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Would be interesting to see a video from Combe, that is a fast lap indeed!

Yes! How about that for a slow reply ? Not been on here for bloody ages...

I've used some almost-to-the-wear-bars 595 RSRs in some pretty horrible conditions - you just have to not drive like a spaz. Overall, a really good tyre for the price IMO.

Thanks for the shout Jamie - hope you're all sorted now Daz, if not feel free to give me a shout :up:

Ah, cheers dude, appreciate that! (Sorry, only just seen the tag) Regarding Hunter equipment, it's designed to be fast and easy for the general garage monkey to use. There's a reason race teams use string...

Oh, had some 1155s on the back of a car once too, weren't any better than OE pads and didn't last any longer either.

Yep, love the DS1.11s. Great feel, don't fade, last ages. Used them on the road (with non-servoed brakes and twin masters) and no issues there either, fine from cold as long as you remember! 1144s: s**t. RC5: Also very good. DS2500s: Decent if you can get through the fiddly bedding in process...

Agreed, to a point. Though if the rears aren't showing the same wear pattern it indicates a handling balance issue, with the fronts doing all the work, hence the rear arb question :)

Agreed. IR gun is next to useless for tyres unfortunately. Does the car suffer a lot of understeer? Any vids? Looks like the tyre is getting 'scrubbed' across the track surface to me. Do you have a rear ARB?

Heh - the only reason I'd get one is as an investment, they do look kinda cool though. How's the car feel now? Better?

Haha - hello! Used to have a 172 Cup but got rid of that to buy the MX-5... stuck around here for some reason, no idea why, stupid wrong wheel drive shitboxes :P

No worries! Thanks for the shiny injectors. A fun evening of tinkering always goes down well (like your mum, waheeyyyyy) :smile:

Was he pulled over at the side of the road cleaning it?

Thanks guys! Ste - IMO you need more dedication when you aren't just lobbing cash at stuff, you need to understand how and why things are done rather than just the benefits you get from doing them, which is the most rewarding bit :)

More tinkering this week... From playing around with / researching into various things, it looks like the car has under 80bhp at the rear hubs. This is ~20bhp down on the race car, and explains the poor top end speed. I was really hoping the lack of screen would free things up a bit here, so the...

I thought you were! Yeah, guess it's not a full on track but you still have to wang the car around at the limit of grip, and the car takes it absolutely fine :)

Cheers, I think there's a lot more to come through Hall Bends too! Ace, should be a cracking day :) They handle really well as standard, I take my daily on track every now and then and it's brilliant fun. See 1:24 onwards:

So, Cadwell yesterday: Whistle stop run-down: Up at 4am, got there just before 8. Sign on, noise test - 88dB, haha (more on that later). Very hot and very sunny, had a Cornetto and got sunburn! Plenty of car sharing (Munter had 3 different drivers and 5 different passengers) and laughs. Not...

Cheers dude. At Cadwell tomorrow, unfortunately I've never been in the Westy but would love to one day! Speaking of which... I lobbed together this video yesterday, and it was a fairly surprising result. Westy has over double the bhp and is over 200kg lighter, on 888s rather than slicks and the...

Haha, cheers guys. It looked like those 20ps might be critical at one point! Spent a bit more time bolting bits of B&Q to the car this weekend, with the aim of reducing drag a touch, and tinkered with a few other things. First up was a small front air dam type thing, made from more PVC...

Just totted up the costs... Despite spending £140 on seats and £145 on brake lines it's ended up under budget :D

Just an hour of testing, cheap and local though, didn't wanna go all the way to Cadwell and have issues! They would, about 1.5-2kg a wheel, but at a cost of about 50% of the build budget! Oversteer is mostly encouraged yes, there's a bit much understeer at the moment if you don't upset the car.

First outing today, exactly a month after I got it! Since the last pics a few small jobs have been done and it was also attacked in a very pikey fashion with 6 cans of Simoniz's finest 'Satin Matt Black' - which turns out to be an absolute pig to get a decent finish with compared to the 'Matt...

Yeah, it's all the RWD gubbins, the roof, subframes, etc. It's actually pretty heavy for an early 90s car I reckon! Anyway, it had it's maiden voyage this weekend around the industrial estate, got up to temp fine, holds very good oil pressure (although I am using 10w60) and the engine runs...

Haha, sadly not :P Cheers dude, tbh it is a Lego car really, so simple to bash together! Appears the grinder will be making an appearance again... there has to be 3kg somewhere...

That's the look I'm going for :laughing:

More bad mobile phone pics, but getting there now... Steering wheel spacer boshed out on the lathe, steering wheel swapped and rear view mirror in place (managed to use the original one with some mental juggling!): Headlight blanks in place. Probably the best ones I've done to date, happy...

Bit much for me but I shall have an ask around - cheers.

Cheers dude but they'll be too expensive for this build! How much is cheap, can ask around if you like? A few of the guys I race with have been thinking about a set.

Sounds ideal :up: Yeah man no worries, just let us know when you're ready :)