Coops Mk1
ClioSport Club Member
Lots of Scrap...
for my birthday i partook in the RTOC national day at Blyton park. I used this as an opportunity to test my poverty spec engine build 
The car had done about 300 miles on the rebuilt engine, which in case anyone wants to know went against pretty much every rule in the book. I reused my 14k old pistons and rings in a second hand block that just had a hone, and I also reused the oversize bearings from the crank in the new block. So save for re-using the cam belt and head bolts, I pretty much cut corners! lol!
I rolled through the Blyton park gates on the saturday morning with just those 300 miles under its belt. quick briefing session later and bang, out onto track the turbo went! without a moments hesitation!
Ran it all day and it never skipped a beat...well apart from boiling the brake fluid repeatedly........need to sort the brakes! The engine pulled beautifully and apart from a few snicks into 3rd on the gearbox, the drivetrain held up well as well. The track was very hard on driver and car, lots of fast but short straights into difficult and tight chicanes, great track though and very good for beginners as theres nothing to hit really if you spin/come off bar other users and corn fields.
Either way, by mid afternoon I'd heard the rolling road was actually laid on gratis as part of the entry, another excellent little perk from RTOC, so I rolled straight off the track and onto the rollers, charge temps weren't too bad but put it this way, guy struggled to get it onto rollers as i'd boiled the brakes again and they werent working!lol! so the car was a tad warm!
None to shabby for a build using re-used rings and bearings and slapped together on a grassy/muddy hill in Derbyshire
H
oped for a bit more really, car feels as quick as it did last year so be interesting to see if i can maintain the 117mph terminals at pod in September and keep in the low 12 second passes!
But either way, chuffed! car did full day at Blyton and a RR all on a 'dodgy' engine, take that nay sayers! mwuhahahahahahahha! :rasp:
The car had done about 300 miles on the rebuilt engine, which in case anyone wants to know went against pretty much every rule in the book. I reused my 14k old pistons and rings in a second hand block that just had a hone, and I also reused the oversize bearings from the crank in the new block. So save for re-using the cam belt and head bolts, I pretty much cut corners! lol!
I rolled through the Blyton park gates on the saturday morning with just those 300 miles under its belt. quick briefing session later and bang, out onto track the turbo went! without a moments hesitation!
Ran it all day and it never skipped a beat...well apart from boiling the brake fluid repeatedly........need to sort the brakes! The engine pulled beautifully and apart from a few snicks into 3rd on the gearbox, the drivetrain held up well as well. The track was very hard on driver and car, lots of fast but short straights into difficult and tight chicanes, great track though and very good for beginners as theres nothing to hit really if you spin/come off bar other users and corn fields.
Either way, by mid afternoon I'd heard the rolling road was actually laid on gratis as part of the entry, another excellent little perk from RTOC, so I rolled straight off the track and onto the rollers, charge temps weren't too bad but put it this way, guy struggled to get it onto rollers as i'd boiled the brakes again and they werent working!lol! so the car was a tad warm!
None to shabby for a build using re-used rings and bearings and slapped together on a grassy/muddy hill in Derbyshire
H
oped for a bit more really, car feels as quick as it did last year so be interesting to see if i can maintain the 117mph terminals at pod in September and keep in the low 12 second passes!
But either way, chuffed! car did full day at Blyton and a RR all on a 'dodgy' engine, take that nay sayers! mwuhahahahahahahha! :rasp:
