Skoda Rally Blog

A quick update.  Firstly, I have a confirmed entry on the Longmoor Loco stages, which is held on the 30th December.  A 2WD-only event, it’s always popular and is apparently great fun.  It’s going to be my sister’s first event as a navigator, so it should be a laugh if nothing else!

Next up, I’ve done a bit of work on the Seat this weekend; as mentioned before both sills had some damage, which was really accumulated stone damage which had then been left to rust a bit; all surface rust really, although the rear half centimetre or so of each sill had a little hole in it, so I made up some nice repair sections and have welded them in, then cleaned up the entire sill and they’ve been painted.  It’s very handy that Cupra yellow is pretty close to Hammerite yellow – later on I will paint them with the correctly-coloured paint but at the moment I’m more worried about protection than aesthetics.  The sills could do with having fibreglass guards made up, so I may take this on as a project at some point, particularly as I have a bunch of matting left in the garage from another project.

I’ve got a flowed cylinder head coming the weekend after next, so with any luck the car will be up and running soon, which will be good; I’m really hoping to get it all done and MOTed before Longmoor, and if possible I may do the event in that, but more than likely it’ll be the Skoda.  But alas another week of work beckons, so little if anything will get done until the weekend, other than the Terratrip 404 which I’ve removed this afternoon to check it over; it seems most of the buttons don’t work well and it beeps constantly so I’m going to see what’s going on with it!