Fitting the Sidescreens

Sidescreen held in place with masking tape, so that I can mark them in the right place to fit the lift of hinges. Its a bit of a job a case of measure twice drill once, get it wrong and its game over!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nearside sidescreen fitted. Now to do the same thing again to the offside.

Offside screen in place. Note how the sidescreen fits under the lip of the hood to keep the rain water out. (well I hope thats how it works! time well tell LOL) Just the two side mirrors to fit at some point.

A New Hood for the Hood

The hood frame down and held in place with a press stud on either side of the rear panel

The original hood frame modified to fit the new hood cover
Note the surrey top still rolled up on the roll over bar.

This photo shows the original hood fitted to the S7
back 1993. Note the small quarter windows in the
side which gave not very good visibility.

The new hood in place. The hood its self is held on with press studs around the windscreen and the rear GRP panel.

Here we can see the rear of the hood. Note the bigger quarter windows. With the hood now on I have all the fun and games of fitting the new side screens. Will update you all on that job soon.

Trevor's Sylva Mojo build

Trevor Bennett a member of the Thames Valley area Hoods has just started a new build of a Sylva Mojo kit.
The kit itself is on order and Trevor already has his donor car.
So why not pop over and have a look at his new blog spot.

http://sylvamojo.blogspot.com/

The above photos show what the kit will look like when it is finished

Mis-fire

Back at the end of August the Hood was layed up for 5-6 weeks due to an accident I had in another car.
The Brands Hatch kit car show was its first run out in all this time and as you can see from Beckys post on the show the day didn't start the way we had planned. The Hood had a bad mis-fire which I traced down to the spark plugs which I just gave a quick clean and off we went.
Since then there has been a mis-fire only at high revs, so with a TVH meeting tomorrow night it was time to replace them.
So tonight I have fitted a new set of NGK spark plugs with the V grooved tip. After a quick test run (it was freezing) the problem is all sorted.

Thames Valley Hoods

You may have seen in this Blog that I mention the Thames Valley Area Hoods a lot in my posts, this is my local area of RHOCaR (Robin Hood Owners Club and Register) run by our Area secretary John Peech.
http://www.freewebs.com/oxonrobinhoods/- TVH website.
http://community.rhocar.org/- RHOCaR website

Our area meetings (always the second Wednesday of the month at 8pm). are held at : The Lambert Arms, London Road, Aston Rowant, Oxon, OX49 5SQ www.lambertarms.co.uk

They are informal meetings with discussions on all things Robin Hood kit cars.
We also run events throughout the year.