i would but dnt no how to

 

how do i do it

 

Personally on a trackday, I only ever drive Combe at 8/10ths and always leave something in reserve.

Put me on track at Bedford, and I'll happily push the limits as I know my chances of damaging the car are minimal, but do the same at Combe and there's a fair chance of writing the car off...

 

As Above.

 

thanks el cuntos

please bear in mind that i have NEVER put a car on its roof!

cheers mate, lost a stone in the last 15 weeks, and managed to keep it off so far


you know it

 

Thought you looked a bit thin mate, I thought you may have aids again, was hard enough to get rid of last time, wasn't it

 

dont you fooking start ade

 

 

pretty sensible at combe...tbh i found backing off into the chicanes actually put in a quicker lap.

There were a lot of quick cars on the straights that were pants in the bends...it's annoying cos the bends is the only thing i can do, and i'd catch something, they were just about to move out the way, and then they would drive past on the striaghts...

Pembray all the way

 

I have to say I may have looked a little strange at you Saturday... I thought.. im sure I recognise this thin like figure walking towards me!

Have to catch up properly next time I was flapping trying to get Hev out in a car.

Keep up the skinnyness

 

yea i have been driving around it and been driven round it for the last 10 years? wats your point? think there is alot of hype around certain cars that make lots of noise, but get the stop watch out and the times speak for them self, i know its only a track day and not a race but would like to see them getting pushed around bends too. imo

 

Bit of a long shot but did anyone get any pictures of my mrs clio?
Black clio 172 phase 2, reg AY02OVL

 

Got some footage

 

cool

PM sent

 

Just because a car is an XR2, why is it a shitter? 300bhp is fine in FWD

The Gooon has 300bhp and thats an Austin, but ita not slow around combe and we did do some good laps in it

 

you've had a fukking good go though!

 

hmm, not quite as good as you either!

do you remember one new years eve + your old mk6 escort + trying to drive like colin mcray + a grass verge???

well, it = car on roof

volcomestone, did you get any footage of the grey puma lol??

if so id love to see it

 

yes i do...

i also remember a mk4, a wet crossroads and the phrase
'reckon i could have this at 45'

 

PMSL.....i remember images of the mk6 spinning around on its roof in the middle of the road with phil peering out

 

i didnt see you in the car

and it stayed on 2 wheels, what more do you want lol

 

Between camp and avon rise I can see 135-140. Having watched from quarry for nearly 28 years I have seen various marques stuff it into the barrier at quarry because of leaving it too late to brake, the back gets light, locks the rear wheels - you're a passenger. Mark 1 Lotus Cortinas, Mark 2 Jags, many cars from the pre 65 saloon car championship, all fairly heavy cars. The thing with cars like mine is you have phenomenal acceleration, pretty good braking, but once the speed has been scrubbed off to get over avon rise you're back on the throttle to speed up to the entrance to quarry. Large turbo - you're not on full boost at this point - gives the impression you're 'not on it', well that's my experience.

 

bloody hell Ade, you're older than you look!

lol
good to chat to ya again at the weekend!

hope that turbo turns up soon, so you can join the 200mph club!

 

Good to see you too mate. Yep, getting old pal, remember driving Coombe long before the chicanes, was a very quick circuit in those days, in my old Lotus Cortina, was very hairy

 

no you were behind me

I only got one run cos my step dad undid the camera mount and lost the bolt.

there's someon e white xr2i being let past, then repast.

 

did anyone get any pictures of my puma...no one took any and wouldn't mind a few with the new livery.

uploading vid now chip...on 2%...welcome to the contryside

puma is seriously slow in the video...i've been offering up tonight, the inlet tracks are too short. And i looked at the map, and i could of just raised the limit because we didn't change anything at wot

 

What colour is it?

 

white and green...see sig.

here is link chip

 

Ah yes, got a couple - will load them up later

 

oh yeah harry, while i got you on here, did you get the text with my new number?? you were going to call about carbon bits as we got cut off last time. What time you off for lunch or finish work?? I can call you if you prefer as i get 5000 mins on phone now....

 

lunch at 1. Yea we need to sort something....doing a little bit of engine dev atm, so it wont be for a little bit. I need to get hold of a focus headlight

 

Cool, thanks

In case you were wondering why she was so slow on the outlap she had a chronic misfire, think the plugs had fouled up in the queue, it litteraly just misfired nonstop the whole first lap, we thought we were going to have to come in but then luckily it cleared as she pulled onto the main straight and just went intermittant after that.
We didnt realise your car was slow (looks like it should be 300bhp, didnt realise it was group n and hence standard engine) so she kept pulling over to the left to let you past but obviously you didnt have enough go to get by, so eventually she braked to let you and the white fiesta past and then just followed you around for the rest of the session.
Was good fun for her having a relatively even car to be out against, just a real pain she had an annoying on/off misfire, typically it hadnt done it once on the 80 mile journey to the track or on the way back, just while we were there, lol

Got a new coilpack now and will be the changing the plugs, hopefully that will sort it and next time she wont look like she is trying one minute and then not the next!

Fantastic getting nearly the whole session on video like that though, thanks very much for sharing

 

no worries...as long as she enjoyed it. I was only out to get back into driving and shakedown the car, so i wasn't to worried.

worryingly it took all day for me to get back into driving. Havn't done it in 6 months. End of the day was much better...did a 1.26 at the end of the day. started out on a 1.33. Ganna keep getting in the car now.

i felt road cars kept getting hot on the longer sessions and were dropping power in later laps. It's surprising how much more performance is required just to keep peak.

I think road cars really suffered on road tyres.

 

We were on a048 tyres which dont go off too badly, but they are totally worn out now (below legal for road use), and you do notice a lot of dropoff when they get that low.

The morning was great, just a shame that the afternoon was all queue and no tracktime!

1.26 sounds pretty reasonable for the power that you have. Im only a couple of seconds quicker than that in my clio with 160 or so bhp and I should think mine is lighter (not the one in this video which has leather and aircon etc, I mean my blue mk1 one)

 

sounds about right...just developing a new engine now with the engine builder next door. Tarmac rally tyres i had were strange cos they went to complete soft mush on the surface but once cleaned on the road he tread's hardly disappeared.

Problem is is that when you can out turn and brake other stuff, it just pulls away on the straight.

Looking just to put a small supercharger for track work on...seems feesable.

 

A little centrifugal charger would work well with standard compression, expensive though.

 

If we could all predict what was going to happen, we'd not bother spending time testing cars before race meetings.

 

What tyres did you run volcom btw and at what pressures?

 

We didn't get any clear runs as such, I timed a 1:19 with Ratty at the wheel, that was running on Dunlop DGZ03s on the maestro
I was out with the Blue XR2, straight line power seemed quite simlar but managed to pull 6 car lengths between chicaines, over too him out of bobbies if I remember right.
Gooon is pretty good in the corners and not bad in a straight line for a 1986 maestro

 

1:19 is a very good laptime.

Puts you only 2 seconds off the pace of Martin and Sketch in fact IIRC

Do you have a video of that? Not saying I dont believe you, but just would be interesting to watch and even to verify the timing thats all

Thats the target time I have set my mrs for getting round in my yellow clio when its done, so I know its possible from a FWD trackday (as opposed to race) car or I wouldnt be aiming for it myself.

 

Hankook soft tarmac rally slicks. 1.8 bar cold. Goto 2 and a smidge warm