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I said we had drove down last night, camped (I had the tent etc in my car) and were there for the bike racing that was on today...lol!
The full video of where the box went (probably fastest few laps of the day) is here:
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Bit of a writeup about Mallory...
Decided to take a pair of Kumho cut slicks (205/50/15) to try if I got the chance, ended up putting them on after two outings just because I wanted to try them... the 'Session 3' video below was just after fitting them...
Yeah, was on 170k mind lol
a foot or two, lol
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It was welded up dude, not had the shaft out yet so dont know, new box has a bolt in diff anyway so shouldnt have any probs!
Yup ready and waiting :)
It was the RTOC National Day/Weekend over the past few days, based at Mallory Park. Quite a big turnout, large variation of cars, but still alot of Renault Turbos around :)
...Camp Rig Up
Mine on track...
Until...
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And today I...
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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 :)
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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 :)
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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 :)
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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...
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yeah unfortunately it was forward facing and my mate chickened out :( I thought that was the clip you meant too :(
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.
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
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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.