Pete, have you noticed that there is 6600 views of your thread?
You are an Internet star!!!!
I'd like to think that was the case Graeme but I reckon that the "dirt tracker" in the title gets rounded up by search engines. Either that, or my family are being kind to me and hitting it regularly...
Got the second header pipe made last night so I should be able to finish the pipes over a few nights next week.
Once they're done just need to get the right footrest bracket and the rear brake pedal made up. It's a bit busy in that area so I'll probably go with a cable rear brake. Have to find a front mounting point for the rear brake torque arm as well, but once that's all done it can be pulled down to start all the painting, powdercoating, zinc plating and polishing.
Polished up the oil pump cover which came up pretty nice so I'll probably go with polished covers, soda blasted crankcases and black heads and cylinders with the fin edges polished. I'd like the raw look on the heads and cylinders but they are quite corroded and I don't like using glass bead on any engine components.
About five weeks until Broadford so should be OK, hopefully.