thanks John.. engine build is accumilating more cost than I thought so going with an open diff in new box as I have a choice of 3 of them.. plated I also have likely to be a bit to harsh for my 99.9999% road use.

Is that like a Guesstimap???

Simon

 

John, yes I know your comments were tongue in cheek, but sadly these days we do have little flexibility as there's so much demand for track time.

I'd probably just come up to Golspie on the Sunday morning, so will miss out on the social element, but I am planning to make it down to both Scooby Shoot Out and TOTB this year.

You still have your credit for KH to use from last year, so any of our events that suit, just let me know and I'll get it sorted.

Fully active transmission - hope that doesn't mean an auto box ?

Cheers

John

 

Simon:
IMho (ie experience) don't fit a plated front in the car.
Graham.

 

Thanks

partially due to your recent findings I won't be fitting a plated..

Simon

 

Excuse me, you can't say that on here I mean do your sprints have "superbattles"

 

He He
Must have a word with championship co-ordinator about naming convensions for next year

 

Off to Doune tomorrow and Sunday to have a SuperBattle with a tree lined Hillclimb

---john---

 

Get you camera out, we want to see what your up to.

 

Would you like me to take some snaps of the car too ?

 

Great weekend at Doune, as per Kames. Car is going great, track was wet/changable all weekend but third practise Saturday saw a 48.88 (Record is 48.28) fantastic time considering it was wet. Roll on "June Doune" and some dry tarmac.
Again spent my practise runs playing with the settings on the Diff controller, so the practise times were a bit inconsistant as a result.


Saturday saw a 49.65 in timed runs, with David Sleigh in his Evo pushing hard and providing the competition. Donald McCaskill was back out in his Evo V after washing off the cobwebs at Golspie two weeks ago, he struggled to find pace all weekend struggling with understeer in the wet conditions (he has a plated front Diff...... that seems to ring a bell Eh Graham ? )
Scott Sherriden in the third Mitsubishi was debuting at Doune and creditably nipped his times down all weekend in poor conditions to be learning such a scary place.

Results were as follows:

Evo II 2.0 SCOTT SHERIDAN 57.07
Opal Manta 2.0 JOHN RAMSAY 63.91
Rover 220T 2.0 MIKE HUNTER 58.14
Sunbeam Ti TOM WILSON 58.84
Evo III 2.0 DAVID SLEIGH 50.52
Evo V 2.3 DONALD McCASKILL 53.63
Impreza 2.5 JOHN STEVENSON 49.65

Continued on Sunday playing with setup, I had a little brain fade during third practise hitting a kerb with the car locked up under braking, Killed the HKS Strup top mount and bent the Strut Turret, did it during third practise so fortunately had lunch break to try to bodge. The car looked as if it had been setup for oval racing. Huge amount of camber on the 'damaged' corner and was toeing so much a blind man could see it. With the help of some friends and a big hammer the car was cobbled together though obviously very squint. Allignment was done by eye, the car turned out very tail happy on 1st timed run (read 4rth practise for me), but at least gave an indicator of what could be expected. Managed a 49.08, which was better than I could have hoped in all honesty.
Second timed run saw the added complication of a car having rolled and depositing some fluids on an already wet track and generally everyone ended up slower.
David had a couple of little brushes with the barriers on his first timed run, pushing the car hard in the dodgy conditions. Ultimately the field ended similar to Sat.

Evo II 2.0 SCOTT SHERIDAN 54.33
Opal Manta 2.0 JOHN RAMSAY 62.60
Rover 220T 2.0 MIKE HUNTER 57.24
Sunbeam Ti TOM WILSON 57.63
Evo III 2.0 DAVID SLEIGH 50.47
Evo V 2.3 DONALD McCASKILL 52.74
Impeza 2.5 JOHN STEVENSON 49.08
Sunbeam Ti JIMMY CROW 57.83

Also ended up with Fastest Road car both days holding off the Locaterfields, helped by the slippy conditions.

---john---

 

 

Brilliant!
Really makes you wonder about alignment to the last 5 minutes doesn't it?

David at API has driven the Sti tiday in anger, and finds the car ok on the front diff!
Also feels the car to be well down on the 380 of 2 years ago...

Still think i will have the diff out sod it; at least back to the old handling.

How did Geoff do John?

ps: Got the cheque thanks.

 

Hi Graham, no disrespect to David but there is a word of difference driving a car quickly down a road and throwing it at a corner full chat.
Geoff was going well. He was suggesting I might want to come down to play with you and some of your chums

Just looked at the results closer and was only beaten by a handfull of single seaters both days.

Full results here:

http://www.dounehillclimb.com/Results/April07/times.pdf

 

Geoff was in the wrong class?

Wish you would pop down here into the class, would be very interesting.
Graham.

 

 

Congrats John.

Good to see the car going strong.
Still not managed to get a look at her in the flesh.

I will keep my eye out for the dates in June at Doune and try to nip accross and see what I'm aiming to beat (lol)

Keep up the good work

Regards

Jamie

 

Ouch!
Graham

 

Jamie, be good to meet you, June Doune is 16-17th

---john---

 

Superb results John!

Look forward to seeing you up at Alford, Fintray and possibly Golspie if you are going to those events.

John

 

Jamie, congratulations on the baby, you are just about to find out how much time you don't have anymore.

It ain't this one you'll have to beat, it's the project in the Garage

 

I'll be at Golspie, need to celebrate Mhairi's birth , Alford too. Fintry is under discusion currently.

---john---

 

Video of JohnSt at Doune - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Video ( and commentary ) courtesy of The Squirrel.

 

Animal.
Bling dash on it's way to you John.
Graham

 

Woof woof, Gucci bit received, many thanks Graham

Geoff is right, treating the Team Principle to a weekend in Perthshire in June is just what is needed for you !!!!

 

Too many going too fast for me down here already!
Just been to a hillclimb committee meeting tonight, and the stories of Doune sound scarey for a soft Brummie.

Doing the Welsh new hillclimb now, but that sounds a bit hard too.
Graham.

 

Thought i'd stick my head in for a quick update with whats happening with myself. Scoobies taking its time as i seem to have none at the moment. Should have the shell finished this summer ready to drop the engine in later on in the year. Starting to wonder why i thought it was a good idea in the first place!

However, after having a stilletto take up the garage for 18 years, i convinced the old man to pull his finger out if i give him a hand to finish off the body work and put it back together so should be flying up the hills in a couple of months! Where there's a means, there's a way. Although i dont think i'll be breaking any records ....good to get some experience in though!

Will be keeping an eye on you John to see how the Neetronics gets on. Mines still in the box... Whens the next meet up my way? Back in the UK for good in a couple of weeks due to a change in career so should be at most events from now on. Would be good to finally meet the people behind the posts.

Graham, drink a couple of cans of red bull and put the rest in the tank. You'll be back up there in no time. Would be nice to see the 911 out though..

 

I thought you had gone to the moon!
911 on the road again now, and thinking of doing the Loton Park Classic meeting in it for ole' times sake.

Keep at it!

 

Doug, Fintray 4-5th May. I might manage to be there on Sat (Family commitments) but deffo won't be there Sunday.

---john---

 

John,

Have you managed to sort out your geometry problem?

 

Is Fintray not the follwing weekend John???