The Racetractor. The End.

[Piggy]

Good effort Shame you didn't clock the cooling issues before starting off, wasted a bit of your time and therefore $$
Impressed with the 125 man, must have been clenching hard when you have to brake

Did you get the starter solenoid sorted?

Tbh, I am pretty happy. Was a good development day tbh. Got lots of time on track, managed to find the weak points and will be moving forward nicely  

Shame we didnt get to tussle a little more!

I was lifting first a little to be honest. Never got my chance to get into a flow with left foot braking as my gears were getting worse at high speed...turns out I had a loss of gear oil.

Nah, going on holiday tomorrow morning in the 206... next sat will do the starter, cv joint and gearbox seal

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Piggy did notice you rad does look very thin... Anyway nice to see it in person and fair play 125 down the straight is good I get 120 ish... So quicker than ours. Our oil got to around 130 max we need to fit a oil cooler. Water temps were fine but nice to see it out there.

yeah but I kind of expected that top speed... but if I was following you elsewhere you would have annihilated me! you were rapid!

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I've said it before in here, the effort that goes into this car is unreal, there's not many people who go to the same level of detail in so many areas!!

Had a great (even if I could do with a new spine and some new ear drums...) drive down yesterday, James gave it some abuse on track, it highlighted a few problems that needed to be sorted, but the chassis and engine were performing brilliantly - just need to work on the cooling system, with the grill removed, things improved, which is a good sign, we're not limited by how much heat can be moved in the system, rather removing it once it's in the system! I think some shrouds to help force the air through the radiator would help, naturally having a knob off intercooler in the way doesn't help matters! Also an oil cooler going back on will help hugely to reduce the load on the cooling system.

Turbo control working great, few tweaks needed here and there, but working as intended and holding good exhaust and inlet pressure - response is pretty unreal, turbo is ready to go again after every gearchange, no hanging about!

Glad all the effort has paid off - it's definitely getting there!

thanks man. we are all but there tbh!

If I can nail the cooling and get it a tad lighter its done. I can really enjoy it then

thanks to you and Tom as I said yesterday...coulda hugged you both really, big success in my mind for me. Been on days with dedicated track cars of much greater value and had less time on track and more time fixing the bloody thing!

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bloody van