Had one of "those" days yesterday, i.e pretty boll*cks.
Ben and i thought we'd head over to our local breakers to see if i could get a speedo cable as the old one had snapped.
But literaly ran into problems on the way there. Going up a dual carriage way, aproaching a car in front, pulled out to go round it, only then do i see something in the lane, i didn't fancy clouting the sump so tried to avoid it last minute stylee, but wacked it could and proper with my front wheel.
It looked like rubber but the noise it made and the damage tells a different story, almost straight away it was pulling right, so i knew i had a puncture, so rolled it to a stop on the hard shoulder- see grass.
Whatever it was had spit the tyre sidewall from rim to tread and dented my rim aswell, not a happy bunny. So on with the oversize tyre and steel and we limped it the mile or so to the scrappys. Basically we got two tyres fitted to the back for the good price of £30, but money i didn't need to spend.
The upside is it doesn't rev it's arse off as much now due to the bigger rolling radius, but it does look a bit like a dragster.
However i did manage to get a speedo cable, and i'm going back on Sat to get the prop, bell housing and sump, they also had a fresh in 1.7 so i'm going to get the bottom hose off of that (Adam) and whatever other parts it yeilds although it's properly rusty and spider infested
Then to top it off on the way home my mum rang to tell me the family dog has had a fit and had to be put down this morning, he had a good inings being 13, so like 97 in dog years
And today i've been messing about with a front splitter, i think it improves the front no end, but scrapes on my driveway and it's still not lowered yet
Todays efforts produced this- Before:
After:
And check out the dragster stance from the side:
Big tyre:
