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Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project If you didnt have bad luck you'd have no luck at all :dapprove:

Lol,

17th April 2011 - A Rush To Get ready We have been planning on some gearbox changes for a while. We had a spare box hanging around and got it stripped over the winter. This was from an early 172 (I think it was the box from the old track car) so it has a taller, less desirable, final drive...

On another note, Burpspeed 3rd driver is making his way up the junior racing ladder.............

wednesday morning. test day not track day

He's already driven it Were testing at Mallory next week

We have stiffer front springs than we started with so can run less camber after checking tyre temps at Snetterton end of last season. we struggled to slow it down at Snett as were only running on the insde edges of the tyres so less rubber touching the ground in a straight line. We wont know...

Its even worse seeing this pic............... :eek:

Van obviously slower than his previous best lap time

Box fitted, a little run in the car park to make sure it all works And a vid of the flames, i know how we all like flames

Not Prada, they like R888 but with more tread. Like hankok RS2

Ian Collins was running them on his black clio at Mallory and Snetterton. did ok there

In the ideal world we would of rebuild our dampers for this season. But they only did 12 hours last year so we didnt. Maybe its because were older (wiser) but we spend our money on running/driving/racing the thing. Its all about making it reliable and cheaper to run first. speed comes second...

yea generaly a box with a plate diff will need regualr oil changes as the plates wear all the s**t ends up in the oil

Ive no idea, we havent got one

No limits on power. we can have what ever we like as long as its still NA and original engine. We are not lacking in top end speed. yes more power would make us quicker over a lap but were still working on the cars setup to make it quicker in a race. Not planning on any engine mods (internal)...

your not odd (well maybe just a bit ;)) the reason we didnt do it during the build was down to cost, plain and simple. The other Clio's in the series dont have them either. It was always on the to do list. if we'd of put a diff in it last year we would of only had the budget to do 4 races. Id...

We know that its not the ultimate diff we could of bought but its a fit and forget part. And better than standard. We dont really go bouncing over kerbs that much, our main problem was slow 2nd gear stuff. Got left for dead by stuff with 30bhp less than us in the traction zones. End of straight...

Problem is we have made other changes since we last run at Mallory and its been resurfaced. The championships that have been there this year have gone quicker than 2010. That is a natural thing that cars go quicker year after year, if you look back at the tintops laptimes for the last few...

Not quite sure what you are asking mate. Our heater matrix and pipes are as per standard

Originaly planned for winter '11/'12. we changed our minds to getting it done during our summer break and then decided to give it a go for getting it done for Brands. Timescale was/is tight but we have some great people helping us and got it all done. We had a scruffy old 182 box to use, it...

3 word update............... Quaife, mmmm, Nice

this is who supplys our race club, they do Yoko http://www.adamsandpage.co.uk/tyres/racing-tyres/ We use Dunlops from Mr Tyre Motorsport

^ is that what we got? Ours look fine, (They are see through and keep the wind out, what more do they need to be)

PE2's job done

Only just got around to reading this mate, great job, shame about the problems but lap time is none to shabby. Good luck at Cadwell, we will be at Brands on the same day

30 MIN Practice/Quali 40 MIN Race So somewhere like Mallory its around 45 laps, where as Oulton its around 20 laps

its a 50 litre tank so we can work out how much we need roughly. we have finished races with 1/4 tank before but obviously with long SC period we use much less

By Fook, thats quick! :eek:

As bomber says we use as much as 45 litres in some races. if we ever did the 1 hour race at Spa we would only just have a enough with a standard size tank