Skoda Rally Blog

About 2 months ago, I drew up a “plan” – outlining what I’d need to get done on the car on any given weekend or day off. And managed to stick to this so far, despite last week’s engine disaster.

But today I’ve been fortunate enough to get Internet access at work (not usually the case), and have some free time (often the case where I am today), and managed to get ahead – I’ve rejigged the schedule as a result of this, and hopefully having spent a bunch of money today on paint, oil cooler parts, sumpguard mountings, a gear puller and other little bits and pieces should mean that this weekend will see the car pretty much ready to go, aside from the possible addition of the gearbox/LSD. My initial fumblings with the gear kit that I now have (long story) aren’t too promising – there’s a couple of parts that look to be wrongly sized…..