V8 404 NEWS

14/08/07

Kirsten has now completed two meeting in the car kindly loaned to us by the Swinton Car Project. The car was delivered to the project on Sat 4/8/07 at Birmingham wheels with the aim of allowing Kirsten some practice laps and for us to bring back up North so we could make whatever minor mods were needed to get the car set for Kirsten to race. The minor mods required were a little more than we envisaged!!!!

Initially the car was delivered with a split OSF brake hose which was rectified at the track along with some other minor issues such as loose odds and ends etc. More serious was the engine which didn’t sound too great from the start but after a few laps lost oil pressure ending the practice day.

Dave Wood of the Swinton Car project asked NFR to take a good look at the car the week after and that’s when the fun really began. A crushed brake pipe was found along the front of the chassis, the floor was cut out and re-fabricated to allow the seat to be re-positioned, the seat itself was condemned and binned by NFR as were the belts and the engine was removed and split for checking. By this time the car was more or less back to a rolling chassis but Neil and Geoff worked like Trojans throughout the early week to get the car done. The engine needs, more or less, a rebuild including a crank grind so a donor engine was quickly fitted along with all the other work so Kirsten could honour her debut booking at Skegness.