Skoda Rally Blog

Having got back from Banjul and spent the rest of the time since working a lot, it’s now time to turn to preparations for the Sunseeker, which is next Friday and Saturday in Bournemouth. Fortunately there are few things to do to the Felicia, and for the first time in 3 years we’ll be running in class B9 instead of a homologated class. The reason for this? When I bought the engine and other car I also got a set of Weber Alpha throttle bodies, and it’s a chance to run the car with those on – they’ll make the car go a bit better and sound fantastic.

Aside from that there’s not much to do – just clean and check everything, sort out the loose strut top issue (which is to be done by drilling and tapping the nuts to have a grub screw fitted to lock them in place), and give the old beast a good check over. Maybe I’ll even get round to fitting the green stripes in addition to the red ones!