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Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project This one?

Cool, some good pics there!

Link does not work lol

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project They are 205/50/15's, GG compound..... Only got them as they were a tenner a tyre a few months back, as the guy couldnt use them on the road anymore. They've done 3 days (two wet) and still got a fair amount left. They are pretty wide but I seem to have...

I just read the whole first page and was going to ask a few questions about what else you were going to do, but I carried on reading the following pages and all the questions were answered lol. Cheers for the comments too!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project The car performed well at Mallory over the weekend, not a single problem which is unusual! Especially towards the end of the day when the track was dry it drove brilliantly, quite some difference to how it did last year. Although, I was sometimes a bit...

Found a few more good ones out of your lot Alex... Steve, is this your MX5?

Some good pics by Penfold :)

If it ran Andrews car when he testsed it I dont think it can be, unless you are very unlucky

Wasnt timing as it was only a track day - but going from the last video probably around or just under the 60 second mark, hard to tell. Comparing that to last years video its acctually slower, as there were some 57-58 sec laps before my gearbox went. Admittedly I was pushing harder round...

Dont think I did :( I think I came past you in some of the footage just as you were turning into the paddock, thats about it lol.

Another good weekend organised by RTOC, quite a number of ClioSport members took part too which was great. Good to meet a few new people and the usuals - Tom@Wests Renault, Steve, Stevieh, Barnesautos etc! Camping was interesting as always as im sure the rest will agree, especially with the...

Yeah, could see it twitching as he pulled away on the straights a few times when I was behind lol. Should be interesting to do a trackday in the dry!

This is definately one quick car lol, pulls away with ease on the straights as it should! You make an appearance at 5m56s..

Good to meet you over the weekend and have a few good drives out on track, even if it was a bit slippery... ...and 4m40 onwards in this one... Alex got quite a number of pics of your car on track too I think, ive got some of them here - will have a look through later and post them up :)

sorry yeah I meant once his fuel pump is priming, it will receive 12v for a few seconds. Then when cranking a constant 12v

Not had chance to read the lot but the fuses/relays look the correct types/amounts.. If the immo is active the fuel pump WILL still prime, but you will get no injectors or spark when cranking - thus immobilising the engine. So if your fuel pump is not running I would be checking that first...

Slightly different as the two gearbox mounts (to the gearbox casing) are different, but it still fits... Its easy to get the right length belt... use a piece of string round the correct path then measure the length....go to your local motor factors and get them to order one in :)

Can see it in the picture, brass washer sits into the bracket and is on the nut side, just centers the bolt

Clutch extender bracket is upside down in your picture, the flat 'T' piece goes on the bottom. The brass bit is to centralise the bolt and goes on the nut side, on the opposite side of the box to where the bracket is sat. The bracket sits on the 'outside' of the hole on the box... Its hard to...

Power bands, just lol. Looked good when you popped up the other night, really neat job :)

Yeah - never mind, at least I got another bearing out of it for nothing, just means finding another stub and doing the work again when ive got time :)

Yeah, probably about the same as mine and Whiteleys if you took all the bits you mentioned out too! Pretty much, plenty of spares all ready to go just need to get it all in the cars. Pretty p*ssed off that one of my hubs was knackered so ive got 3 hubs with bolts and one with stubs, oh well!

Good result, especially with a spare wheel and jack! Looking forward to having a gander at the weekend

I saw a 089 with a serial of C012937 once in a picture, not sure what it was from though.. Edit - Im sure JC5 089 is what Matteh's gearbox calculator says is for a Ph1 172, not got it to hand so cant check at the moment

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah - at the time the bearing itself seemed perfectly fine (only covered a few hundred miles) but no doubt it would have got worse - its just wierd that the outer half of the stub was a smaller size, it literally drops into the bearing with room to spare...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Unsure, I turned them but had another guy clean them up for me... The other one is perfect with zero play and took a fair amount of force to press it in fully (as its always been), just wierd how this one is a loose fit and now useless!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Had the car off the floor the other day and noticed a bit of play in the drivers side hub bearing (few hundred miles old). I thought the bearing was knackered already, so ECP agreed to replace it free of charge if I returned the pieces of the 'broken'...

Ph1 and Cup have the speedo drive in the back of the gearbox...the majority (not all) of the others use the ABS system. Take a look down the back of your engine and you will clearly see if its got a speed sensor going into the top of the diff or not.. If its not got one and its using the ABS...

Who knows if this £6 per 5l is even 10w40, its probably crude oil lol.