Won't be while early next year I think, got 12k to splash out on a new tube bender first

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whats the specs of what your planning full space frame or chopped up car shell etc

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Well, car ready, all packed up, loaded on trailer...and Ed gets called into work. Bloody farmers.

Sat twiddling thumbs on the offchance that we can get down there tonight, but it's not looking likely now - it's a 6 hour drive, and it'll be at least 2 hours to walk the course in the morning and half an hour for scrutineering too....

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Yeah, just a bit. Lots of blue air floating about, I'd shut your windows in case it blows in...

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At least it'll stand up to the heat from the sunny weather...

I vented my frustration by wasting half a tank of fuel doing donuts in the yard tbh.

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Wish I had!

Yes, ye olde 1.4 had a thrashing on the way home, fried my Bluestuff brake pads

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Well, few issues again, that's what you get when you've not got anywhere big enough to test it - car misfiring badly when it got warm, which meant we took a maximum penalty time early on for not completing a stage.
Think it was down to a couple of failing coils, however, we didn't have enough spare coils to replace them all and completely get rid of the issue, but we got it better and good enough to run around all day, albeit still with a misfire and about 40bhp down from a reduced rev limit to preserve the engine/coils.

Apart from that, it was an absolutely fantastic course, with something for everyone - some faster stuff through a couple of fields, plenty of lanes through forests, turning into tight tree-dodging sections (which the new suspension and fiddle brakes on our car were fantastic, I don't think there could have been anything much faster through them), and then some nice narrow flowing tarmac and gravel sections back through the forests again. Think it's up there for one of the best events we've been to.
It also gave a great proving ground for some alterations to the brakes and the suspension work, and they were flawless all day, so at least the rest of the car is about where it needs to be now, on pure laptimes we weren't all that far behind the podium guys even with the dicky engine, which was encouraging.

Pity about the engine as it's cost us any chance of regaining a podium this year, but that can be sorted and it's proven the rest of the upgrades anyway.
However, since the engine was playing silly buggers anyway, we spent half the day giving passenger rides, which judging by the grinning faces when they got out went well

Hopefully we can still hang on to some more points at the next event after sorting the engine, and make sure we get a single figure race number for next year

We did get the highest jump over a bump in the field though

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In the hope of sorting out the munching coils issue, there's a set of D585 coils on the way from the 'states, they're a lot more powerful than the stock mazda coils, but more importantly, the components are rated for a higher ambient temperature (120*c instead of 85*) and they come with their own heatsink on the ignitors to help with cooling.

Should help with coil life, they're a damn sight cheaper too, bought 8 x D585's for less than the price for 4 Mazda OEM coils.
Got some rewiring to do to make them fit, and need to make some new ends for the Magnecor leads, and some tweaking to the dwell tables in the ECU to charge the new coils for longer.

Fingers crossed!

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Shiny new leads, beefy coils and new wiring, hopefully should stand up to the heat and abuse a bit better than the Mazda ones!

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Arrrgh, spare gearbox in, test run, stuck it in reverse and it jammed there and won't come out. Engine out again... :

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f*ckin heavy handed van drivers!

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Right, after a very rough event at Kirton today, we've managed to claw a couple of places back and end the year 8th overall in the Championship, albeit after battering the skid pans to death, punching two holes in the floor, cracking the windscreen on a hard landing and hitting the engine skid pan hard enough to dent it the whole way across and put a dent in the sump too.
Oops. :
This stand-in engine was feeling decidedly unhappy towards the end of the day too tbh!


Writeup later!

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