Have not posted in quite a while as life has not been very good - cancer in the family :-( deaths, suicides, acid accident near blindness, more motoring woes and the Belgium accident is still ongoing.
On the Audi front the young lad has now changed his story saying I hit him trying to avoid the "phantom" car!!!!!! So that is 10 months this has been going on for.
Bashed the Elan into a roundabout after hitting some diesel on a roundabout the day after my birthday in January.
Other motoring woes - my son borrowed my "daily" and a big Audi pulled out and side swiped the car. To cut a long story short - it got repaired - lovely but the repairers damaged the other side!!!! WTF. After much gnashing of teeth and complaining to the Insurance company they repaired that also.
Finally found out what the "rattling" noise in the Audi was - some internal brake caliper part was fractured and this was causing the noise. You cannot buy this part separately from a whole caliper! So new caliper fitted and noise cured.
The green Excel has had a few issues - the new exhaust has been banging on the bodywork over deep potholes. Lots of adjusting and tensioning has sorted the problem, but while under the car I noticed both shockers on the back were leaking! Someone had removed them at some point using Mole grips and left marks on the shafts which punctured the seals.
Sent them back to Avo with the assistance of Lotusbits - thanks Mike for lending me the temporary ones while Avo refurbished the damaged ones. New shafts and seals and as good as new.
I got a pair of 4pot Wilwood calipers at a good price and thought I will fit them to one of the Excels. However, costs were mounting and so was the complication and time involved so I was going to shelf the idea until a friend (Uwe) who is a CAD/CAM engineer stepped in.
I went over to his place and he measured and measured and mocked up a bracket to fit the Wilwoods.
He then found a chap at Brands Hatch who could manufacture them in Aircraft Aluminium at a good price, excellent news.
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