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27/04/11
Small update, no real work done to the car as simple lack of time.
Subframe/wishbones cleaned up:
Stiffening plates & bearings for wishbones:
Package from Mr Faulks.
Flywheel.
A bloody great box...... with a heated windscreen & loom + plastic windows all round inside...
The problem was with the injector pockets not sealing correctly on the jenvey MR23 in once case. We have resolved this with our own MR25 Manifold.
Old (left) New (right). You can see the weld on the old hand unit around the base of each of the injector pockets.
I've had pipercross units do this, the rubber strip comes away tears exposing the edge of the metal frame that supports the foam - is that similar to what you have?
Head tea boy. ;)
Well for example in the above my job was to remove and refit all of the damaged steering & suspension assembly on both the near and offside. So that consists of the parallel same length wishbones, rack & mounts, dampers, chassis lugs etc etc. (These had to be remade from...
I still own and run JMS, but I also work for Westbourne Motorsport maintaining and servicing / prepping and repairing the cars both at base and at the testing / race events throughout the year. This entails everything from washing wheels, to on-the-fly repair work as above.
We see the cars as...
Certainly are solid. Unfortunately in this instance the impact pushed the engine support frame along the front cross member back into the belts = big mess.
We were jumping for joy at getting the car finished, six of us - three on body work / clam replacement and three on the engine / front...
A bit shaken, but otherwise fine. Bent the steering wheel holding onto it!
It ran a second off the pace or so, so not competitive unfortunately. We replaced the steering wheel as the old one had bent so badly it would not complete a LTL, however the replacement was not intended for the car so...
The weekend just passed kicked off the BTCC championship, along with their supporting championships.
We have two cars this year, the usual clio x85 cup driven by Jame Colburn (4th place last year) and a new driver Myles Collins in a Ginetta Junior class (saxmax champion last year). More info...