Effective Repairs.

Midnight on Thursday and repairs to the engine in the Subaru have been in effect for about 10 hours. After some delays in acquiring the correct head gasket (Thanks Peter and Isaac) and with plenty of time spent cleaning all the components the engine was re-assembled and returned to it's home in the engine bay. Fluids filled, exhaust and intake fitted now time to start her up.
With the engine now running and some final adjustments made a drive was in order to see if the repairs had been effective. The West Tamar Highway from Legana to Exeter was the place of choice and after a few run's up and down the rolling hills it was back to the workshop . The Subaru had performed faultlessly on the test drive, now time for the crew to get some sleep. Rob, Adam and Kai disappeared in the Transit to there places of rest and Scott and the Subaru returned to the Catt residence.
As per the Targa rules the Subaru recquired re-scutineering before continuing in the event. This meant an early start at the Silverdome so that the scrutiny could be performed. The start time for the day was 9:10am which placed us in relatively the same position on the road as the previous day and 7 stages awaited the attack. The Subaru felt very strong and was showing no signs of the dreaded over-heating. Todays times on the road were back to the best times of the previous day, trading seconds with the comparable vehicles in the event and even showing signs of improvement. All good and the team is now in rest mode before the big attack on more familiar roads to the team tomorrow towards Strahan.