Clio 182 full fat
So...I and Ben had a track day booked with Destination-Nurburgring for both days (18th/19th July) which had been booked for some time to help motivate getting the car finished and ready. The car in question is a 106 GTI (Project thread here) which is not fully up to date.
Anyway moving on we left last Friday morning at 6 with my brother in his Evo fq320 and Tom in his Clio 172 cup.
Dover Petrol station
On route
Michael Vergers taking passenger round in the radical for 250 euro (far better than a lap in the ring taxi I think!)
3 Apollo Gumbert which Adrian Sutil managed to crash one just after T13
So we decided before the track day started to give the car some test runs baring in mind that it hasn’t been used for 8 months, and majority of the car rebuilt. Anyway after a lap it started tapping loudly top end and got worse with more revs. We left it till next day for another lap and too see if it got any worse, and yes it did...much worse.
We began trying to think what it could be as the car was running very smooth, no smoke, idled fine etc. We went down to rent4ring who were very friendly and asked for some more opinions. Ralph was certain it was not mechanical, and he was right, a spark plug half a turn loose. Sound gone and we were both very happy that the 2 day track day was not over!
So straight away got out for a lap and then this happened!
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Now its 180 euro to be pulled off the track, and it was too dangerous to start looking at the car on the track to see what was wrong. However a couple minutes later we realised no more cars were coming round due to a crash. This gave us a chance to check the car out and luckily it was just sensor on the inlet that came off, two second later and car was back running.
Cancelled the recovery, but they wanted to check the car. Car was checked but he was still certain he wanted it towed off. After a bit of disagreeing he agreed we could drive off slowly! The cheek of it but luckily no charge!
Moving on to the track day we managed 45 laps which is just shy of 600 miles, car performed faultlessly.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking!
Anyway moving on we left last Friday morning at 6 with my brother in his Evo fq320 and Tom in his Clio 172 cup.
Dover Petrol station
On route
Michael Vergers taking passenger round in the radical for 250 euro (far better than a lap in the ring taxi I think!)
3 Apollo Gumbert which Adrian Sutil managed to crash one just after T13
So we decided before the track day started to give the car some test runs baring in mind that it hasn’t been used for 8 months, and majority of the car rebuilt. Anyway after a lap it started tapping loudly top end and got worse with more revs. We left it till next day for another lap and too see if it got any worse, and yes it did...much worse.
We began trying to think what it could be as the car was running very smooth, no smoke, idled fine etc. We went down to rent4ring who were very friendly and asked for some more opinions. Ralph was certain it was not mechanical, and he was right, a spark plug half a turn loose. Sound gone and we were both very happy that the 2 day track day was not over!
So straight away got out for a lap and then this happened!
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Now its 180 euro to be pulled off the track, and it was too dangerous to start looking at the car on the track to see what was wrong. However a couple minutes later we realised no more cars were coming round due to a crash. This gave us a chance to check the car out and luckily it was just sensor on the inlet that came off, two second later and car was back running.
Cancelled the recovery, but they wanted to check the car. Car was checked but he was still certain he wanted it towed off. After a bit of disagreeing he agreed we could drive off slowly! The cheek of it but luckily no charge!
Moving on to the track day we managed 45 laps which is just shy of 600 miles, car performed faultlessly.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking!
