Then as soon as the car came out the spray booth with only a dew days till race day the rush was on, hence lack off pics.
On went the brakes, suspension, bumper, grille, lights, re-instated the engine components, drilled the front and rear bumper for tow strap fitting, drilled the holes for the bonnet pins to be fitted, fashioned a new set of bonet lifter from out diesel and started welding and bolting the cage in and getting dash and seat re-fitting.
Was all looking very well then the person welding our roll cage in decided to weld through the petrol tank, so we had to drop the prop. OEM exhaust off and the tank and wait for a new one to turn up. Then a mear few hours later while bolting the cage in the windscreen got cracked by someone slipping with a spanner, so autoglass came out within the hour and fitted us a new one, we then had to leave the car for an hour for window to harden up. Then it went back up in the air, new fuel tank, the prop was put back on, along with our full race cat exhaust system, The holes were drilled in the car for the cut offs to run through,and the bracket to hold the extinguisher made
It left for its first race at Donnington saturday morning, and the car was worked on till midnight fitting the rest of the extinguisher, fitting the cuts and brakes bleeded, tracking and suspension was set-up, stickers were applied.
Few Donnington Pictures.
Wide open bonnet lifters
While out on track in Practice there was a bad viabration going through the car, still managed to get through so came in and tightened every bolt up on the suspension and tested it, came back fine, and also noticed car was running very hot, so we checked over the coolant etc and quickly realised the fan switch was at fault. But with no time to fix it we sent it out for Race 1.. Sent it out and was doing "ok" and suffered fuel starvation round a corner (seems quater of a tank is not enough) so the car came off the track, so it came in after completing the race VERY hot. So we let her cool off and refueled her to half tank. Wired the fan direct to the ignition, and fixed the problems we had with the electrics,coolant had sprayed out onto the fuse box (we had no cover) fixed all that and sent it back out for race two. Where was still quite far back in the pack as we were on race 1, but another car took us off the track causing abit of damage.
Came back to workshop damage was assed, and fixed. Fitted the fuse box cover, and work continued on the car painting the interior, fitting the spoiler, swapping the lights over from the ones broken in the crash. New oil filter, millers oil, new brake fluid, And soon afer it was off to Snetterton .
what spring rates did you go for?
