Glad its back running again mate,simon are you going to have the car ready for T.O.T.B or is that a big ask.

 

In the totb team and paid to enter so I bloody hope so lol

 

Lol thats great news si, looking forward to seeing her in action again.

 

Totb 2014 - after the successful test day on the Saturday
9.95 run on the sarturday

I set off to the hotel and got a needed early night leaving TFS Racing to do a couple of jobs on the car, was such a help to have their assistance all weekend.
The Sunday morning came and unfortunately the morning was spoilt by niggles on the car (cam sensor failure and the extra heat causing noise on the crank sensor, plus other little things I forget but all cost time) so lunchtime comes and goes and the cars working again, in one run to test the car where it worked I kept my foot in and the car gets very lively and weaved the whole width if the strip, the commentators reaction says it all really.

the incar

But a lot of the launch specific data from the day before testing is now no longer valid as the strip is now a lot gripper as there is more and more rubber being laid down on it.
Start getting there but the stress of it counting and the time slipping away take it's tole and I just cannot get a clean run. A couple of people point out that I could score points easy in the high speed. I think at this point I had matched a 9.95 quarter time same as the test day - there was a head wind so despite mid boost rather than low with the odd mistake it should have still been quicker.
So I line up to do a flyer and managed 180mph putting me in the points straight away and manage a faster quarter time of 9.82 on that run. Do another flyer and hold it in 5th longer this time and am happy to see joint 5th at 183.7mph and again a faster quarter of 9.75 @ 149mph which is a new PB for me, despite clipping the limiter in 3rd. Was planning to do another and try and miss the limiter in 3rd when Ian pointed out the smoke on the high speed runs is the rear tyres expanding and touching the bumper and I now have two deep groves in the rear tyres so no point risking it. I should have been running my other wheels for flyers as the drag tyres swell about two inches at 150mph lol but then I wouldn't have go the quicker quarter times. No time left to swap them so day over.
So a very pleasing weekend and I believe I came 10th overall too.
9.75@149 and the 183.7mph
incar

Roll on next year

Simon

 

Holy cow that 1st in cabin video (vid 3) looks like a handful. Some serious steering adjustments being made! Lovely job!

 

Well done simon you done amazingly well so much commitment in that vid with Steven next to you.
roll on next year

 

I didn't realise that the "wander" was as violent as it looks in the clip I took, when you watch the in-car footage it's quite a bugger to straighten

 

I had a go at drifting

 

Well done Simon, great effort and certainly more to come from the car and yourself when you've had a bit more seat time.

 

Well done Simon. That was an awesome recovery.

 

Awesome! Needs a bit more tape on that passage window though

 

Knew you couldn't resist

 

I watched most of your runs simon and i was very impressed with the way you managed to control the car when it tried to twist and snake out of position.

That car has some serious grunt matey and i take my hat off too you for doing as well as you did trying to tame that beast,well done mate it was a great day.

 

Another one Simon I found on my phone......

 

Thanks Glen

 

Thanks. That run was when I had crank sensor issues and it stalled for no issue and was well down on power and took a while to work out what was going on.

 

I have decided its time I tried something other than straight line stuff with the car, I need to check certain things are upto it like radiator and inter coolers but need to do some jobs before I can even try a trackday in it and also some jobs to enable me to do msa regulated stuff.
I have spent a bit more time than I expected over the past few weeks doing little jobs on the car that look like they shouldn't take long to do but take far longer than expected. Some have been on the list to do for ages and some are required to get to msa regs.

Kill switch and fire pulls added


Pulls added to centre panel also


Nozzles for fire ext added to bulkhead


Msa approved and in date seat and harnesses added


The fibreglass boot lid has never been right since the paint shop painted it the wrong colour and put it in the oven and warped it. So most unlike me I have added a little weight to the car... This has allowed my current budget of zero to be spent on aero to be used, no fancy wind tunnel or even a trip to b&q required


Mental note to self - remove the totb stickers ASAP after totb.


Simon

 

Just a tip Simon, from experience of club racing mine; (I met you at Autosport this year, if you remember. I was with Darren). I had extinguisher nozzles in the bulkhead as yours are, but got pulled up on it because of the coverage. I ended up putting a triangular bracket on the shock tower and pointing one at the throttle body area, on a mere four pot of course It passed then.

Not really sure how much difference it would make in reality, but it might save you a headache in the paddock on race day.

 

Good tip I was planning on putting mine on the bulkhead... Not that I'm ready for racing yet .

 

Thanks for heads up. Sounds like an over zealous scruitineer? But perhaps he is right. Will keep a length of ext hose in the spares box just in case

 

Dropped the car off for day visit at Tfs Racing on wednesday for fitment of my track brakes, antiroll bars and an alignment for going around bends



I managed to get some time on it myself and wired in a few bits and wired the lights and wipers

 

Looks mental as always dude. Will be awsome on track.

 

thanks

 

nice one Simon..........

million dollar question though - are you going to be quicker on track than in your 205 weapon

 

Only if it doesnt kill me first

 

Do you find the bonnet raisers help reduce under bonnet temps?

I was considering these myself.

 

Not measured temperature in engine bay but can say that the fibreglass bonnet lifts in the middle from around 130mph up. So I can see the engine from the drivers seat. When it was taped shut for the 183mph run it sucked in wards.

 

Rain light added


Took the car out for a bit of testing yesterday afternoon at Brandshatch.


Main reason was to test cooling of oil, water and a few other bits. Unfortunately something I hadn't considered happened. A lightly more aggressive downshift than I intended caused the Cambelt to jump two teeth. Only had time to indentify that as the issue and not checked for further damage yet.

Simon

 

Ouch. Hope it's not clipped a valve mate.

 

Steve @ Rolland Allsop machined the valve pockets on the mahle pistons slightly bigger as it was a concern. So hopefully not.