2018 Projects/ideas

As soon as the weather improves a bit, and sub 10ºC temperatures desist in my garage I can hopefully make some progress on the 2018 to do list.

Must do - before driving/short term

1. Drivers seat loose from Vienna run
Its not going anywhere, but theres a definite clunk/movement if its waggled left/right - something is amiss somewhere.

2. Complete the headlamp wiring mod

To support LED bulbs or revert to standard H4s, and if the former get the beams checked for MOT suitability.

Should do - medium term improvements

3. Battery fuse box

Add an on-battery fusebox and eliminate unfused cabling from the loom: lines to the starter, alternator and permanently live fusebox internal busbars. Remove the via-fusebox binding post routing of the main high current starter cable and move my FIA cutout to switch the battery ground line.

4. Tale-tale indicator on the volt meter

To flag under-voltage. Simple little gadget which uses a red-amber-green led to flag the state of the battery and alternator charging.

5. Replace the timing belt bottom cover
The original never went back on after replacing the timing belt. I found a cheap £6 one, so may have another go at getting the harmonic pulley off and re-installing the cover.

Could do - rainy day projects

6. Loom wiring diagram

A project to fully document my loom. No issues with it as such, its just the one part of the car with no comprehensive detailed documentation and apparently none available from the original vendor (Kitspares).

7. Stand alone direction finder

An electronic compass type instrument based on Arduino, accelerometer and GPS module. Similar in principle to an aircraft (ADF) Automatic Direction Finder but using GPS coords rather than radio signals.


....and some random stuff like a 'Seven' grille and 'GT' boot badge....

Road Trips

Plenty of grey dots/ideas on the map, however lots going on away from the car so it might be a quiet local/UK year depending how things pan out.

Lego GBS Zero - build complete

The transformation is complete and now in real life.

Stock 21307 Caterham Lego model modified to be closer to GN13 both physical features and colour scheme.

Some license with the exhaust exiting the bonnet and 4x pipes to the collector and silencer, while not strictly accurate it looks the part.

I'm leaving the brick colours stock, while I could spray the grey to be silver - as soon as I do that its not really Lego anymore.

Happy with that, I think it captures the spirit of a Zero.

Bricklink

Design software courtesy Bricklink.com, parts via the Bricklink community.
Unable to make this a download due to a copyright notification: 21307 to Richards GBS Zero - Structural changes.

Mini Richards GBS Zero - more Lego

Lego is addictive!

Modified a small Seven type MOC to 'Zero it' a little while waiting for parts on the main model. There is no room at this size for wheel arches so left in the red bonnet stripe to give the model a more cohesive colour scheme.

Background is Valentia Island from the Ireland trip in 2017

The design for this model, including driver, crash helmet and ear muffs is available on BrickLink called 'Mini Richards GBS Zero'. The only downside I've found with BrickLink, a swap website for lego parts, is the postage costs tend towards £10 per vendor typically and can push overall model costs prices if you have to source from 3-4 vendors.

Really must get back to playing with the real thing...

Update - Unfortunately not downloading due to a copyright notification v3 has some changes to the exhaust and nose area in collaboration with D Austin on Bricklink - thank you for the ideas!