For the first time since it was an MX-5 over a year ago now, the car is resting on the ground. Without collapsing. Without the wheels pinging off in a comedy clown-car impression (although I suspect that will have much more impact when I'm wanging around a corner in it).
First was a bit of tyre-inflation using a 12v compressor (I knew that cigarette lighter socket I installed would be useful for something) to get the tyres to the correct and equal pressure, which amused me as the car was inflating its own tyres. Yes, time to up the medication, I know.
And then the car was carefully lowered onto the ground. I'm still not 100% sure about the size of the wheels - these are certainly as wide as they could possibly be without them protruding tackily. At least now I can get on and set up the ride-height and the wheel alignments.
That's not all that I have been doing though during the last month, despite real life interfering with the time I would otherwise have spent on the car. The rear brakes have been calibrated, the handbrake set, the exhaust is fitted, and I've spent a while modifying the MX5 steering column cowling to fit the Westfield dash.
Oh, and I've put on a bit more stripe.
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