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Bye bye Sundance Kid

Looks fine to me, just cover it in black hammerite and noone'll know

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Bye bye Sundance Kid

Tonight was full of win.

First up, I fitted some rubber boots to the killswitch to make sure there wasn't a (repeat) chance of me accidentally shorting the terminals to earth (again) with some kind of keys (that's what happened) or similar event.

Safe.



Next up, time to secure the battery so it's not flying around as it is at the moment. I'm not up for any of this £30 aluminium cage nonsense, we can do better than that. Four little tie-down loops from eBay, about £6 for the lot. M6 bolts through, nyloc's below.



Varley recommend some closed-cell foam to stop harsh vibration, luckily have some of that from the packaging my toolbox came in. Cut to size.



Finally, fit the battery with some loading straps. Practically zero weight, solidly held and nothing too permanent. Nice.



And then all wired up with rubber boots so nothing shorts.



I also realised I had a brand new non-aircon heater matrix in the old heater unit, so if anyone wants that I'm open to offers.



A mate had a spare pair of working calipers, so I've put those on the rear for now while I refurb mine properly. Took the car out for a spin, and after a bit of getting used to the pedal, and a bit of fiddling with the bias valve, I can unsurprisingly declare: these brakes are truly awesome. I got the pads up to temperature a few times with some heavy braking, and they really are incredibly good. No massive surprise there, but it's good to know they do what they're meant to.

Bring on Rockingham on the 26th

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no idea what you're talking about?

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Bye bye Sundance Kid

What time will you be there 'til Owain?

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

I wont be able to get out of work, but I live 6 miles away from Rockingham circuit. I can be there for about 5 ish so was going to pop over and say ello if you are still about?

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

I'll try and pop along also, but you may have most likely moved on by then, I'll text Chris on the Monday and find out what's what

Dave

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I love your no nonsense aproach to things! There doesn't seem to be a problem that you can't overcome with some simple butchering and swearing at it. .Looks like a proper fun track weapon.

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Dan - absolutely right, the joy of shit cars is that they're not very well built, which means they're fabulously easy to take apart again

Jim - Car Builder Solutions

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Brake problems all sorted then?

How much petrol you think you get through on a track day Owain?

Dave

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Thats good to know as we are looking at a snetterton day in October

How was the new track layout?

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Time is the greatest teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.

Snetterton's awesome, really enjoy the new layout. You can get a really good flow through it once you get used to it.

Did Rockingham today, which is always a bit of a weird one. It was wet this morning, and for the benefit of anyone who's never been there in the wet let me tell you what they do.

When it's wet, a man goes outside and scrapes up all the tarmac and replaces it with glass. Once that's done, they buff it to a mirror shine with one of those floor polishers they use in supermarkets, before letting all the cars loose on it. It's genuinely ridiculous, people spinning off on sighting laps, Caterhams all over the place like p*ssed flies, and it's just understeer central in a FWD car.

I didn't really enjoy the morning, but it soon dried up and I got a chance to give the car a battering, which it loved as ever. One of the top mount bearings is knackered, so that's great news. Oh, and I nearly hit a wall flying through pif-paf like an idiot, swinging the arse of the car this way and that. Had a bit of a moment and ended up stopping about a foot away from some armco.

Which could've been interesting.

But still, it went better than it did for this poor guy and his son. I'd been talking to them in the morning, really nice couple of guys. They were fine, but I nearly cried when I realised which car it was that had caused the major red.



Out of all the shanty ten-a-penny Caterhams and Westfields and bullshit cars, it had to be the 106 Rallye didn't it. This happened about 4pm, didn't really feel like going out much after that.

I was then due to meet up with Chris Harris, got myself a nice frock on, had my hair and makeup professionally done, and what does he do? Stands me up, the bas**rd. I hope you enjoyed staying late at work Christopher, you just missed out big time and will now never get to see the special panties I bought.

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