It's Registered!

Yup, got the plates and everything. Now I can drive it legally on the road, which is nice. More importantly, I can start to get into the various events around the place, from nice country drives with the local clubbies group, through to AMS events.

Registration was actually a lot less trouble than I thought, although it didn't start well. The inspectors opening comments were 'I hate these cars. You can't steer 'em, can't use the pedals, and they're unsafe. If it was up to me, I wouldn't register these things'. But once he'd had his rant and seen that the lights all worked, indicators flashed, and took it for a 30 second drive, he signed the paperwork. And that's actually all that I really needed from him - the opinions were an extra I could do without ;-)

A word to the wise though - do a final check before you take it to be registered. Sods law says something will have come loose. In my case, it was a wire to the front left indicator - a five minute job saved me from failing the rego ;-)

I've also resolved the water temp gauge problem - I just needed to earth the engine to the chassis, which removed a lot of the electrical noise from the system.

Now it's back at Franks - I know, you were all thinking that once it was registered, that would be it. But there's still work to do before the rally:

1. Fit the cross-member. If you remember, the bellhousing is below the line of the removal able cross-member, so Frank will fabricate a new one
2. Re-do the water lines
3. Play with suspension settings

But at least now I don't have to worry about the Police troubling me for my rego papers...