Well in answer to your question Richard, The build is coming along, albeit a bit slowly over the past week and after this week end just gone it will now be even slower.

I now have my battery mounted on a battery tray in the engine bay, in front of the passenger foot well (pictures will follow soon, I hope). So now I can re-install all the wiring and other bits I removed to get the tray in. I have some stainless steel tubing ( Thank you Kev [madteg] ) and so I need to order some silicone hoses to connect the cooling system together.

This weekend just gone I was going to make the Christmas cake, move the telly to its new place AND spend some time in the garage refitting in preparation for sorting the hoses out, which I had hoped to order this week end or week.

However GOD had other plans for me. I got in from work (on Saturday Night ) about 03:30 on sunday morning. Rolled into bed about 04:00. As seems normal these days I woke up about 08:30, went down stairs and made breakfast (in bed) for my good lady and me. Whilst making the brecky I quickly put my last nights work on the computer and then up stairs with food to SWMBO.

We were sitting there eating and watching telly when the lights & telly cut out then came on again. However when we came down stairs later we/I found that my 'puter had decided to go and join other unhappy souls in Val Halla.
One mad panic ensued and to cut a long boring story short £550 of my build/Tax money later (and 2 Days) I had a new computer up and running. I'm just left with about another 2 days work re-installing and un-backing up ALL the generally useful rubbish I had on my old one.
Thank god I had a useful back up system. I think the only thing(s) that I have lost are unsaved emails and the outlook express address book. I am not sure at this time wether it was the psu OR the mother board the died, when I have more time then I shall find out.

I am still holding a (seems like forlorn at the moment) hope that I shall be on the road for Stoneleigh. I just have to grit my teeth and dig in hard now.


Enjoy.

Keep going, Clive - Always sweeter if it's been a battle!!!!

Aye, Clive - keep it rolling....it's getting ever closer.

Know what you mean about losing the PC though...oddly enough when I don't have access one of the places I miss the most is this forum!

I've just built a new one and treated myself to a monitor as well. I keep an old PIII 500 upstairs with Ubuntu on it for disasters and it never lets me down. I just start it up and update it occasionally with bits from repair jobs or donations from friends computers. It gets you back online if you're stuck.