Relentless Update: 13th May 2011

Progress is going pretty well on the Relentless Topolino, were slowly getting the car back together and were really happy with it. We have tried to update the car a little this time around and make it easier to work on between rounds, only small things such as proper push fit air lines but these make removing and refitting the Lenco gearbox just that bit quicker and easier when working on the car. Also large changes such as the Trick Titanium clutch can will make our lives easier as lifting out the 55lb Browell can was not always fun, especially when you catch your fingers too...so we hope that with the changes all over the car it makes servicing the car easier and more efficient.

As promised, I have also taken some more photos of the progress of the car its now a rolling chassis and the 3rd member has also been fitted, before the wheels were all fitted we gave them a thorough polish with our Autoglym supplied metal polish, they came up a treat, cannot recommend Autoglym's products highly enough, we use them throughout the car and every product we use is faultless.

Also had the fun task of bleeding the brakes, god I hate brake fluid, horrible stuff! But when fitting back up we also found an issue causing the brakes to bind so fixed this too, every little bit helps.

As seen from below photo we have still yet to fit the seat panels, puke tank and silicon hoses (http://www.siliconhoses.com) , we actually found a small hole in the puke tank so will weld this up before refitting to make sure no oil/fuel can escape onto the track or tyres.

Next job is to rebuild the engine, we broke a lifter at the last event so just want to double check everything is OK, we will replace the camshaft and lifter but fingers crossed nothing else!

Thanks for reading.