Must admit in the last two years i have turned up at my first event with a car finished the night before with no testing and a standard suspension set up, with adjustable everything, jumped in it and got on with it, it is unfortunately the nature of things when doing motorsport on a limited budget.

 

amen to that

6hrs one way : Your monaing to the wrong person there! It took us about 12hrs one way to get to Snet. Fee drove the Navara, I drove a stripped out Impreza. Not Nice.

Bite the bullit, get on with it

Also means you'll have experience on KH for next time (may save money as you wont have have to plan a test day there).

Loads of people in Club drive the circuit for the first time on the day of the event.

 

If youve never even driven the car before I would go and do "your shake down/testing" at a track day and then go and compete at Brands feeling confident you know the car and the track

Just out of curiosuty, I use to race blades in "Powerbike" and I have done track days at Oulton about 20 times and a couple of race meetings as well, all about 5 years ago, now that I am old I have an 06 Spec C running 420bhp and will soon have 18" wheels with AP 355mm brakes, Whiteline handling kit and the likes.........(standard suspension)

Never been near a track in a car, what kinda times would you be hoping for as a "novice" around Oulton at a track day?

Lee.

 

Here we go again.

 

No, Here YOU go again

 

your braver men than me then.

i forgot your scotland soz cant really apply travel comment to your situation

 

a man after my own mind, car has cost an absolute fortune to build, im going testing and working towards obtaining a really good base setup before brands and work at scoring good points at last 3 rounds. i want to push at time attack not shake the car down. decision has been made so all the best at knockhill guys, see you at brands

well i ran that nail ice driver 250 bhp around 230 flb standard everything and full weight and that saw me a 1.44 flat, the standard spec c suspension is pretty similar to jdm sti unless you got an ra or ra-r where you get the pink shocks and all the trick bits, so thats the weak point if you like, having never driven a time?? but its hard to say as everyone is different, you could be a natural or you could be ****, hard to say get it out and see

 

To be honest I was at Oulton watching your times because I would like a go one day, but the trackdays are full circuit so I am not sure how much a 1:44 would be on a full circuit?

Good luck fella.

Lee.

 

Christ how long as this build been going on,,
Are scoobyclinic giving you some compo//
I would be fuming after this time,,
Before you know it , its another season gone bye

 

I'm not sure the finger of blame can be pointed at the clinic. You only have to read the thread to see how many times Matt has changed his mind.

Shame you don't want to make it up to scotland Matt - it is a fantastic circuit and probablyt the only chance in the year to make that trip worthwhile. For me it is 8 hours each way - and makes a cracking weekend both on and off track

 

bout 2 min 3 secs

i think matt did very well considering what car he had to drive

 

cheers dude, what you up to next thursday fancy coming to snetterton for a shakedown?
think my guess of a 1:55 on the track day(full circuit) would be about right then

 

Matt - Is your space on the Sat still available?

 

love too matt but i only have my cup car to drive at the moment and it will not be quite ready for thursday. good luck

 

That's the thing that I understand the least!
The car has been built to be used....and for the main part at the moment, to be used in Time Attack
But yet you've spent all the money on it and now aren't using it for it's purpose
Just get on with it!

 

Sounds like jealously to me

Unless you know the facts dunc ?

All this bull about time attack being diffrent than track days and this is this and all the other bull
Didn't a first time out one hit wonder cpr car beat you with a 1.32 in club challenge dunc its about the car and secondly the driver . Maybe thats your problem

 

How can that possibly read as jealousy ?

Just pointing out the many changes of mind that Matt has had during the build have probably caused a lot of unnecessary extra work/re-work/cost.

As for Oulton times - I really don't care what other people did apart from cheering Scott and Fee on in Club. I know the issues with my car slowed it down on the day but hey if you want to take pops at me then great - feast yourself.

 

That green CPR evo is hardly a real Club car either LOL

If it was doing the full series it would be in the Club Pro/Pro group.

 

I can see both sides here.

My Knockhill experience in 2008 was fitting a newly built engine in the early hours of the morning before travelling up. Used the journey upto Glasgow with the family to run the engine in at actuator pressure, dropped the oil and kids off on arrival and replaced with good stuff (oil that is) then went onto complete around 5laps on the practice day as didn't get there till around 4pm. The journey back to Glasgow that evening saw me mapping in some boost and a 6k rev limit due to the new engine.
Race day and managed consistent 58 second laps from the off and a best of 58.1 in the final

This year I could've run at Knockhill but chose not to.
he car has had no testing and I have too much work invested in it for something to go wrong due to an oversight or similar, a bit like Matt's case.
Brands will be the first competitive outing for the car but this means that it will be nailed for for the event with plenty of testing being carried out before hand

Good luck Matt, I'm sure the first time you get behind the wheel it'll be worth it

 

Well said Mocom.

I can understand where Matt is coming from.

Enjoy it Matt when you get it back.

 

[QUOTE=shawy1976;9399264]Sounds like jealously to me

Unless you know the facts dunc ?


thank you hows your motor comin along now mate?

3 people know why this build is not ready till brands me kev and adam. if you want FACTS you need to ask them or me. its one of those things at the end of the day and it has now been resolved

some people do like to meddle

 

cheers guys, i really did think more people would be more supportive towards my choice but hey ya cant please everyone, the result at brands will be a far more realistic reflection of the car and my driving, i dont believe knockhill would have benefitted me at all, the costs and nill seat time and a totally new track iv not done a lap of would have equated to a very expensive long shakedown, i would rather get the car and myself running to full capacity get rid of any gremlins and be able to the absolute most out of every session not traveling miles and miles for what effectivly would be test and setup runs, its not viable hence why i chose against going.
good luck to all and andy harvey and the guys this weekend

 

^^^^^ & dont forget its supposed to be fun wait till brands and have a great day

 

What is duncs class ?

i probably shouldnt have written what i did but hey (stella helped )

Every project on this site there seems to be so much bitching and maybe jealousy ( the reason i didnt put mine on here )

I,m sorry for having a pop dunc but this bull**it negativity all the time on these projects is boring .


Good luck utaka at brands i should hopefully be there myself to kick yours and duncs ar*e or in real world get mine kicked

Well done to fiona adam a great result today i,m still trying to get my misses to pass her test never mind win a time attack event great win today with a quick time .

 

[QUOTE=utaka;9399572]Very slowly The engine should be finished by the end of the week then i can design all the bits around it

 

hurry up then mate,if wanna get yours out for brands. thought you had given up the ghost or summin.

 

I know Shawy....get with it!

BTW...i should getting my car back this week.

 

Yawn

 

Now I have to work out how the hell to get my Impreza to do a 54s lap round KH. hmmmmm LOL

Her time would have been good enough for 1st in 2009 too.

 

I am trying pete but its out of my hands

Glad to here yours is nearly ready it will be intresting to see your turbo results