Search results

Haha, anytime. Definitely worth it for that picture. Thanks.

Thank you, much appreciated. I suspect it's abit more forgiving than the Caterham. 🙂

I last weighed it at 920kg with trimmed out metal panels. Since then it's had the composite doors, bonnet, boot, boot floor and also quite a weight saving with the brake discs and calipers. I need to weigh it again but it has to be getting close to 800kg Oh wow thank you. It's means a lot to...

Oh wow, that video is great. I'm never organised enough to setup a camera, thank you. Remember you being quite the peddler on track last year, fair doos. Yeah the clio is a 1.8t with a gripper. It's probably around 315bhp at 18psi. It's built to run more, but I dont think theres a need...

Thank you, and thanks for closing my door😀. It was good to speak to you, it’s always good to meet the person vs the username, and I normally get it wrong. Big thanks to the organisers, another top day.

I know I have chased a few issues in the past and they've turned out being the tyres. I have a noisy pair of Pilot sports on my daily at the moment, but this is due to being just about at the wear limit.

Tyres

I think you can get them in different materials/construction depending on there intended use. Mine are heavy compared to the second stlye. I'll weigh them (with tyres). I would expect 4+ kg heavier Like 2118, you can get mag ones which were light. The 2118 everyone runs around on now, are heavy.

The front is a 200/58 slick, which I think is more like a 215 road tyre ? Rear was 205/50 A052, which seem to come out chunky. Front is spaced 20mm rear spaced 13mm. I would estimate the first style is similar weight to to an oz F1 9kg ish. The second style in 8" are close to the evo corse Weight.

Picture of staggered setup, both styles

I have both styles. The top style flowformed? are heavy. The bottom style that pms sell are light. I have a pair of the top stlye in 7" width. And the bottom in 8". Track car, the pictures is with 8" all round, wheels spaced, with wide tyres so maybe not the look you want.

I did it after my F4r failed. Just finishing another for a friend. Let me know if I can help with any questions.

What width wheels do you use? 210/575/15 is wide, you'll need a 9" rim Most use a 180/58 on a 7" rim. This link might help you - https://www.avontyres.com/en-gb/tyres/radial-slick Here's a picture of my 200/58 on 8" rims.

I run AST on the front although with Laguna hubs and some other mods so I can't tell you the difference to caster on there own. I'm pretty confident you would have enough adjustment to go max caster and still exceed your desired camber. I really don't get why people fit these mounts and then...

Pure motorsport have the large diff bearing in stock, if anyone needs one.

I checked at the start of the week, they were showing out of stock. And listed a more expensive alternative. Checked again yesterday and two showing in stock, so I snapped them up. I'm sure more will come into stock.

Such a nice wheel, light too. I have a set for my wets/road tyres. I wish I'd also got a set of 8" for track. Like the one below with a bit of dish.

Yeah new spacers, I always keep a spare disc kitted up with bearing and studs in my track day kit now. I did consider the PMS upgrade, but with them being cheap (still thanks to the link) and easy to change I just keep an eye on them. I have bought a SKF bearing to replace my recently failed...

Thanks for the link. I checked last week and they were around £100 each. Checked and ordered today for £49. 4th set in 6years, the bearing failed every time.

I have spare 172 pads in my kit if you need some. Arriving tonight

Pictures are up.

I'll keep an eye out for you. It looked like they were both having alot of fun before it happened. Unfortunate there's not much run off there, but at least he was okay and in good spirits.

Yeah that's the one, thanks 😊. I was with a silver 172 that caught the flamer crash. 😥

I was there in a cup (black and blue). Quite alot of people went off, still I great day. I do enjoy Oulton.

Great project. And attention to detail instead of just throwing it in. What width tyre are you running on your 8"Braids.? Im considering moving from 7" to 8" Thanks

I've used Windows 10 fine. When you plug the USB in and out does it recognise the new hardware and give you the option of installing drivers etc. Can you view the USB in device manager, maybe as an unknown device rather than a serial adaptor.

I'm running epas with mine. I'm using a Exide ETL-20h well under 1kg. I've even accidentally ran it flat, and it's been spot on.

Great progress. Any downsides with the cup racer style engine mounts? I have a Job list of ideas to improve and save weight on my own track car. You seem to do these before I get chance, or do others that I then add to my list. I find your build thread very useful :) The alternator looks very...

This is my setup. ignore the channel allocation, and the OX FB Rate is set to 0 ms as it's in open loop. Thanks

Hi. I set the feedback rate to 0ms. I can check the channel name, and any other info you need tomorrow