Eunos Chump

Behold, I am on the road to the land of BOOST! Well, I've just taken the fog lights off actually. They need to go because more cooling will be required, especially when the MIGHTY INTERCOOLER OF BOOST slots in there too... assuming I can afford the insurance. The fog lamps were bugger-all use anyway, but with the covers removed they look like sinister robot eyes and I want to re-use them. Powerful boot illumination perhaps? Awesome floodlit glovebox? I'm advertising for a replacement gearbox, the chattering is getting on my wick and the synchromesh is getting a little slow. I don't think the existing clutch will survive long when BOOST is applied either. The Mighty Benz provided excellent service in France recently, covering 1400 miles in a week and restoring it's honour. It's done almost 160K now though, how much longer before something big breaks?

Good evening, I am a robot. I was entered in a competition at a child's school yesterday and despite being easily the best I lost to a tinfoil covered tissue box. This was a most foolish decision that has doomed the human race, for despite my dummy (which is just there to disable my battle circuitry) I have mighty killing power! Fear my Delete button weak carbon-based units!

This might have been good had it not been for the constant rain and wind, it was like bloody winter . Couldn't find any bits for the Mazda, and the only cars for sale were either overpriced or unwanted stuff like '80s Mercedes and Jaguar saloons. My dream of a £500 Princess 2200 remains unrealised.

Highlight of the day had to be the Pastryboy - Len Hawkins' vision of the car of the future, first penned in the early '90s, is reality.

Russ and I went to Goodwood on Friday, hoping to avoid the crowds - how wrong we were. I don't want to think what the toilets are going to look like on Sunday afternoon! Lots of expensive noisy metal, expensive food and Hooray Henrys. Not as much fun as I'd hoped, it was hard to get near anything interesting. The photo below shows how close I got to the Ferrari F1 cars (and they're not even this year's model), and McLaren was even worse.

I've had an annoying clonk develop from the NS front over the past few weeks which sounded like a worn balljoint, but no wear was evident. My brother Darren got to the bottom of it though (after taping up the anti-roll bar bush to rule it out), it was the brake caliper. One of the sliding pins didn't have enough grease and was rattling gently - hardly noticeable at the caliper, but in the car it sounded much louder. Repacking it solved it. I also lobbed a blob of grease between the clutch release lever and the slave cylinder, to stop it rattling. The cam angle sensor oil seal has let go now, but I should have anticipated this when I tampered with it and replaced it then. 99p would have hardly broken the bank, but you can buy an ice cream for that... and I chose unwisely.

Cured a rattle that had developed on the bonnet latch using the mystical power of electrical insulation tape. I've finally set the timing from 10 degrees to 14 (the timing mark on the crank pulley is tiny ), and though it doesn't make it go any faster (I checked this most thoroughly), it does feel more enthusiastic, especially at low RPM. So recommended. Took a trip to the Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset yesterday, this is also recommended. Spotted a number of cars I've owned in the past, which really brings home the fact that I am getting OLD. There's an Eunos Roadster too, and despite it having 100,000 KM less than mine it's considerably more tatty. There's also an MGF though, so it looks like they're collecting any old tat...