at oulton park for my first race and my car has spun a shell, has anybody got a set? that would be willing to deliver now? i would pay whatever anybody wanted,

my number is 07830234687

please please please

 

just to clarify, what engine is it, and are they std shell's

 

Bad luck Ronnie I hope you get it sorted in time.

 

Cosworth YB and STD size.
BTTT for you mate

 

Just spoken with Ron, he's sorted for shells now I believe

 

gutted your sorted i was looking forward to the hoon down in the saff , get pulled over - yes officer im on a mission from god!!!

 

PMSL at that


hope you get it sorted

 

Hope you get it all sorted Ron


Brian

 

im coming down 2 moz so if out needs bringing i can collect from u ricky or if aranged can go msd for u,

 

im going down tomorrow so will will let me know if he needs owt!

 

bottom end going back together now

 

If this has spun a shell, then the crank will be out of shape, I hope the cranks being replaced at the same time - as you will be throwing money away otherwise.

Good luck in the build (overnight motors lol )and I hope your hard work pays off for you.

 

All the best with this lads.


Cheers,
Grant

 

good luck ronnie

 

My thoughts exactly, any idea why it did in the first place Ron?

 

Proper top gear and the Beemer build stuff this!!!

Good luck in the race mush!!!!

 

Shit Ron, sorry to hear/read this pal, i hope all goes well for you buddy...

 

eek.. hope this dont end in tears mate .


good luck with the race hope it goes well!

 

Any updates on the cosworth drama, fingers crossed

 

Love it, proper Motorsport - how's it holding up ????

 

I thought you had a new engine as well

I do hope its ok

Steve

 

Ronnie had it back out for this morning,it was running! few niggles which need to be sorted i think.

They were up till 3 in the morning finishing it!!!

 

Quick whip round with a bit of paper and it'll probably last ok just for a few minutes on track, better to give it a go and risk further damage to the crank than to miss a days racing.

 

Ronnie managed to get out on track so a BIG 'well done', to the team
Don't know how the car's holding up though,

 

Definatley not.

 

Top effort to get in out again good luck

 

Plenty of racers would disagree with you, the worse it can do is cost you money, which is in lots of racers opinions far better than costing you points.

Personally I only do trackdays, so would have retired it as no points to worry about.

 

It is all about the points as this year you have to drop one round from your points score. So if Ronnie picks up points from today and he will, then it lessons the pain even if he has to miss the next round. 2 non point scoring rounds would effectively wipe out his chance at the title.

 

Any news on how he got on?

 

Isnt this the new engines first real test?Proper shit for you especially after your old engine lasted well.
Do you know the cause?

 

On our way home now, as said we got it running early hours so we managed to get out today and it did work to an extent. But the knock did return in the afternoon but tbh it was only ever a lash together and hope for the best, made the final as there was only three cars in class today so just had to cross the line, So all our work was not in vain and we picked up a third place victory and a precious 70 points. So now we have 5weeks to try to fund a bottom end build.

Ps this bottom end never had a build and is now eight years old...

 

Gutted for ron ,back bigger and better though ,at least the points were got which means it was not for nothing

 

Fair play to you for the all nighter - glad you got something out of it, and I bet your all knackered now.

 

hate to say this dude but that sounds like why it went wrong

i'd say one of them motors needs a full rebuild before a season and regular proper checks for wear and even then stuff changing or rebuilding at certain amounts of miles use to prevent a dnf. Well done though for trying

 

Gutted but like you said not all in vain.

Was good to meet you today pal.

 

Got some standard comp 0.5 pistons you can have Ron, but I know you haven't damaged yours, but that's all I've got as spares

 

The issue with a spun shell isnt the crank. It's the rod it spun in. If the bearing spins in the rod, it is fucked. It's as simple as that.

The rod either needs repaired or replaced. It will always fail again within a very short period of time

 

Shame you couldn't make this one guys was a good giggle even tho NO sleep was had lol

As soon as we had it running the air beds were inflated and we just slept in the pit garage for like 3 hours and boy it was fooking freezing when i woke up a 6. I had my entire body in the sleeping bag at one point hoping my breath would warm me up fpmsl

At the end of the day this is racing on a shoe string, a build was on the cards for this year but times are hard, if pound notes were available trust me it would have been done

You to buddy and your old man

ha ha thanks Al, If it came to it i have some standard bore 7.2 pistons with cut outs witch have been L+B what i was going to put back in my engine, but i think with my engine id be silly not to put in some forged jobbies as i will be right on there limit at the power i will be running


Defo agree there Stevie buy you can only use what you have at the time, the damage was all ready done and there was points literally sitting on the table just to be picked off, and lucky for Ron/us the hard work paid off

 

Top work Doug and the boys

Unbelivable mission that payed off for Ronnie!!!!!

Well done

 

F*ck ya then you ungreatful b*stard

Nah that's cracking mate, good result now, its not a major fix and Ronnie got the important points he needed. Big result by the sound of things