Update:
Successfully attended Blyton Park for the 2nd time at the weekend.
Major thanks to the old man who rebuilt the GTI-6 calipers for me, only to find that it was the master cylinder that was causing the dodgy brakes pulling to one side :dapprove: Thats what you get sometimes when buying second hand off Ebay. Had to revert back to the original MC, no bad thing really.
With the brakes restored there was the slight issue of the rear caliper bleed nipple which was documented earlier in this thread. As we were unsure about their being air still in the system (And at this point we hadn't diagnosed the MC) then the old man thought just getting a new nipple would work if we could extract the old. After falling out with the wife (again) I left him to it, but to no avail
Luckily a friend of a friend had a spare caliper and less than 24 hours before the track day we had it replaced and bled - great success.
Poly windows have arrived - but didn't get chance to fit them for this outing.
Anyway, the track day was great. 5 of us took cars and it was a great day out comparing performance and driving ability. I'm pleased to say that the saxo felt as strong as ever - now with a new radiator, the temps stayed low. With upgraded brakes I had to re-learn the braking points but KenH on the forum had us down at over a second quicker than our last time out. I also managed to remove a bit more weight from inside (on 10kg or so) and the weight + power gained from the stainless steel 4-2-1 was also of benefit.
And so here are some photos from the day:
Check out them front brakes :approve:
Nearly 3-wheeling again, will need to sort that.
Dan spent most of his time on 3 wheels tbf - the clio cup went pretty well though.
Len had new suspension but still couldn't get past the fancy colour 182.
Dave's 205 was a bit poorly and he only had limited runs after having to change the fuel pump.
The other Dan in the group had issues with his saxo - basically running mis-matched front dampers caused instability in corners and he is steering into the slide here.
but in the end, the yellow beast said no.
Great fun though.
Next things are to get the stud and nut conversion sorted. Unfortunately saxo's run two types of nuts depending on the rims you use. My road wheels use flat seated, where as the TD 1.2's run tapered. So thats another £30 on wheel nuts just spent so I have two sets FFS. Obviously there are the windows to install as well as removing the window motors and associated switches.
The gearbox oil will also be changed - as this hasn't been done.
Got all the stuff, just don't have the free time at the moment.
My long term aim has now changed. I am 90% set on doing a bit of home aero in an attempt to stop me spending silly money on parts. There isn't much wrong with the saxo in its current form and it is every much as quick and fun as a clio - but where do you stop?! It has already started to become a money pit and by modding the engine even further, I think I'm going to make it more unreliable. SO... I'm going to spend a few months just prototyping a few aero ideas.
Spare front bumper, spare rear bumper and spoiler will be the next purchases so i can attempt to create my design, which will encompass:
- Front air dam
- 100mm splitter, potentially angled on the under tray to act as a front difuser
- Fog blanks (or angled ducting direct to brakes)
- smoothed bumper recesses (duct tape ftw)
- removed plastic grill (lower) exposing radiator and engine bay to more flow
- rear bonnet raisers to direct exiting engine air flow onto windscreeen flow
- potential single wiper conversion (touring car cente stop lolz)
- raised 20 degree rear spoiler
- Gurney flap on trailing edge of spoiler
- potentially cut away the rear bumper recess which is acting as a parachute!
All ideas, but something I'm keen to experiment with - rather than throwing money at throttle boddies and cams etc.
We'll see... not used a jigsaw in years!
