Skoda Rally Blog

…. OK, so I didn’t buy the gearbox. Mainly ‘cos ?900 is a lot of dosh, and I’ve just been hit for a ?600 tax bill! But I did get another 12 wheels (4 with pirelli corsa tyres that look sticky as you like, 5 with colway forest and three bare), a kevlar/carbon sumpguard with alloy crossmember that looks fantastic and weighs next to nothing, a pair of front calipers, a pair of footwell treadplates, an exhaust, a pair of lightweight rear doors (which are seriously light), and a pair of driveshafts. So I think I’m fully sparesed-up for the next year or two there. If anything else breaks, I’ll cry!

Got the wheels balanced on the car, which made a huge difference; one was 85G out, and now it drives really smoothly at speed, which will make a big difference. Only a few days to go now, until it’s ‘own up time’ as it were. Saturday is looking stupidly busy for me though; hardly ideal preparation for a first event, but life’s like that…..