Pump Conclusion and Weekend Cruising

I found the seat riser I'd made a little too high for my liking, I felt like I was sitting on the car instead of in it, I didn't feel safe at all, I liked the angle for my leg position, but hated it for the excess pain it gave me in my back, so Friday's job entailed altering the angle and dropping the height, it didn't take long at all, but, it has made a huge difference to the over all comfort.
After my last post I went out for the weekend cruising down to some buddies' workshop to hang out for the day and then off to a show the next. When I was running down to the shop the T did puke  a bit of coolant again, I can only assume it was levelling/burping as this did not happen the next day nor has it occurred since.

Frinton Flyer / Gonzo Customs' awesome pedal and electric cycles

I picked up Rob of Gonzo Kustom fame, and cruised on over to a guy who was going to repair the intake he said he'd be able to tig weld it for me. I was going to attempt the repair myself, but decided against it in case I made a mess of the job and it ended up being more expensive to have someone undo my work and repair it properly. Then we blasted some back roads down to hang with Marc and Rob at the Frinton Flyer shop, much fun, laughs and innuendos were had by all. These guys build some insane pedal and electric bikes, the likes of which most of you would never have seen before, they are truly stunning, should you be in the market for anything custom and bicycle these dudes are some of the best in the business. I also had the pleasure of meeting Danny of Maddanny Pinstriping, who was laying down some stripes on one of their new builds, he's an all round great guy and one hell of an artist, I'm certain I'll be enlisting his services once I have an idea of what's going on with the paint on the T. At end of play, we headed back to collect the manifold, which was repaired astonishingly well at an even better price, dropped Rob back of at his place stole a coffee, bought one of his kick ass trucker hats and blasted home.

Gonzo Bars Trucker Hats

My freshly repaired intake, a huge result with a tiny investment.

Sunday was another pretty early start, I had invited an old friend to come out to a car show with me, Spring Break 2015, so headed off to pick her up and cruise to the show. Sadly the drive was laborious, aside from the company of course, there were road works and average speed cameras almost the whole way there, luckily the weather was stunning with the sun beaming all day long. We arrived at the site, after a little searching figured out where we were supposed to be going.
I thought that the entry price was fairly reasonable at £7 per head, paid up and we were ushered in to the show arena, I'm not sure why, I can only guess it was in order to not offend me or something, the T is far from a show car, and even further from show quality, but I did as I was asked. We parked up and went for a hobble around checking out the cars, then headed for the stalls, of which there were about 6, I can't say I was overly impressed seeing as the trade stands were free of charge, I needed to have a seat, so grabbed what turned out to be one of the worst cups of coffee I have ever drunk in my life, had another look around and decided that there was little reason to stay, and headed home.
Although it is very early in the season, the show was pretty non event, sure by the time it came to leaving there were quite a lot of cars to see, but that was about it, next to no stalls, dreadful coffee and time to leave, it's pretty local so I'll probably go again, but I'll be hoping that it grows a fair amount next year.
But hell; the sun was shining, had some great company, saw some cool cars and got to go munch some miles in the T, I've got a new comfy seat base, no more worries of over heating, even got the obligatory hot rod sun burn, its not all bad... Now, where's that aloe vera gel?

My T at Spring Break 2015 courtesy of the lovely Heather