Just got back from Oulton pretty fkin tired altho i only managed to drive around 6-7 full-on laps all day lol...
Went out for the first session Oil got upto 140degrees after 1 warm up and 1 full-on lap, was pretty gutted tbh so i just thought itd be best to come in and let the car cool down and see what it was like next time...
when i came in and lifted the bonnet noticed coolant pissing out all over the gearbox from the thermostat housing, so took the thermostat housing off, re-siliconed the gaskets then refitted it, also whilst the coolant was drained i previously blanked off the bottom part of thje thermostat housing to save running a hose right past the exhaust manifold and to the lower rad hose, but then i thought it could be building up pressure so thought so then as i tooka load of coolant hoses and jubilee clips luckily had a T-piece too i added in that extra hose then bled all the system, happy days no more leaks..
then i noticed oil on the floor.. form where my breather hoses were pointing and kinda pointing towrads the nearside wheel arch, then i looked and noticed oil EVERYWHERE in the wheel arch, was pretty annoyed at this point considering i only done 1 full on lap in the first 2hours of the day,s o then got a 1liter conatiner to act as a catch tank, thanks to mark for that, so that sorted that out...
so after 2-2 1/2hrs of pissing about i headed out just before dinner, but still can only do 2 laps max before the oil temperature was creeping the red on the gauge, so just had to keep doing that all day...
after i came back in after that session looked in the catch tank and noticed it had 1/2 a litre init already after like 2 full on laps, maybe just down to the temp of the oil and how thin it got or what but still 1/2 a litre after 5mins hard driving!?
so as i said only managed probs 6-7 full on laps all day as i thought i wanna drive home tonight so next ont he list is an oil cooler and some thicker oil, thinking of some 10w40 would be ideal...
Had some fun having a play with the tyre pressures and damper settings tho learnt abit more about my car, and the R888s are awesome but not worth 80quid a tyre imo!
also weighed the car, it had 3/4 tank of fuel in (so around 25litres/25kgs) and wioth the r888s on which are around 5kgs a tyre heavier than your normal road tyres... the car weighed in at 768kgs which i thought is pretty light lol...
so thats basically with little fuel in and road tyres around 725kgs, so 725kgs/172 bhp = 237bhp/tonne