Kev,

Good to see you haven't run out of things to do to your car yet!

Won't flock and glue add weight? Better to use some rough sandpaper?!

Keep up the good work!

 

flat4 where did you get those carbon pulley covers from they look sooooo nice

matt

 

no idea got them off my mate after he'd crashed his car, they were pretty beaten up managed to rescue them, the centre section is a carbon layer over the original plastic, the outer covers are carbon front & back never seen them advertised, off an import so that might have something to do with it

 

I like the arty photo's They're the first pictures like that I've seen in a projects thread. You could be starting something

The second photo looks like you have some fairy's or summat whizzing around!

Do the flocking so we can all have a larf if you 'flock it up'

F

 

What's going on?


'Fairies and Arty photos'?
Thought this site was for engineers not Marketing. ( )

Get making that timing strut Kev. It all stsrts for you sooner than you think.

Graham.

 

So Kev hows the shopping list coming along

 

not sure where my strut is going to attach, not got any supports left on my bumper in the rad opening, god forbid i have to screw into my bumper

 

Kev you have PM

 

^^^ has just offered to pay for anything i see at Autosports that takes my fancy








in my dreams

 

went to Autosports yesterday plenty of things to looks at thought i'd managed to leave without spending any money until i enquired at the EBC stand about brake pads and was offered 50% off so came away with a set of yellow stuff front and rear pads for 50 odd quid thought it was worth testing them out for that money

 

she could of had me if she played her cards right

 

she could have smiled..

 

Kev in the end I only came away with those leads I showed you

No one was doing any whiteline stuff there

 

cue everyone else on SN coming back with loads of bargains we didn't spot

 

Will be getting the demon tyres/tweeks from the usual secret places..

She didn't smile because she didn't want him...last year they smiled at him.

Hope tomorrow won't be too busy with armchair racers.

My brake pads will cost me soon 4 x that Kev, wonder if they will stop 4 x better?

Should I use Kumho or Dunlop or Hoosier this season?
Graham

 

TBH, i used yellow stuff pads on Mikee's car at Donnington and they were really good, good at low temperature and never faded, hoping for much of the same


if you visit the Kumho stand you may well bump into her ^^^ can't say the same for Hoosier

 

No List 1B's on Hoosier I'm afraid Graham, I asked...

Silverstone had some new ones though...

 

hink i will be staying with Kumho after talking to them today.
Avon were not interested, and Dunlop had no tyres or staff on the stand. Pretty girls, but no techies.
Graham

 

didn't stay long then? they had to throw us out



saved another 3.5Kg today, 4 speakers removed + a bit of inner skin on the front doors while the door cards were off head unit still to go

 

I've got a company lined up to flock my dash

 

Flock that... think of the weight man......

Ignore me, flocking looks great and does away with the glare in the windscreen.....

 

Why do you actually need a dash (as in a stock unit) for an out and out race car?
Graham

 

yeah, just tie wrap your clocks to the steering column David


saved another 2Kg today by replacing the boot hinges with bonnet pins

 

A nice Stack module i was thinking of....

Are you doing a running total Kev.
When on the Kumho stand 4 beauties were there, but daughter with me so no pics

Graham.

 

new pads turned up this week, just fitted them, old ones were completely shagged so far they're alot better but won't know until they're fully bedded in

i also have a cunning intercooler trick up my sleeve

 

small update, managed to replace the leaking IC spray bottle today. scrap yard and 3 quid later got me a tank well over 5L in size and 3 times as big as the previous one





wanted it located behind the seat for better weight distribution but i'd never be able to fill it up



did manage to relocate the washer bottle where i wanted to though



left a nice open space in the engine bay (note the coiled up IC tubing ready for IC spray Mk.IV ) just collecting a few things before i tackle that little project

 

you gotta laugh at my fuel reg mounting, kept fouling on the bonnet and shredding the vacuum piping

you can also see the boot lid minus the hinge and bonnet pins in place

 

I'm thinking of ditching my water spray all together. I measured the temps, with and without the spray and recorede a drop of 1-2C! Hardly worth the effort IMO. I have misters as well and I know the pattern covers the hole of the core.

F

 

it'll come come together when i've finished phase 2 & 3

 

Remember you need to get ice cubes into the bottle too.
Wish I had thought of using the TMIC tapped holes for the end brackets Kev, neat.
David at API has a real spec C tank for the IC from behind the seat..huge capacity.

TBH i agree with Floyd, the water spray iced or not does bugger all unless the TMIC core and end tanks are COLD, and that is hard to do with a TMIC and a long wait to start a hill climb, but a FMIC maight be different(?)

CO2 is the only answer?

Please work harder Kev so we can assess the sculduggary afoot.
Graham.