2007:

13th September: Finally added a write up of the Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb School to the trackdays section.

23rd March: I've finally got round to adding a few more pics of other Mojos to the Galleries section.

20th March: I've added an update to the throttle bodies conversion pages.  I now have a much nicer manifold solution!

My place at Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb School has been confirmed, I'll be there on 26th June.

16th February: I'm switching broadband provider over the next few days, so apologies if the site goes down for a while.  Just point to www.mymojo.co.uk and you should be back in business.  I will attempt to redirect hits to the old host to the new location...  I'm switching to Madasafish broadband, who have a good reputation for service, plus give you a proper router rather than a usb modem, and do a good line rental & calls package too.

Subject to getting a place, I'm going to the Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb School on 26th June!  This is run by the Midland Automobile Club who also run the Curborough Sprint School that I attended last year.  Should be fun!

16th January: Added a pdf file to the review of the sprint meeting at Curborough.  This includes some interesting extracts from the latest issue of MAC News...

2006:

22nd October: Added some more photos to the review of the sprint meeting at Curborough- thanks to Rich for providing the pics (well, the in-focus ones anyway...)

10th October: Had a fantastic day at Curborough on Sunday for my first competitive sprint event, driving a Caterham (see the Sprint School review for the full explanation!).  I've put up a new article about the day.

12th September: Added a few more piccies and some movies to the Curborough Sprint School review.

I've applied for my Non-race National B licence from the MSA :-)

I'm going to be at Donington on Sunday 17th September for the kit car show and 750MC racing.  I am organising a run from Warwick leaving at 9.30.  If anyone would like to tag along, drop me an email.  I should be lurking on the Sylva stand when not watching the racing, come and say hello!

8th September: Had a fantastic day at Curborough Sprint School on Tuesday, culminating in a surprising and exciting outcome...  Read more about it HERE!

16th August: MOT passed first time, great!

Added a couple more pics to the brake pedal switch page.

15th August: Fixed the messed up front page.

I've now fitted the brake pedal switch, more info here.

MOT tomorrow!

4th August: Added a final entry to the throttle bodies conversion page.

I am off to Curborough Sprint School on 5th September- should be good fun!

Passed the 10000 mile mark a couple of weeks ago!  Piling the miles on...

7th June: Added some pictures of Tom Clarke's Mojo SE to the galleries.

27th April: Stoneleigh kit car show this coming weekend, I will be there both days given that I practically live on the doorstep.  I should be lurking on the Sylva/Stingray stand, which will this year be outside with the Sylva Sportscar Register, so please come and say 'hello' if you are there.

I've added some more content to the throttle bodies page, describing the latest mapping exploits.  Just a low throttle glitch is causing frustration now, but otherwise things are running well.

I was at Curborough sprint track again last week, unfortunately it was a fairly wet day so no pictures of the Mojo in action.  However, it was a good opportunity to drive the Mojo to (and beyond) the limit of adhesion... I've written a little article, which appears in the trackdays section.

11th April:  Throttle bodies are go!

3rd April: I passed the 8000 mile mark on the way to work today; the sun was out, the shades were on, what a great way to start the morning!

29th March: The local SSR meet will revert to 1st Thursday of the month from April onwards, so the next meet is on 6th April at 7.30pm.  More details on the SSR website, under 'Local Meetings', or drop me an email if you have any further questions...

Just in case you thought it had gone very quiet on the throttle bodies conversion, I am now simply waiting for a clear weekend to do the final swap.  It's currently looking promising for the weekend of 8th & 9th April...

26th March: Added some pictures from Total Kit Car Live to the galleries.  It was a good day, with fine weather until mid afternoon.  The journey home was a bit damp, and I was tired, but well worth the trip.

22nd March: A slight re-arrange of the menus, the content is the same as before.

Added some more pictures of Bob & Andy Abel's Mojo, now rapidly approaching readiness for SVA!

21st March: Been doing a bit of sprucing in preparation for TKC Live on Saturday.  I've finally got round to painting the inside of the windscreen surround black, which now looks much better.  I will eventually do the inside of the engine bay and nosecone for completeness.  I've also touched up a few blemishes in the external paintwork, and done some other general tidying.  The weather forecast for Saturday seems to vary by the hour, so fingers crossed for NO RAIN!

I've also now added a 'guestbook' for people to leave their comments & suggestions.  It's great to hear from people around the world who have stumbled across the website, I do welcome emails, but if you don't want to email then please make use of the guestbook!

The trip to the Phil Price Rally School was great fun, I've put a few pics in the misc gallery.

13th March: Great racing at Mallory, and Samir did a good job for his first race- see his report here.

