Today we had to take Molly Porsche to scrutineering to make sure she complied with the Historic Endurance Rally Associations regulations and sort of an MOT for driving in Iceland. Molly passed on all but one thing which was the way her front spot light and fog lights are wired up.
Apparently they are incorrect,
This caused a certain amount us of anxiety, and comments like ' what the bloody hell do we do now '
The mood lifted when it was decided that as we were not going to be doing any night driving the wiring issue would be overlooked this time and we did not have to go and stand on the naughty steep.
Having passed the scrutineering we are allowed to officially sign on and get our stickers rally plaques and even hats, gloves and a very nice HERO scarf. Trust me you need them.
We then took Molly out to check our distance measuring apparatus.
We use an old fashioned ( bit like us ) system called a Halda Twin. This is a great Trip system for measuring your exact distance.
The idea is that the Halda should exactly match the measured kilometre marked out by the Historic endurance Rally Organisation.s
This was not to be the case.
There kilometre measured 1000 metres and our Halda read 959 meters. This means we are 41 meters out for every kilometre we travel.
This doesn't sound much but when all the instructions for turn right, left, faster, slower are measured to the exact meter then our discrepancy is a bit of a pain.
All the other competitors are running modern electronic trip system which can be simply altered to measure exactly the same distance as the rally kilometre.
The Halda can not be easily re calibrated, it has to have all its internal measuring cogs changed. We don't have these cogs or the expertise.
So there will be a fair bit of guess work going on for the next 6 days. All part of the fun and games of
Historic rallying. Well that's what I keep telling Julie.
The rally starts tomorrow at 8.45.
hopefully it won't finish until next Saturday.
Come on Molly 😀
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