It'll be fine, only thing you might find is waiting longer for rear tyres to grip under braking.

I run standard mounts, much prefer them. New beam absolutely transformed my car.

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Just remember to align it correctly after, there is movement on the mounts where they bolt to the beam, you can square it up properly if you undo the 4x18s and 2x16s

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Rear first, front after...

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You can but it's a faff. I used the hunter machine at Litchfield when I worked there

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New beam is together and on the car. Was a bit of a faff sorting the ride height as I didn't have a dummy shock but all sorted now.

Monster truck!


Still a bit high


Right height




Bit difficult to see but camber and toe looks good


All new nuts and bolts


I also pulled the inlet off and loosened the head bolts ready to take the engine out of the car shortly


Main blocker to getting the engine out is this MX5 shell we bought to strip down! That and our neighbours entire kitchen in the workshop...

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I'm pretty happy with it! Going to make some small changes next year to put some silver on the front so will see how it looks then.

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All my engine stuff including revs come from the serial connection between the ECU and the data logger. There's a little bit of lag but nothing special, about the only configuration I had to do was on my shift lights!

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Not quite plug and play, you need to get the firmware version changed in the ECU as the normal firmware doesn't support data logger streaming, this has to be done by Omex. Once the firmware is changed you have to use MAP3000 from then onwards and it's a bit more difficult to connect to the ECU as you have to connect in the first 2 or 3 seconds of start up and it only accepts connections from the last laptop / PC that modified the map. To connect from another laptop you have to send the map to the ECU in the first couple of seconds and it will work.

Once all that's done it's a bit of configuration in the logger to read the connection and it worked fine. I bought my kit with the inbuilt ECU deserialisation but it didn't work so Race Tech sent me an external deserialisation cable that worked fine. I think they've now fixed the inbuilt one, I might try it again soon in case it removes the lag I have.

I think the ECU gives me revs, water temp, air temp, battery voltage, and some other stuff I don't use.

If it's any use I can send you a data log file from one of my track sessions so you can see the data I log?

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Just got to say Wow at the size of your garage !

Very envious... May see you in 2018 if you are doing MSVR series

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With the beam pretty much finished it's on to the next problem of the engine. Over the weekend I took it out of the car and pulled the head off. I should have done a leak down test before taking the head off but was too keen to get it apart so forgot!





The bores look pretty good. There's a little lip at the top but I'm hoping I can clean that up without any machine work. Miles suggested I run some brake cleaner down the bores to see if the rings are leaking anything so I'll do that as well.



Gasket also looked ok so it's looking more likely that the overheat is caused by a warped head.



I sent the head off to a machine shop to have it skimmed but they found they couldn't do it with the valves in. From speaking to Miles and Pete it seems this isn't unusual so maybe nothing to worry about, I know tolerances in the RS engine are tight so perhaps not surprising the valves need to come out for a skim. Hopefully that will be sorted early next week.

Transverse engined 306



Finally we have a new addition to the race team, my dad now has his own race car so we're up to 3!

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This head has had a fair amount of work done to it already, Longman ported and polished it so wouldn't surprise me if it's had a skim.

WP, do you know the height of a non-skimmed and where to measure it from / to?

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oh and a standard gasket is 1.2mm, there is a repair gasket at 1.4mm but its a fibre not steel multi layer, which in reality should be perfectly fine.

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need a part number? get on here - http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com

Bring on the Trumpets.

The other mating face to measure to is the face where the cam carriers clamp down on to.

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