I am now definitely going to Total Kit Car Live! on 25th March, and will be helping out with Sylva.  My mojo will be there alongside the RiotSE factory demo car.  Please come and  introduce yourself if you are there too!

Before that, I am off to the Phil Price Rally School for the day on 19th March!  I am really looking forward to it, should be good fun.

Fixed a few problems on the site, mainly with the links on the contents page pointing to my hard drive rather than the website.  Ooops.  Please do email me if you find dead links or similar, there really shouldn't be ANY!

9th March: I'm off to Mallory Park on Sunday for the first meeting of the 750 Motor Club this year.  I know a few guys who are racing in the Locost championship, so will go along to offer some moral support.  Weather forecast is currently for rain and snow, so I think I'll leave the Mojo in the garage...

I popped round to Samir's this evening, Mallory will be his first Locost race.  He bought a car which ran in the championship last year, but a bit of work is required before Sunday- new harness, plumbed in extinguisher, getting the thing started...  The harness was fairly straight-forward, the extinguisher is a job for daylight hours tomorrow afternoon, and getting it started proved entertaining!  The starter button produced nothing more than a dimming of lights- no noise from the starter at all.  We tried various things with no success, until Samir suggested giving the starter a knock.  On the next press of the starter button, the starter motor did finally emit a noise.  A couple of 'thwacks' later and we had it running.  'Brute force technique' saved the day...

28th February: Another TB update, and some more on springs and dampers too...  Sorry, this is getting a bit repetitive!

19th February:  More work on the TB conversion... and a small update to the Springs & Dampers page in the Mods section.

16th February: Another update to the throttle bodies upgrade page, which I've now split into 2 sections (background info & the conversion diary) as it was getting rather huge, so for the latest news you need to click 'conversion' on the menu...

Won an ebay auction this evening for a pair of 275lb/in springs to continue my suspension tweaking exploits.  I am going to try the previous 325s on the front, and stick the 275s on the rear.  Bargain for £8.50!

Talking of springs, I've also updated the corner weights & ride frequencies Excel sheet to include some calcs for roll stiffness, hopefully it might be useful to someone although it requires you to make reasonable assumptions for roll centre heights and suchlike...  I also improved the ride frequency calcs, as I had previously neglected the influence of the tyre vertical stiffness.

It's a shame to see the Stafford Show has been cancelled, although it's fairly low key it gets the year of shows off to an early start.  Let's hope it returns in the future.  I may now show my face at Total Kit Car Live! at Oulton Park on 25th March...

I'm also hoping to go to some of the 750 Motor Club events this year as I know a few people racing in the Locost and RGB championships.  The first event is Mallory on 12th March.

30th January: I have at last got myself a broadband ADSL connection sorted, so the site is moving to a new host with pipex.  Hopefully you won't be aware of this, but let me know if you spot any problems over the next few weeks.

Updated the throttle bodies page once again with progress so far in 2006...

2005:

23rd December: Dan McEwan is sadly selling his Mojo kit, here are the details:

Quote from Dan:

20th December: Updated the throttle bodies page, and made some major changes to the menus, and added some new stuff here and there.  I've re-organised some areas, so for example I've put the previous diary & tips sections together in a build section.  Hopefully this makes it easier to get around the site.  Apologies if it confuses anyone!  Please email me if you find any dead links or other problems...

4th December: Started a new page detailing my conversion to bike throttle bodies.

CLICK HERE!

10th November: Today I won some GSXR750 throttle bodies on ebay.  They are coming from Canada for £85 delivered, and are the version which have a fuel rail which can be modified to a different spacing.  So, the fuel injection upgrade is now officially under way!  Hence, I've started a new section which will detail the whole upgrade.  For the time being it will just document some of my thoughts on the different options, and why I've decided to go the planned route.

8th November: I've added some pics from the event at Gaydon to the other events section of the gallery.

Also added some pics of Matt Beardshaw's K-series Mojo mid-build  to the other Mojos gallery.

I'm currently pondering an upgrade to fuel injection.  There is nothing wrong with the engine as it is, but I think an injection system would be better for my routine of daily use through the winter, and give better fuel economy & performance too.  I'm looking at using motorbike throttle bodies, combined with a chopped up version of the manifold that I originally got with the Zetec engine.  Some angle grinding took place at the weekend, and I'm currently trying to source the throttle bodies.  I'll also have to upgrade the emerald ECU to do injection.  I'm not in a particular hurry, so will just get hold of bits as and when I can.  Eventually, I should have some carbs, a weber manifold, facet fuel pump & pressure regulator for sale...

17th October: Great weekend.  Firstly, on Friday afternoon a group of 'interesting' cars, including the Mojo, were allowed out on the test track at Gaydon.  I clocked 127mph down the long straight, which was plenty fast enough.  However, there were plenty of much faster cars, including TVRs, an Ultima, and a Nissan Skyline rumoured to have cracked 175mph!  I hope to have some pictures in the near future...

