Oh cool. How much camber did you go for? I went for camber adjustable top mounts, made a massive difference.

Just cut a hole in the bumper and screw it in?

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There's a place in West London called Speed Shack that I've heard are pretty good for spacers.

Alternatively:
http://www.wellspacedout.co.uk/hubcentric-spacers-15mm/4x108-hubcentric-15mm-set-of-4
http://www.jjcraceandrally.com/race/wheel-spacers/hub-buddies-peugeot-citroen-15mm-competition-wheel-spacer-kit-4x108-205-206-saxo-c2-306-309-xsara-ax

You're looking for a set of hubcentric spacers in 4x108 pattern with a centre bore of 65.1mm. Try to get ones that bolt in to your hub then give you studs to put the wheel on. I have a set that I run on the road car from Kei Racing that do it but can't seem to find a link.

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We had the car out again for the MSVR Media Day during the week at Brands. Was a great day and good to meet a few of the other teams and competitors. Car ran really well although we need to sort the setup out as it's far from optimal at the moment. During the day we confirmed that there was gearbox fluid leaking from the level plug. Bit of a struggle to get it out as the thread was completely ruined but when we did we found out that the thread in the gearbox cover itself was damaged. Luckily the cover on the spare car was ok so had to swap them over and that should have fixed the leak. Now just power steering fluid left to stop leaking!







We also had the car dynoed. Result was 148bhp at the hub so pretty much what I expected.

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5th April is the first race at Snet

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Thanks, it's good fun to drive! Hoping to bring it to FCS / Pugfest this year

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Been a while since I updated this, lots of stuff has happened!

Testing at Snet went well. The car handled superbly after the geometry was set properly and was a lot of fun to drive. Laptimes were coming along well and we ended on a 2:25.8 high, at which point I stopped as I didn't want to break the car before the race weekend had begun. Qualifying started well, my Dad was slightly down on the testing pace he had and set a fastest laptime of 2:27 before I went out. First 2 laps were low 2:26s and then I shifted into second instead of fourth causing a lot of damage There was a loud tapping sound so we had assumed the valves had hit the pistons.

Here's a video from quali, conveniently cut just before the car broke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inbyis0HBsc

Having decided that there was no point staying to watch the race we loaded the car up and went home to begin stripping things down. We had never touched the engine so it was a bit of an unknown and took a bit of time. At the end of the weekend we had the head off and sent it away to be checked over however it looked ok and there were no marks on the pistons. One thing we did notice was that we could not lock the cams and crank together, they were out of line. As a matter of course we took out the pistons and noticed that the shells on piston 3 were particularly worn, more so than the others that didn't look great in the first place. This looked like it was the cause of the problem, the shells had overheated and caused some damage.

I ordered in a load of new parts including: cambelt kit, head gasket, inlet gasket, exhaust gasket, head bolts, solid crank pulley, thermostat, shells, aux belt, Miles gear linkages and 10L of new oil. I heat wrapped the manifold while it was out as well. We rebuilt the engine this weekend and had it running on Sunday for about 15 minutes before the rattle came back.

We think the crank itself is damaged however are just checking a few things like the oil pump in case it was damaged when it over-revved or oil not flowing correctly.

Few pictures from along the way (all track photos courtesy of JAM Motorsport Photography):













Gear linkages:



Heat wrapped manifold:

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Good point RE the rods, hadn't considered them being damaged. Might explain why the rattle came back, we've seen some markings on the caps to indicate they have got too hot so wouldn't surprise me if the rods are gone as well.

Looks like a change of engine is needed then!

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It's just time really. Pulling the engine out and dropping another in will probably be quicker than taking the head back off and swapping the rods out.

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A known engine is always better, agreed. I still think the crank is damaged slightly around piston 3, the shell was too worn for there not to be some damage there. Plus we saw metal flakes in the oil after we rebuilt the car and ran it. Therefore the engine will have to come out to change that. Still makes sense to pick up a spare engine just in case, I'd rather have one sat there waiting than not. I'd like to use the current engine as it means I don't have to get it dynoed again but would be silly to not plan ahead.

Track time has been limited so far! Next race is at Rockingham and I'm determined to make that so will see how it goes there.

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Nice to see my brakes been used on the track

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Where did the road go!

Chris

Standard rowd compound pads though, just sized for a brembo caliper. Best thing about brembos is it takes like 20 seconds to change them.

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It does seem to eat pads, need to keep an eye on that.



Thanks! Hopefully the new engine is fine. The early laps were about 1.5 seconds slower than the end laps. We're racing again next weekend if the engine goes ok so should have more footage then

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Thanks for reminding me, so much stuff has gone on that I need to write a length update! Will start now.

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