My engine put a rod throught the block
Oh no that was the last engine sorry :rasp:
Engine is running fine , got a real bark to it now after Sandy mapped it , did notice the oil pressure had dropped during the Saturday morning stages but the oil was around 100 degree's on the stage , after cooling down on the road sections it was back up again , so i'll be fitting an oil cooler just to be on the safe side.
Had an up and down rally , the Saturday night stages were a handful ! just a shame I went off but thats rallying , didn't do too much damage , and didn't really lose a lot of time , but then coming up the the 2 really tight hairpins were a joke as there was a few cars stopped waiting in turn to have a go round them , lost more time on these than I did going off , the second night stage had a lot more grip , but being then held up through the stage by another competitor was crap , he should have been excluded for what he did , fvcked a few peoples times up and the officials wouldn't do anything about it so myself and my mate in the nova decided not to go back out and enter the trophy rally , for those that don't know , if your car breaks on the first day , and you can fix it , they run a small rally for these on the back of the main rally so at least we can get more stages in , my mate was so pissed off with what went on friday he went out and got drunk and didn't bother with the saturday run , pity really as they were the best stages.
I wasn't happy mind to get there saturday morning and find that the person who had caused the hold ups had his time amended and was now 4th overall , but all the people he held up were told there times would stay , so how does that work ? karma bit them on the arse on saturday afternoon and they broke a shaft on the last stage to retire.
The saturday stages were going well for us , and we were leading the trophy rally after the second stage , but the third stage I clipped another granite wall after carrying a bit to much speed into a series of slippy bends , we dropped about 20 seconds on that stage and bent a front arm slightly and the rear beam , tried to set the tracking up by eye , the car was drivable but very twitchy which is not what you want down some of those tight lanes , so we backed off to make sure we didn't make anymore mistakes , just got caught out on a square left and it tugged me into the bank , which we drove up and very very nearly tipped it over onto the roof , I thought it was over but it stayed put and stalled , so full right turn , start it up , and moved very slowly which got it back on the road , a quick wave to the spectators watching and cheering and we were on our way again lol
Fair play the car is looking rather second hand , needs a new axle , new rear bumper , new front bumper , new wings , headlights , and a tug of the front panel as its gone back slightly , needs whatevers bent on the front drivers side replacing ! I'm supposed to be back out on another rally in 3 weeks so will see how we get on with it , may have to leave it and not do that rally as i'm also doing Wales Rally GB in my Golf in November so may have to concentrate on that instead
Cheers Ian