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Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Yeah, got some good videos of when I had no incidents running the cut slicks....alot more fun, can brake as hard as I like and not have to worry about locking up...they will be up later :)

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project yep, thank god! Its ready to lift out now, just removed all the junk/exhaust manifold/plumbing etc :) Yeah....although when diff's have gone in the JB3's before people can select gears and just get no drive....il know more when its out tommorow :)

Standard engine just no PAS etc at the moment....running the 1.8 gearbox though maybe the shorter ratios help?

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Was good to meet you too...yeah was a bit hairy, thankfully stopped before the wall, very very very close to it once stopped! And the video as said above... OSh_DhRemYk

SQenoIRIal8 nice video, I get away slightly on the straights and you catch up on corners.....better tyres needed for me :boring:

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Yeah...got the JB3 with the bolt in diff which needed to go in anyway, its just this one died halfway through the day so didnt really get much time on track!

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project flol. Ive just edited the video of the gearbox incident, uploading at the moment... Going to get the engine out while it does that, check back later :approve: Will do a proper writeup later, re-bled the brakes before we left to go to Mallory and they were...

That too...came past us on the motorway on the way home, mine was on the flatbed... Adeyspec on track? (Got some pics of the car with that sticker btw) Williams with private reg on track? Probably more too, lol.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project engine will be out later most likely :) so il be able to tell what it is, spare box back in tommorow and off I go ;) Got flat bedded back home and its on the driveway atm! Just sorting the vids of when it went :)

Black 182 on Saturday? Two 172 Cups on Saturday? Blue V6 Saturday + Sunday? Few others that I cant remember too..

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project well I dont know if its the diff, box internals, clutch or driveshaft failure yet... Coming round the first corner at mallory after about 7/8 laps, hitting around 100 on the exit in 4th and the box made one hell of a noise, back end came round and had a...

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project yeah unfortunately it was forward facing and my mate chickened out :( I thought that was the clip you meant too :(

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project

also depends if you want a genuine pump, non genuine are not expensive at all, a 1/4 of the genuine price when I got mine, for that price its just worth doing.

its not even loud at all, it just buzzes and rasps like a bee

cheers! Im at mallory on saturday and will have a rear facing bullet camera on the go, will see what I can come up with :)

Pro Race 1.2s 16" IIRC

the vented bonnet? its fishcake on here...we asked him whats been done to it, and he just told us suspension and brakes, lol. I thought something had been done to the engine but we never found out! The ph2 with the carbon bonnet was on bodies and mega stripped

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project Winston told me about it being in there, which issue is it, september? I nipped to tesco yesterday and they only had the august one in, will check in the next few days... Sarah @ PFC asked me to do a feature ages ago, but I said the car wasnt ready...Ive...

looks like you'l be on you're own kneel, just been to the bank to pay some money into my account that I use for paypal, got back and the tickets have gone out of the shop...oh well.

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project will get it sorted today mate

bring on the corners......bye! lol

oh really....cool will order one. and oh really! I better get my cigarette lighter plug in turbo fitted eh ;)

only just found out that I can now attend, after thinking I was originally away over the weekend...Il keep an eye out for anyone getting rid of a stand pass hopefully there will be.

he went to overtake me and the silver 182, then he held back so i went past the 182 and he decides to go for it whilst i was doing so, and nearly goes into the back of me...first video I think it was!

they weigh 995kg standard iirc lol. Gona cut the doors out soon and get it weighed, so quite a lot less than that :)

I wasnt expecing to pass much TBH, most of the time It was the same speed and it was just down to the better driver.... Im on a standard engine now, cams are out at the moment....plus ive added the weight of the cage, so wasnt expecting to be getting miles away... But still, car drove well :)

Few more:

All the ones I got of you Nick :)

Re: Mk1 172 Hybrid Track Car Project someone spotted me looking at the camera guy whilst cornering then haha!