Summertime

Some great drives in the last few weeks, including a visit to to the Festival of Speed at Goodwood.

One of the best new road cars there.

In other news, I've managed to resolve a few more rattles and areas of vibration, through the use of cable ties and sticky-backed foam!

The car now has a new propshaft, and that has also reduced the level of vibration. Kudos to Max, who managed to remove the old one and replace the new, defying the workshop manual by doing this without removing the diff or engine/gearbox. And also swapping the coupling at the diff end when he found that the flanges on the old propshaft and diff were non-standard (it seems a few left the factory like that).

Rear brakes adjusted (so the handbrake works again!), the bendix on the starter motor cleaned, exhaust mount reattached and engine oil, gearbox and diff topped up.

Finally for now, a view of the massive cars car at our local BMW dealer..... where it rained, proving that the Elan isn't entirely waterproof. More on that later.