Did some housekeeping on the XR4 today in preparation for log booking the car.
Cage finished and will go for registration in coming days. Then after some discussions with the CAMS technical people, who were really very good, I will arrange to take the car to the next event either sprint or gymkhana where there will be a CAMS scrutineer to get the log book application finalised.
I didn't weld the cage, just worked with the regs to get the design right.
XR4s suffer from a gear linkage issue which we thought was the usual worn out bush at the lever. Car has only done 110,000km but is now 11 years old and not cared for since about 1957. Changed the bush and it would still jam in gear. Dr Google told me that the linkage arm bushes get sticky and the pivot shaft rusts so all that came out and was cleaned up and redone with some moly grease. While I was there all the plastic guards, shrouds, liners etc fell off.
And the worst job of all. The power steering pump was leaking and horribly noisy so I swapped it with one that we knew was good. Absolute prick of a job. Usually you take out the inlet manifold but this has the Cosworth thing which has longer runners and getting to some of the bolts is nigh on impossible.
Removal was ok but getting the genie back in the bottle is always the hard part.
Back and no leaks!!!!! Yet. Managed to get the serpentine belt on and off on my own. Ripping out the headlight and taking the wheel off was the way to go.
Finally made that modification that will make this the fastest XR4 on track...
Getting closer. Still have to roll the rear guards a little as the tyres scrub after fitting spacers to square up the tracks and also need to put a bend in the exhaust to clear the rear antiroll bar.
We were going to fit a Mazda 3MPS 6 speed box in this but given we are going to go a bit crazy on the spare shell this might do until that is on the road.