Wow!   Colour me green!  What a great day. John

Lucky to have a mate who invited me to co drive for a Alpine private track day at Fay de Bretagne, which is an old car test track with a long 1km straight and lots of varying corners. My first time at the track, first time in a 110 and first car with paddle shifts. 🫣 First thing it was wet, very slippery with lots of understeer, but gradually warmed during the day to just damp.. Towards the end of the afternoon I managed to blag a ride in a Cup race car. Nothing short of mental, brutal last minute braking, pivoting on a pin and crazy handling, where it just squirmed it's way through corners.  Great driver, lightening fast reflexes, zero mechanical sympathy, I wish him all the best with his future when he leaves school. 

Standard spit suspension doesn't travel that far. It's 2" lower than the previous wheelbarrow, plenty of clearance. Problem with a side pipe ( I considered it for a long time ), your gonna need to notch the front body mount outrider with that or you would need to go over the chassis rails, which at a 2" pipe would take you lower than this. I couldn't see any other path.

Ah…. High torque starter….. which brand?    The best ones are proper OE. Nippon Denso ones which seem to be almost invincible. Some of the (very pricey) aftermarket ones typically sold as “upgrades” for Lucas inertia ones are rather less excellent and short- lived.    Vitesse has a repurposed Toyota ND unit plucked from a scrapyard in 2004 and adapted with a Canleys kit. It’s been excellent. Only a slight wobble in Italy on the 2017 when it temporarily forgot its purpose and needed some percussive maintenance to remind it. That turned out to the copper contacts in the solenoid being almost entirely worn away. These were easily remade from a bit of bus-bar but they are also easy to buy. Suggest checking these first. You might also want to check whether the main power wire goes direct or via the original solenoid on the bulkhead. The later giving additional opportunities for volt drop and failure.

I actually rather like the standard pattern stainless GT6 exhaust on a Spit. A Mk3 GT6 back box on the 1500 with no middle box sounds sporty enough, but no bleeding ears and looks purposeful. Probably ok on a GT6 too but I’ve yet to try the stainless version. My GT6 does also have the middle box. Vitesse has 3 boxes (tight fit!). The noise check man at CC approves of it. Not only is it well within the limit but it ”sounds lovely”.  Clearly a connoisseur - with excellent taste.  

Hi Roger, They would have been cheaper, however I already popped down to Halfords earlier and picked up a new 063. Not the complete bog standard Lead Acid (the 3 year warranty option) but rather the Calcium 4 year version. Difference of £3 between them, figured the extra ampage and CCA would not be amiss given the engine is "tuned" with a high torque starter. However after installation I found it still didn't work. A couple of judicious taps on the starter produced life, but still a bit sluggish to my mind. So maybe that was the root cause. Battery needed replacing anyway, so no loss in the long run. Next job, pull a starter out and see if it is "overhaulable" I guess.

Opportune posting chaps! My wheelbarrow is a tad noisy, and I have been thinking about possible solutions. Most likely I'll replace the two silencers with "better" versions, and then consider if I need something along the chassis rails as well. It would be nice to tame the drone at 70mph lol

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You must have stiff springs on the back for that not to ground though ?

The washers might be for use with wheel-nuts or bolts to adapt the domed ends to the flat plate.