Friday, August 29, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Silverstone summary
Summary for today:
Pole position
Both brand new discs cracked !
Reverted to spares
Race win
Fastest lap (whilst hardly using brakes)
New lap record
Quick advert for the new drivers forum
http://rgb-racing.org.uk
Pole position
Both brand new discs cracked !
Reverted to spares
Race win
Fastest lap (whilst hardly using brakes)
New lap record
Quick advert for the new drivers forum
http://rgb-racing.org.uk
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Suspension and Brake refit prior to Silverstone
As of last night the car is back together and almost ready to roll for the Silverstone round this coming Saturday.
Replacement Front Discs
The discs finally arrived from HiSpec after lots and lots of chasing but to give them their credit, they are a perfect fit. Here you can see the new front disc reattached to the near side front wheels where we had the failure at Donington.
Here you can see the comparison between the old front and new front discs, as I have chosen to run both fronts on the new discs to keep them even.
The original disc from the offside will become the spare to sit along side the spare rear disc we already have which we used temporarily on the front.
Crack Testing of Suspension
The result of the crack testing was that we saw some small cracks in both of the top wishbones on the near side suspensions. I took these over to Steve at Concept Designs and he has re-Tig welded these points. In fact once the plating had been removed, he could not see any cracks in the welds themselves so it looks like it was just plating deep. Anyway he has added another weld on top to be certain and these are now back on the car.
Last night I refitted these suspension back on the car. All we have to do before our Friday evening run over to Silverstone is to check the geometry and add some fuel.
Replacement Front Discs
The discs finally arrived from HiSpec after lots and lots of chasing but to give them their credit, they are a perfect fit. Here you can see the new front disc reattached to the near side front wheels where we had the failure at Donington.
Here you can see the comparison between the old front and new front discs, as I have chosen to run both fronts on the new discs to keep them even.
The original disc from the offside will become the spare to sit along side the spare rear disc we already have which we used temporarily on the front.Crack Testing of Suspension
The result of the crack testing was that we saw some small cracks in both of the top wishbones on the near side suspensions. I took these over to Steve at Concept Designs and he has re-Tig welded these points. In fact once the plating had been removed, he could not see any cracks in the welds themselves so it looks like it was just plating deep. Anyway he has added another weld on top to be certain and these are now back on the car.
Last night I refitted these suspension back on the car. All we have to do before our Friday evening run over to Silverstone is to check the geometry and add some fuel.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Crack Testing
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the nearside rear.
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the offside rear.
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the nearside front.
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the offside front.
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| Crack Testing - Near Side Rear |
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the offside rear.
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| Crack Testing - Off Side Rear |
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the nearside front.
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| Crack Testing - near side front |
Click on the image below to see the crack testing images for the offside front.
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| Crack Testing - Off side front |
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
4 wheels back on my wagon!
Cool drifting video here - its from Silverstone where we race next. I enjoy sliding sideways a lot but I am not sure I can get the BDN quite this sideways. Worth a try maybe! Great editing.
DRIFT SILVERSTONE 2008 HD from Clashproduction on Vimeo.
Quick update on the racing front. Last night we refitted the rear suspension. Well when I say we, I actually mean John did. Paul and I just stood around talking about what to do next year! So the car is now back in running order. We are still waiting for the new discs from HiSpec so it wouldn't be at full speed but if we completely ran out of time it would be serviceable. They are supposed to be complete by now but not sure when we should expect them. This disc replacement is a very quick job so no worried there. Next on the list is a crack test, we have all of the chemicals needed, now we just need to knowledge!
DRIFT SILVERSTONE 2008 HD from Clashproduction on Vimeo.
Quick update on the racing front. Last night we refitted the rear suspension. Well when I say we, I actually mean John did. Paul and I just stood around talking about what to do next year! So the car is now back in running order. We are still waiting for the new discs from HiSpec so it wouldn't be at full speed but if we completely ran out of time it would be serviceable. They are supposed to be complete by now but not sure when we should expect them. This disc replacement is a very quick job so no worried there. Next on the list is a crack test, we have all of the chemicals needed, now we just need to knowledge!
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