Linsay

After 5 years, 80/90'000 miles, numerous trackdays, 2 Nurburgring trips and Le Mans road trip, my good old power engineering gearbox has finally bitten the dust today at Croft, didn't she do well lol

Think the slicks helped see it off

Failure was impending after 2nd gear started to scream towards the end of the day on saturday - however, the box hung in there for another 3 sessions today


HUGE thanks to Nutter for trailoring my car there and back home, Dingy & derbyshire group for supporting me all weekend

Andy R is my new best friend lol cheers for coming out with me for my first session on slicks - top advice to, paid more attention with anticipating gear change etc helped me keep it in a straight line

Despite the large repair bill now heading my way - was the best Croft weekend ever for me

Dingy

ha ha lol.....

Cossie Helen

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Did not sound very healthy when you pulled into the pits hun !!

Sounds like it has served you well tho

Was nice to see you and have a catch up

boothy

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glad you had a good wkend, i was supposed to cum up there but bit skint at the mo,will have tomeet up soon and check out eachothers cars, cheers rob...

Linsay

yeah cheers pal lol

Good to see you guys Helen it's been on borrowed time since i was running a stake on how long it would last at National day 2006 - was quite funny, the lad who i took out was surprised that i was laughing about it! thought i should be more upset he he

boothy, mine ain't going no where for a bit now lol have to make a trip to scotland before it'll be mobile again - should be at cheshire rs owners meet at some point

topaz

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sounded really dodgy on every lap when you changed down for the top bend on the s/f straight this afternoon

Linsay

the noises were ever so strange - took dingo out first session this morning to show him and asked Oli for a diagnosis.. was pretty much as expected lol - it being fooked

Brad and Karl were reckoning on diff bearings i think

i decided that as it was pretty much written off, so might as well use it til it died as it wasn't going to fix itself lol

boothy

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atleast it can be fixed,cant wait to do a track day so much fun,goin sleep now gota be up at 6,speak soon grey rs

Andy_R

iTrader: (3)

Gearbox served you well then, im sure you'll have a fix for it before long. It was fun and rewarding on my part seing you progress so well & as quickly, nice work

Linsay

yeah it's lasted a lot longer than most.
Cheers Andy, really helped me i like taking folk like you, Dingy, Tim and Podge out - i used to be bad for not using all the track but feels a lot better letting it run wide in places sometimes. Really enjoyed my time on track

Chip

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Shame, was going well till then, like you said though, fairplay to it for lasting that long!

Lambchop

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shame you couldnt take me out

although AFTER the box was "broken" and you couldn't take me out you still managed a couple of sessions

foreigneRS

good luck in getting it fixed