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Plus he's got LSD equipped and has a short ratio box. At he top of 4th I reeled him in, but by that time we were braking and entering the next turn.
Keeping up with Weeman's shed was p*** easy though tbh, I was only on 1/4 throttle.
LOL
It was an out lap. On a day when the track had very poor grip all round. With mismatched (F/R) compounds.
Plus if I went balls out he'd have not stayed in shot for very long ;)
Good work Robert Fenn. Shame your old man gave it all back LOL.
I thought it was lovely and smooth...but I probably have 20 times the suspension travel you do!
Nah, only tried it once in 4th and went so far sideways I thought the apex markers were history...stuck to 3rd for that one to help get the speed down after that.
Video is looking epic Dave, haven't got time to f*** about with it all tonight but will get a short one done before pulling the full length version together.
For reference, taking mine from completely standard to this...
...removed 117kgs so it's easy enough to do...just completely 100% impractical for a day to day car.
182 Cup makes perfect sense to me...less crap to go wrong, same excellent chassis with an easier job to do.
Aye. If you've coughed up for your VED why not use all the road available to you. If he wasn't meant to have crossed those centre lines they'd have been solid, not broken.
Sounds ace fella :approve:
Poorly manufactured they weren't Jon. If the buckle on the failed side had been fitted correctly originally, it never would have failed. I'm quite amazed at how it's lasted this long to be honest, those two thin strips in the last picture (you can clearly see which side failed) were all that was...
Right, spent a bit of time piecing it all together, and the news is.........it was fitted wrong!!!
Here's the other side which is fitted correctly;
In the second picture you can just make out the centre cross bar (black) which takes the load.
What I'm left with from the failed...
Re: Clio 182 BHP
removing my power steering released 7bhp, and that's just from the drag of running the belt/compressor under no load.
Based on that I'd say there's more than 2 or 3 lost to air con.
It's not where it's bolted to the car that's given up though, it's the adjustment retaining buckle thing, that stops it slipping back once you've got it adjusted right. The metal loop itself is still attached to the car, but once this buckle fractured the belt itself could just be pulled free...
Really?
I don't recall when I had it fitted that it was threaded up any way other than as it was when it was delivered?
I'll get clearer pics tomorrow.
I know, I know.
I'm just gutted I haven't got a spare double garage to buy a couple of minters and get them stored for when the current one finally passes on. By the time I do they'll all be badly modded, or just plain f***ed.
Not f***ing happy!!!
I'm at Rockingham in a week, so in advance the Cup got some long overdue TLC today, Tesco carwash followed by a pathetic attempt to rid the wheels of baked on brake dust, tyre pressure check etc.
So I'm out giving it its first proper drive since before Christmas...
Eh?
I did 100k miles in four years commuting 70 miles a day - if you mod it sure it's no good (mine isn't anymore) but as standard why don't you think they're any good as a daily hack???