Workshop notes
The journal
Notes from the floor — what we’re building, what broke, and what we learned putting it right. Written by the people holding the spanners.
Engine Shop
Why we blueprint every engine before we open it
Compression numbers only tell you what a motor is doing today. The blueprint tells you what it was built to do — and what it can safely become.
Body Shop
Dry ice, bare metal: stripping 014’s shell
Chemical dips hide sins. Dry-ice blasting tells the truth about a 37-year-old shell — panel by panel.
Driveline
The case for the dogleg gearbox
First gear down-and-left made sense on a race grid in 1986. On the right road, it still does.
Road Testing
Testing day at the gravel stage
Every Safari build leaves with 500 shakedown kilometres. What the first 200 taught us about 012’s damping.