like 100man-hours this weekend alone, the car is taking great shape, so thankyou guys.

Mike has a test day on Friday, then over the course of Sat & Sun (7th & 8th June) he has 3 races…watch this space for his update early w/c 9th June.

Al