Skoda Rally Blog

A while ago I met a guy on the Britishrally.co.uk forum who does vinyl graphics. He needs a website, I wanted some stickers, so we came to an arrangement. He sent them a couple of weeks ago, but they only turned up yesterday. So I set to making the car look a bit better. I know that at the end of the day it doesn’t matter one bit what it looks like, but I thought I’d make it look a bit nicer, so I went for the “works” look – the works favorits had green “V”s all over them, and I thought they looked good, and would also be simple to reproduce. So I’ve got a bunch of green Vs with red edges, and a nice new sunstrip (instead of the tank tape that was there before) with my work website URL on there, and driver and co-driver names for the rear doors…

… Ah, the rear doors. I wasn’t really happy with the lightweight ones I had fitted, ‘cos (a) they were the wrong shade of white (yes, I know, I know), and (b) I didn’t like the way the perspex windows fitted, just being screwed in, and looking tatty. So I cut the guts out of the original doors, and made the perspex fit into where the original windows did. It looks a lot better, although the perspex I’ve used is crap, ‘cos it scratches if you just look at it. Not good, especially at ?30 a go!

I can’t put all the stickers on though, ‘cos I’m going to replace the bonnet with a lightweight fibreglass one. Pity.

The throttle bodies arrived yesterday, and they’re going to be great. Biggest problem will be making a manifold though – that looks like a major undertaking, especially as the inlet tubes need to go from 35mm (throttle body) to 28mm (inlet port). That could be tricky. Answers on a postcard, please….