Then off to the Donington show on Sunday, dropping in at Sylva on the way to check out the new unit and have a chat with some owners, prospective owners & current builders.  This was a really worthwhile morning, and I enjoyed meeting everyone- great to meet another couple of Mojo builders in Martin and Keith too.

Then off to the show- not as good as last year in terms of the number of exhibitors, but plenty of cars in the display area, and some track action to keep you occupied.  Altogether a good day out!  I've added just a few pics of the SSR area here.

15th October: Updated the section on my suspension tweaks- the car is much improved.  Also added a new section detailing the fitment of a high level brake light.  Donington Show tomorrow, I'm going up to the new Sylva unit at Ripley beforehand for breakfast.  

23rd September: Added a new section detailing my plans for tinkering with the rear suspension- click here.  I've also fixed the problem with only some of pictures opening in a new window, and tried to sort out a load of bad links relating to some stupid mistakes with UPPER and lower case .jpg extensions...  Sorry about that ;-)

1st September:  Added some pictures of me driving the Mojo at Curborough.  I've also just made up some stone deflectors for the rear wings- details in the Post SVA Mods section.  Finally, as the Post SVA section was getting a bit large, I've created a separate trackdays section with a new link on the left.

25th August: Added a link to Martin Boakes' R1ot build site. See the links page.

24th August: Done some further tinkering with the website...  Added a new R1ot build site to the links page.  The author, Richard Burgess, hasn't taken delivery yet, so the build pages are understandably thin on the ground.  However, there is a tech forum, which hopefully will become useful.

19th August: MOT retest went fine.  Paid for a years road tax using the new online system.  Having renewed my insurance with MSM last week, I am now all set for another year of Mojo driving!

18th August: The Mojo went in for its MOT today.  It failed on 2 points: failed rear number plate bulb, and the nearside front lower balljoint dropped out of the wishbone when jacked up off the ground!  The latter fault was fairly alarming, although the balljoint re-seated fine once the weight of the car was back on the wheels.  I do recall Jeremy Phillips mentioning this happening to him in the past.  His advice was to peen over the edges of the ball joint housing (part of the lower wishbone) to prevent it happening in future.  I did this, after first jacking under the ball joint to make sure it was seated correctly.

11th August: Great day at Curborough yesterday!  I've added a write-up to the trackdays section...

6th August: Used some L-section black plastic that I found in B&Q to neaten up the top edge of the vinyl trim on the inside of the sidescreens.  I've updated the sidescreens section accordingly....

5th August: Found out I had a last minute place for a day at Curborough Sprint Track on 10th August!

4th August: Another successful West Midlands/Warwickshire meet took place this evening, with some more new faces appearing.  I felt a little out-numbered though, the number of Fury owners or builders is increasing by the week.  At least my mojo remains unique in the area, for the time being...

1st August: Back from two weeks in the South of France.  Mojo has sat patiently in the garage for my return...

14th July: I've given the site a facelift, hopefully for the better...

12th July: Terry Francis has put his interesting X-flow powered Mojo up for sale.  There is a picture in the Mojo gallery- please contact me if you want Terry's contact information.

11th July: An interesting weekend!  On Thursday, the Mojo suddenly started running really badly, misfiring through the rev range.  A quick peak under the engine cover found loads of fuel dripping out of the right hand carb.  Something seemed to be stopping the fuel supply to the float chamber from being cut off.  I stripped the carb down, and found that one of the floats was half full of petrol!  Thankfully, I have managed to get hold of a replacement from a colleagues 'spare parts bin'- thanks to Steve!  Mojo has now resumed normal service...

7th July: The July West Midlands/Warwickshire meet took place today, another good evening, and with better weather this time we took the liberty of a pint outside by the canal in the evening sunshine.  See you again in August!

24th June: Went down to Goodwood Festival of Speed today, in the Mojo of course!  It turned out to be a very long day, left home at about 8am, got home just before midnight!  Still good fun though, although it took me about 4 days to get over the tiredness!  I travelled down with Jon in his Caterham, which made the journey more fun.  I've put some pictures in the updated gallery here.

3rd June: Well, I think the new local meet can be classified as a success, with 4 kit cars and 8 people attending, despite the weather being fairly miserable.  Thanks to those that supported the event, hope to see you again in future.

2nd June: I have organised a new SSR local meet, details below:

First Thursday of the month, 7.30pm

Fleur de Lys Inn, Lapworth St, Lowsonford, nr Henley-In-Arden, West Midlands, B95 5HJ

Click here for a link to multimap