Emotion Hell no, on a serious note, everyone of them has a serious character defect, as do you !! However, this would have been a very different year without external help...yours included.

---john---

 

 

No probs re the loan of the door

Anytime.. Actually no, not ANY time.

David

 

Reshelling the car again. Rather than the needs/must job mid season I intend building a proper fit for purpose job this time. Picked up the new shell today, plenty of work in front of me now over the winter. I was expecting a bare shell but was pleasantly surprised by the amount of useful stuff left on the shell. Dash, 'full' wiring loom, pedal box, master cylinders, side windows, etc....

Oh and it also included most of the things under the dash that would be connected to the loom.





This is where Graham throws a hissy fit and takes me off of his christmas card list.... again

 

Yep, no cards now for 2 whole years!
I've been more nasty on 22B! (less sensitive over there)

Graham

 

Have you considered putting a smaller fuel tank in the spare wheel space, Im currently in the middle of building a small tank, but a nightmare fireproofing the boot area

 

Then why not fabricate a small 'sprint' tank and mount it in the same place as the road tank (assuming you trailer the car to events)
It will be safe down there, and you can use the factory cover plate/pipes etc and the Scrutes will be impressed!
Graham

 

I thought you had to retain the original fuel tank for sprinting ? but could add a small one if you wished. I'm in road going Class. Will have another look in the blue book.

 

I have a 10litre tank in the boot. Original tank was binned 3 years ago because I was still getting fuel surge at over half a tank. .

---john---

Specific Regs in the Scottish championship are quite liberal compared to Blue book.

 

Mmmm:
Maybe in the STOCK road class you do keep the original tank, but not sure, happy reading of the Blue Book!
A friend used to hillclimb an RA and had a Powerstation swirl-pot added in the engine bay and he could run on much less than 1/4 tank.
I need 1/2 on some hills, especially Loton Park.

Lost a class 2nd place to that surge

Graham

 

www.500whp.com

 

Oooooo

 

Update time I guess, due to the new parental responsibilities I have made V little progress with the new shell so intend starting this season using the current car..... with a few tweeks
Power wise the car should be similar to the end of last season, but drive train and suspension will be a little different. I reckon I have a little more weight to lose off of the car too.
Mr Forrest did a sterling job re-mapping the car for my last event last season after the turbine housing was changed for a 0.63 housing from Lateral Performance, transformed the car, so maybe not quite the same power wise

---john---

 

That's a bit of a light up-date!

Have your tyre rules changed for 2008?

I will be running real AVONS for the first time this year, in 3 weeks time to be precise....do i have the nerve to drive it faster on them?
Will miss the Kumho V70's for sure, simply brilliant 1B tyre.

You need to pop down and sort the Quattro V8 out!

 

That's all I could manage at 02:30

 

Neighbours alarm went off about that time today...

A picture speaks a 1000 words, (hint)

 

Had the car out for the first time at Kames yesterday, a place I know well, so a good testing environment for me, though with only 4 runs not to much can be acheived bearing in mind this was competition.
I spent Thursday/Friday/Saturday removing/replacing the rear running gear and Gearbox.
Fitted the car with an R180 rear end from a bugeye and DCCD to the Gearbox.
Twiddled a bit with the DCCD settings in practice then left it alone for the timed runs.
Managed an 86.94 on my second Run taking 0.48 out of the track record, so a pretty good result to start the season on.
I'd gone quicker in practice but the Wastegate flange weld sprang a leak so wasn't making boost target, but Hey Ho a result is a result.

---john---

 

Thats very impressive John!

What spec front diff do you run?

Simon

 

Nice one John
That qualifying spec map still ok then

 

Simon, Quaife ATB up front and now a Suretrack in the rear.

Andy, 'Qualifying Map' awesome, it was difficult to quantify at Alford, but at Kames I know what happens where, or I did ....it's all happening much earlier now

The car is ballistic out of a second gear bend

 

Well done John.

Per the MLR there is someone beating you at Golspie(sp?)

 

Yesterday was my first event.... There were 4 Evos going very fast at Golspie at a club Sprint last week nothing much separated them. Two of them were at Kames yesterday but not the ONE that won so we'll need to see

---john---

EDITED BECAUSE OF DYSLEXIA

 

Look forward to meeting you at a few more events this year John, though I'll try not to Jinx you again like I did at Alford

 

EVO's turn up everywhere!
I have 3 buzzing about in 2007 and 3 Impreza's.
Then there is the Audi.

 

Pretty sure you are not the Jinx John, I recon it's my brother-in-law (Dyce) car always breaks when he's around.
Be good to see you this year, I'm not taking the Hills championship seriously this year as parental duties must be considered, so concentrating on the sprint Championship, might be at fintry, but only if it suits family commitments/work.
P.S. your timing of the KH Trackday in May is poor this year, week after my Sprint there and clashes with Kames, you really must do better

---john---

 

Sounds like your having an Eddie moment . What was that rear axle doing in the back of your wagon the other day? I reckon your up to no good monkey boy!

Need some more pictures of the beast as it looks good in last aprils pics.

 

Hi Jon, I'm always up to no good !!!!

---john---

 

Sounds about right Just wait till my wagons up to scratch!!

-J

 

John, sorry about the KH dates this year, but it was a case of Hobson's choice with the dates - we do have July (same day as time attack - reckon your car would do very well in that event if entered!), but day before TOTB. Quite a few going to do both events, so should be a good weekend.

We've also got 15th September if that's of any interest to you ?

Won't make Doune this weekend, but should be along to Alford and Fintray, and possibly even Golspie.

Cheers

John

 

John I hope you realise my comments about KH were tongue-in-cheek

I hope to do TOTB (if picked) so won't be at KH the day before. I would be taking the family to York so the logistics of decanting a 13 month old make things more difficult than chucking a car on the trailer at KH and heading for York. I will endeavour to get to one of the SIDC days at some point, I find the atmosphere at these very pleasant/relaxed and the track manners/time excellent. Saying that, I may be at KH TA to observe or assist if anyone needs it. Not having a commercial interest in doing well in TA I don't think it is value for money, it is just sprinting at a greatly inflated price (I realise this is directly atributable to the cost of the circuits being used, not having a dig at organisers).

Really looking forward to Doune, going without agenda this year so will spend the time trying to gain some data for setting the car up and moving the transmission towards being fully active. Hopefully I will have achieved this before KH Sprint.
If you can make it up to Golspie (I'm assuming with Eric) it's a great weekend with an excellent social element, I'm sure you would enjoy it.

---john---