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Broke down quite early on with a leaky oil cooler - maybe dodgy part, maybe terrible fitting. Easiest thing to do was to rip the entire thing off. After all, hot oil has less drag and no oil cooler means about 1kg saving in oil! Car looks pretty decent out there (and not like an Indian takeaway...
So didn't really manage to do many updates, but we've now had Practice Day for the start of the season and I was beaten by a takeaway driver in a Micra!
Over the winter I swapped the heavy seats for lighter, cheap OMP ones:
Set to work ripping the front end apart to treat some rust and attempt...
Aside from the fact that I detest the VW scene, I like this a lot. Kudos! Paint looks ace - please don't ever change that shitty rear plate. :tongueout:
Do it! Very technical so good fun, not like some courses that have two corners and are 700m long. Loads of caterfields of varying build quality & engine type, capacity and aspiration.
So I'm well behind on updating this - I'm really useless at taking photos as I go. Today was my first event at Harewood, I managed to get the car finished last week, turned up early this morning with the five mile journey being the longest I'd spent in the car so far. Never driven Harewood...
Goto this link: http://bit.ly/2sr69Ze
It'll display funny text, then go to www.game.co.uk, click on your basket, which will contain a Snes mini, pay, done.
Car now passed the shoe test..
and it was time to start on the front - this is where things got interesting. I was sure that if every bolt at the rear was seized and rounded, then the front would be just as bad. I was wrong - every fastener at the front had been undone recently and was...
Had a bit of time off work in December for some religious holiday or whatever, so wasted no time in having a look around the car to see what was good and what wasn't so good. It mostly wasn't so good. MOT history showed it had been off the road for a considerable time, it passed its most...
Some of you may remember back about six/seven years ago, I bought myself an XR2 and went racing, see:
http://www.cliosport.net/threads/my-first-race.537339/
http://www.cliosport.net/threads/donington-race-report-classic-stock-hatch.659383/
I sold the car in 2012 and for various reasons didn't...
Great experience so far. They've finally fixed the degradation - it happens naturally over the course of a race to make the car more difficult to drive quickly, rather than impossible to drive in previous games. Haven't broken the wheel out of the cupboard yet, just using xbox pad on PC and...