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phillipm

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Post #76
Yeah, you can pay me

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Posted 26th Mar 2009 at 05:46
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Post #77
damn, I wanted some snapon....

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Posted 26th Mar 2009 at 12:54
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Post #78
Well, I've just spent 4 hours getting a bloody rollpin out of a driveshaft, kinda put paid to having it ready for the weekend.

f*cking car.

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Posted 27th Mar 2009 at 04:44
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Made it to Waterbeach this weekend for a bit of fun, unfortunately with a sporadic engine cut out problem which I suspect is the alternator given the battery voltage is dropping.
That and the melted alternator terminal...

Got a few good runs in though and shook the revised front suspension down - spent last week realigning it, new springs, alter the dampers and changed the bumpstops and torsion bar rates, the front is about spot on now, in fact we went over 2 foot by 2 foot square trenches designed to slow tanks down without being able to feel it through the car, so that's working well.
The rear is on the soft side so we're just waiting for some new springs now, it's fine whilst in the forests or along most of the bumpy stuff, but it slams the rear skid plate onto the floor on the bigger jumps, always knew it wanted harder rear springs but now we know how much to go with, so the suspension is finally working at last. Smile

She still runs a bit too warm even with the new scoop, so the exhaust manifold is coming off to be given an internal and external ceramic powdercoat, as it's the heat building up around the engine causing problems rather than the water/oil temp, it was damned warm weather though, which didn't help - 21* and blue skies, better than rain but wasn't helping the engine!

Ended up having to shortshift and leave it in third in the tight stuff and letting it haul itself out to keep the exhaust temperatures down (and whoever says rotaries have no torque wants to come and sit in this thing, when it pulls itself from axle deep, out of soil full of clay, in a forest, at 2krpm in 3rd...)

Other than that she's doing well at last, it might actually do a full event next month! LOL


Got to try and sort a bit more silencing though, 105db driveby and 104 static where everyone else was 104 static and ~90db driveby....whooops LOL

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Posted 27th Apr 2009 at 17:43
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Post #80
Pictures of our car always seem to be when it's broken, anyone would think it did it often LOL Whistle





Doh

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Posted 27th Apr 2009 at 18:12
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Post #81
Ah well, Rome wasn't built in a day...

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Posted 28th Apr 2009 at 04:26
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Post #82
I could've built Rome in the time spent on this thing LOL

At least it's easy work to sort this time around!

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Posted 28th Apr 2009 at 04:28
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2nd pic looks like, "erm, wonder if it'll work if I poke this...."

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Posted 28th Apr 2009 at 04:50
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Post #84
That was me fishing the remains of the melted alternator post out LOL

The little kid escaped from his hamster wheel, that was the problem Razz

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Posted 28th Apr 2009 at 05:15
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Right, managed to get hold of some zirconium ceramic blanket that they use to line the furnaces at Corus - the stuff is an inch thick, and shall be wrapping the exhaust with it to try get even more heat out of the engine bay.
If this doesn't sort it, nothing will, you can put a blowtorch at one side of it and your hand on the other and just about gets lukewarm...

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Posted 6th May 2009 at 01:14
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And it now boasts a pair of ducts picking up the boundary airflow from the doors to try to relieve the heat from the ex. manifold.

Testing tommorow!

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Posted 9th May 2009 at 03:45
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Post #87
Sorted the brakes out, stripped and regreased all the suspension arms/bushes, and the heat problem is finally solved.

Adjusted the clutch slightly as it was slipping after a gearchange and then 2 minutes down the test track, into 4th gear, BANG.

It's snapped the input shaft clean off the gearbox we think Sad

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Posted 16th Nov 2009 at 15:49
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Right, new gearbox for

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Posted 16th Nov 2009 at 15:49
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Post #89
Well, the oil's still getting a touch warm, but she finished an event at last! Big grin























And she's got a shiny trophy with 1st in class on to prove it Cheers

And the best thing is, sort the oil temperature out next weekend and there's a lot more to come yet, it hasn't even got an LSD in it at the moment, it's 1-wheel-drive on the slippy stuff LOL

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 04:15
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phillipm wrote:
And she's got a shiny trophy with 1st in class on to prove it Cheers


Thumbs up Well Done Thumbs up

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 05:50
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Post #91
I think we got the highest jump too but waiting for them to confirm it, something like 25ft in the air and 75ft long.

It's nice to actually finish an event after all the work that's gone into it, the trophy is a bonus! LOL

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 18:07
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Post #92
Couple of pictures from walking the course:














































I've missed out all the tight twisty stuff in the bottom of the valley 'cause it was so slippy I was more concerned about not falling flat on my arse than taking pictures!

No pictures of cars I'm afraid, I was rather busy when the cars were going around.
Can't think why...


The photo's of the downhill gravel bits are where I've turned around for a picture - it was bloody nearly all uphill bar the forest!

And that big field you can see at the end of the gravel track goes over the hill - you go all the way around that - harder than it sounds, it was a 45* degree slope to slither across on the other side - and come back out the other side of the paddock you can see and down the hill into the slippery shit in bottom of the valley for a couple of miles.



Actually remembered to take my camera with me on the walk-around for once!
Trying to go around on knackered old push-bikes the day before was a bad idea though...LOL

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 20:07
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Going up, next stop, 3rd floor...

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 20:24
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And back down again a few seconds later....

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Posted 25th May 2009 at 20:30
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looks good! Congrats on the trophy Big grin

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Posted 27th May 2009 at 22:57
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She wants the back dampers valving a touch harder to suit the new spring rate - and I think a limited slip diff. to stop it being 1 wheel drive on the wet grass might help somewhat too - but she she's good enough to make you laugh in the cockpit:



I haven't got any video of it on the faster gravel or forest bits yet, hoping someone sends some this weekend.

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Posted 16th Nov 2009 at 15:50
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There's some video from the previous round at the same place on Motors TV tonight at about 2:30-ish.

No idea if it's worth watching from a TV perspective as they're limited to all-terrain tyres rather than proper off-road Fedimar/Sahara's, but if anyone's still up and bored...

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Posted 30th May 2009 at 18:03
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ooooh hello mr ur here to aye Razz

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Posted 30th May 2009 at 18:27
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I told you, I'm everywhere LOL

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Posted 30th May 2009 at 18:29
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lol yeah just reading the dimma charger topic :O wow:O

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Posted 30th May 2009 at 18:42

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