Went to play in the desert

Didn't do much on the car yesterday as I "had" to play golf in the morning and then the Canadiens were playing game 2 of their series with Tampa Bay at 3:00. What a waste of time that was.  I spent the time in-between Tampa goals printing out labels for the wiring loom on my new Dymo printer. Once I was really sure there was no chance of a comeback, I labelled everything on the loom from the wiring diagram provided and then did the final fitting of the wiring, tightening up the cable ties I had installed previously - all looks very neat. I just need to figure out some of the wiring in the rear, as the manual was not that clear. What a surprise.

No pictures I am afraid. Was too depressed about the Canadiens - now 0-2 down, after losing both home games.

Today was not a big car day as Ron and I decided to go for lunch in Cave Creek. Except we didn't do it the normal person way, we went through the desert in his Polaris Razor - what a blast to drive - it is unbelievable how it handles really rough terrain and how much fun it is to drive - very similar to driving a car on the track - strange to say but true. Every so often Ron would say "oh oh we're going to die". I think that's just his was of saying we are about to have more fun!

The views were amazing also, we went down to the Rio Verde river - not something you would expect in the middle of a desert.


Everything is very green at the moment - the product of a fair amount of rain recently - we had a deluge on Sunday night, which meant we had some fun trying to avoid the big puddles.

It seemed strange driving the Razor in the middle of Cave Creek and parking it outside the restaurant, but nobody seemed to care - must be a regular occurrence around these parts.

A big thanks to Ron for taking me out.

Here is a link to get a taste of what it is like at full throttle in that thing. This is shortly before an emergency swerve to miss a big puddle left us nearly parked in a large cactus:

RZR in the desert



Anyway back to the car - as I don't have many mechanical parts that I can do, because I am waiting for components from the factory, I decided to fit the transmission tunnel panels, so I could make it look more like a car. Lots of drilling and the chance to play with my air riveter - what a lot of fun that was!

Using Cleco fasteners really helps hold the panel in place while you are drilling the holes - like a lot of extra hands - they are spring loaded and grip to pieces of metal together through a drilled hole. Highly recommended for anybody building a Westfield, as there are a lot of panels to drill and rivet: