I've had a very productive couple of weeks on the car, in no particular order:
- Engine loom installed. Hole drilled for bulkhead connector to chassis/cockpit side loom.
- Brakes bled. Initially we had a slightly spongy pedal but tracked this down to some slight play in the hydraulic handbrake mech. Once I rectified this the pedal feels great. I am hopeful the brake performance and bias will be pretty good out of the box.
- Clutch bled. Got lucky with this one and the matching of standard S1 lotus master cylinder to standard Ferrari slave cylinder has turned out to give an almost perfect pedal feel and weight. The clutch seems to engage and disengage smoothly. I believe the plates have only 17,000 miles on so hopefully there is a goo bit of life left in it yet.
- Rear wing endplates made. I had been holding off on this as I couldn't decide what to make these out of. In the end I plumped for the same ABS-based material I've used for the side skirts. The only downside of this material is I can't quite figure out how I'm going to create the louvres we want. More thinking required..!! (but they will do for now!). The geometry of the endplates has been suggested by a friend of mine who is an aerodynamicist for Williams F1 team.
- Diffuser consctuction. Started out by extending the standard S1 elise diffuser and using that as template. Will do a full post on the diffuser once it's complete...
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