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Considering the state the caravan came back in inside I wouldn't ever consider renting one unless it was a people + drink free zone lol. Took a day to clean and numerous repairs to get it in a condition to sell lol.
Yeh Cambridge, got a few of them. Was an old spare I took, to be honest I think it just kept tripping out/overheating, works ok now but something inside is f*cked I think!
Yeah, Friday was pretty mental. We left them in the marquee on Saturday after heading out in the dark. Came back at 6am and they were gone. Luckily the bike was free and the quad was a cheapie so didnt really matter!
After going to Le Mans in 2011 with a couple of people before continuing on round Europe for a week we decided to do it again in 2012, just on a bit bigger scale. Booked everything before Christmas, then a few months prior started to get some things together.
A couple of us put a few hundred...
I need something that does good MPG (45+) as a daily for work, hence the 320d etc. Too much of a risk to use it on track and break it then not be able to get to work etc..
The gypsey caravan was for Le Mans. Few of us bought it to take and its back on eBay again now lol.
The downfall was always the decoded ECU. Wiring is essentially plug and play (10 wires if that), just the piggy-back emulators were cheap and always broke. Its not possible to just flash a Sirius32 ECU to remove its immobiliser features, the immo signal has to be emulated. Correct they do like...
172 Ph1 engine loom with a valver connector spliced on (for engine), following the guide I made..
Interior was a cut down valver loom with 172 clock connectors spliced on following the other clocks guide..
ECU was unlocked/emulated so it does not need key/loom/UCH/MTU etc
We just got the two connectors for the 172 clocks cut off a 172 loom. Then used the haynes manual to find which pin does what on the valver clock plugs. Then cut each wire that was needed and soldered onto the 172 connectors one by one. Its really that simple... I wrote a simple diagram/table...
One of the deciding factors was how far the unit is away from where I live, and its not something I can keep doing after work in the evenings, just dont get enough time to do anything once I've got up there etc. Weekends I can never be bothered, it would be a good few months before I would even...
Unfortunately I'm breaking this for parts, Its been fun but I simply haven't had the time to touch it since I fitted the suspension to the red shell a few months back, other things taking priority at the moment than building a car and having to work on it/repair it all the time.
I'm buying...
Decided to make a weekend of heading over to Cadwell Park to see Alex H racing in the 750MC considering we hadn't been there since summer last year. Chose the perfect weekend for it really, apart from sitting on the M62 for hours on Friday afternoon..
We eventually got there and got a proper...
Re: Bren's Sunflower 172
Pulled in a few late nights to get the engine built and into the car over the past few days. Skimmed and dipped head, decked and honed block..
Removed the valves to replace the stem seals first..
New vs Old..
Re-lapped the valves..
And refitted...
Only just seen this.... If I had more room (and time for the car!) I may have considered it, but I've still yet to get rid of the smashed up shell and do any further work on the red one. No room and no time = project on hold!
Re: 172 in a mk1, Superfastdan's very very long project....
They were both about 830-840kg dry on R888/Slicks. I had Superleggeras on mine at one point and saved another 15kg