She survived! :dance:
2200 mile round trip across 7 countries in a week, including 5 laps of the nordschleife, and she barely missed a beat. Was pretty pleased with the way she handled it all, the only real issue on track was a scraping lower boost pipe on some of the bigger dips, i'll be sorting that fairly sharpish. Ideally she needs some higher rate springs if i was to do it again, but the current ones are ideal for daily driving so they'll be staying for now. I haven't worked out the mpg for the trip, but it was definitely good considering she was fully loaded and being thrashed round back roads and up and down mountain passes all day long.
The only issue on tour was a short behind the dash causing me to temporarily lose all my interior electrics. A replaced fuse reduced that to a permanently lit battery light, no centre console clock back-lighting and no power to the front windows, everything else is working as it should. A bit of time spent tracing the fault has just confirmed it's buried among the wiring that goes behind the carpet and sound-deadening in the front, so that will have to wait. Why couldn't i just have a knackered door loom like everybody else, that would have been nice and easy.
As we'd ended up stripping out the front door cards and dash for access and it seemed churlish to replace it all without changing anything, as a result the cut down dash is now fitted and i'm currently taking a hacksaw and hot screwdriver to the door cards lol.
2200 mile round trip across 7 countries in a week, including 5 laps of the nordschleife, and she barely missed a beat. Was pretty pleased with the way she handled it all, the only real issue on track was a scraping lower boost pipe on some of the bigger dips, i'll be sorting that fairly sharpish. Ideally she needs some higher rate springs if i was to do it again, but the current ones are ideal for daily driving so they'll be staying for now. I haven't worked out the mpg for the trip, but it was definitely good considering she was fully loaded and being thrashed round back roads and up and down mountain passes all day long.
The only issue on tour was a short behind the dash causing me to temporarily lose all my interior electrics. A replaced fuse reduced that to a permanently lit battery light, no centre console clock back-lighting and no power to the front windows, everything else is working as it should. A bit of time spent tracing the fault has just confirmed it's buried among the wiring that goes behind the carpet and sound-deadening in the front, so that will have to wait. Why couldn't i just have a knackered door loom like everybody else, that would have been nice and easy.
As we'd ended up stripping out the front door cards and dash for access and it seemed churlish to replace it all without changing anything, as a result the cut down dash is now fitted and i'm currently taking a hacksaw and hot screwdriver to the door cards lol.