Day 6 saw the return of the Dad. And Mum also had her first sighting of the yellow beast. Her first comment being that ‘it is a better yellow than it looks in the videos’… thanks Mum!

So, what did we achieve this evening? Well, I re-fitted the steering column as I wasn’t happy at the end of yesterday. Now that I’ve done it once, I was able to align everything much better and was happy with the result.

After some tea, we managed to bleed the clutch. I had read that this was much better to do now than during final checks due to the lack of access once all the wiring/cooling is in place. It was hard enough to get the tube on and get going with the space available even without the wiring and hoses in the way.

During this process, I got to sit in my car for the first time! No seat of course, but it was fun none the less :)

Finally, we went on to attach the throttle cable. This came with some interesting problems. The pedal end of the cable has a metal blob with a prong coming out the end. This prong is supposed to fit through a hole in the top of the pedal, with the blob sitting in the hollow tube and the cable coming out the other side of the pedal in a cut away groove. Problem is, there isn’t enough room to get the prong in the hole and then get the blob seated correctly. A little umming and ahhing and we made the decision to make the prong shorter by snipping it in half. That did the job and with a little persuasion, the cable seated correctly.

The manual then said to crimp the top of the pedal to catch the cable in place. Which we did… only to find that the cable is way too long. The manual says that you need to adjust the pedal by inserting a philips screw driver in the end and using a block of wood to brace the pedal against whilst you ben the top of the pedal back towards the rear of the car. So, we had to un-crimp the top of the pedal and pull out the cable once more.

A fair amount of bending later and the cable was at the correct tension. Now the pedal stops just had to be move to allow the full throttle movement – but no more.

And that was pretty much it for the evening. We took a look at the boot cover and felt suitable scared of how to approach this.

Next jobs will be the cover, the trim, harnesses, seats and roll-cage.