It's been a little while since I posted. It's still very sad around here without Hobbes. Thank you all for the kind words.
The other day I was in the office and came downstairs at lunch to see a beautiful stock Velocity Red SE. Someone has taken very good care of this car and kept it in very original condition. Short of a few stone chip touch ups, and some odd plastic shields over the headlights, it was show-room condition.
I don't think this car has ever turned a wheel in angerI haven't had much opportunity to drive the car the way it's intended over the past year or so. I've done a couple of cruise/dates in it with my partner, fairly sedate and enjoyable in the cooler weather that's come to an end far too quickly. But hardly putting that EFR to work. Intentions to get to a track day or khana cross have fallen to the wayside.
I did take a moment to stuff the tunnels either side of the trunk with some foam to cut down on drone and noise, it works slightly but not a massive change. I bought the foam from Clarks years ago and finally took the 10 minutes to cut and stuff them in there. I could do a better job if I removed the panels from the parcel shelf and went in from the top, but that's more work than I'm willing to put in right now.
Yesterday I did finally take the car for a drive with the intention of putting some heat into the tyres, in the Gold Coast hinterlands. Managed to get a few turns at pace, but sadly there was too much traffic about and spent most of the time 10km under the speed limit.
Mt Tambourine look outI don't expect too much development on the car in the coming months/year. I'm pretty happy with the balance right now, and while there's a few things that could be improved, like a proper power tune, or some radiator ducting, maybe some new seat covers, I don't find anything lacking and would be happy to drive the car as is for the time being. I just need to get into it more often!
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