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Posted By : Michael Davis, 17-Mar-2004, 01:13pm
I'm about to go spend my lunch break fabricating a fuel pump aperture blanking plate with an angle grinder. Is that loud enough for you? 
Twenty days! Aargh! I still don't have an engine and my tow vehicle seems to be broken too now
Oh, and the weather forecast
for the weekend says "rain and gales". Great.
The entry for Silverstone is still sitting on the table downstairs too. Must send that off too...
Lots to do, little time (or money) left! How's everyone else doing then?
Twenty days! Aargh! I still don't have an engine and my tow vehicle seems to be broken too now
Oh, and the weather forecast
for the weekend says "rain and gales". Great.The entry for Silverstone is still sitting on the table downstairs too. Must send that off too...
Lots to do, little time (or money) left! How's everyone else doing then?
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Posted By : Andy Vowell, 17-Mar-2004, 01:28pm
Car came off the Monday, engine ran (sort of) yesterday and just been to have tyres fitted and tracking done this morning. Is'nt paternity leave great!
Few problems still to sort, not sure if brake calipers are seeping, timing does not seem quite right (backfires) and found some "mayonaise" under the oil filler cap (could be from winter condensation - he hopes).
Plus the whole car really does not seem as shiney as last year.
But looking good for Silverstone.
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Posted By : David Thompson, 17-Mar-2004, 01:43pm
So how many actual entries for Silverstone are there? Mine's still sat on the kitchen table too. It looks like Andy, Steve A and Stackey at the moment - any other entries in?
Still no engine, 1 door, suspension/tracking needs aligning, dashboard hanging out all over the place and 2 flat tyres.
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Posted By : Andy Vowell, 17-Mar-2004, 02:20pm
So is that Steve "All Steel" Adams or Steve "just load it on the trailer after 1 lap" Adams who is coming to Silverstone?
I don't have a spare stopwatch for Stacky timing but I can find a sundial to lend you for the job
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 17-Mar-2004, 02:46pm
hmm, is there a sensible answer to the question "how long after ordering a transponder does it take for one to arrive?"-
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Posted By : Richard King, 17-Mar-2004, 02:48pm
I've optimistically put my Silverstone entry in.
Despite having half an engine and no transmission...
I'm 90% sure I'll be there though.
Transponders? Mine came within a week or two I think. The MGCC can lend you one, I think.
To be honest you can race without one, give them a ring and say you might not have it in time, I doubt they'll mind.-
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 17-Mar-2004, 02:52pm
I reckon it'll be here in time, I just wondered how long it took. Better order some tyres too while I think about it...aren't credit cards great!
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Posted By : Andy Winterton, 17-Mar-2004, 07:11pm
Car still in pieces....
Transponder arrived today 2 weeks after ordering....
Discovered that MSA has decided my house is 10 miles away from where I always thought it was...... which is why my licence hasn't arrived... and now they want to charge me for a duplicate....
But Silverstone entry is in.... you know all those pub stories where the car is finished at 1am on the morning of the race and the paint is still wet as it is loaded on the trailer.... aiming for such a story, but without the usual ending of "but we won the class anyway"-
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Posted By : Ralph Jane, 17-Mar-2004, 11:13pm
Hello to all, at long last I've bitten the bullit and joined the tssc (after racing with the the TR Reg for the last 3 years) lets see if its worth it. Free insurance for trailers sounds good, keep up the pressure Nig. Herman (number 54 to the other racers) was placed gently in my workshop after the last race at Brands in 03 only being softly woken once every 2 or 3 weeks just to keep the fluids still fluid and the blankets warm. My 2nd race engine performed well at Brands so I won't be changing anything apart from the brake fluid which boiled in the calipers causing slow pedal to hit the floor a number of times. Funds are tight this year so will spend available cash on race entries only, hope to see the usual suspects at silverstone along with a crop of new blood. Class C is looking very healthy and I think there will be a large pack of equaly fast cars chasing Mr Lucas this season, not likely to chatch him tho', far to much talent holding on to that tiny wheel, no matter how fast I think I'm going in to corners Paul comes past me like I'm in reverse even though I'm only 0.4 or 0.5 secs a lap slower.
Just a quick long overdue public thanks to Jon Wolff, Steve Crane and Andy Vowell for all their help at various meetings in keeping me in the race.
Good luck to all and remember "when the flag drops, the bulls**t stops"-
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Posted By : Andy Vowell, 18-Mar-2004, 00:06am
So - "when the flag drops, the bulls**t stops"
That's 23 days of bull to go then, did I mention my 150bhp engine in my 500Kg car
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Posted By : Andy Winterton, 18-Mar-2004, 07:31am
Mark, great choice of topic - seems it's one we all like to bulls**t about-
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 18-Mar-2004, 08:36am
Dunno about you lot, but do you get the feeling we're at the start of something big? (calm befor the storm?)-
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Posted By : Andy Winterton, 18-Mar-2004, 10:24am
Calm? CALM??? What, are you crazeeeee?
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Posted By : Richard King, 18-Mar-2004, 09:24am
150bhp? With the new class A rules you'll be behind us lot then
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Posted By : Andy Vowell, 18-Mar-2004, 10:16am
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Posted By : Richard King, 18-Mar-2004, 10:52am
Ahh. I was going to say.
I think I'm somewhere in the 250 range BHP wise - that's at 18,000 RPM, of course.
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Posted By : Mark Hadfield, 18-Mar-2004, 12:24pm
These Barry bashers are they available off the shelf or are they special order jobbies just looked in the moss catalogue and i cannot find them but they do sound a good idea
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 18-Mar-2004, 02:41pm
Hello there, welcome to the messageboard (pretty sure you've not been here before)
Not sure I like the phrase "a crop of new blood" in relation to Silverstone
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 18-Mar-2004, 02:45pm
Well, my transponder arrived today, and my tyres, and the entry form for Croft!
That just leaves the engine then...oh, and the seat mountings. And the exhaust. Oh yes, and the suspension setup too...and the MOT... and...and...
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 18-Mar-2004, 03:27pm
Well, get off the message board and get in with it then
I want regular progress reports y'know...
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 18-Mar-2004, 03:49pm
Ah, but I can post progress reports on the messageboard whilst doing money-earning work. Hard to do that whilst i'm under the car!
Anyway, I'm stuck waiting for my engine to come back from being assembled. Everything else is lined up waiting for that. Frustrating but hopefully it could be done as soon as tomorrow so I can fit it this weekend (in between the "severe gales" and "heavy rain" that the met. office is promising.
Maybe I'll fit my new wheels tonight and see if they fit in my wheelarches properly...
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 18-Mar-2004, 04:44pm
sounds like you need a free Monkey just to help you out... where' James "Chimp" Carruthers when you need him?
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 18-Mar-2004, 05:00pm
Im just going to ignore this...
James
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 18-Mar-2004, 05:28pm
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 19-Mar-2004, 03:22pm
oops, my engine is now not going to be ready until next week, so I lose another whole weekend of spanner time
I've sent in two race entries anyhow though in the meantime!
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Posted By : David Styles, 17-Mar-2004, 03:06pm
Well, its not too quiet round here...
I repositioned the car in the garage yesterday, which meant I was able to drive it up and down the drive a couple of times.
Just found out that I can't take it to a "Mallory Morning" without a license.
(Quote: "Absolutely Not... NO ... No Way")
so have booked in for my ARDS. This was going to be the last thing I did... but I'm finding I need one.
still not found anywhere to live though... so no RACING in sight yet.
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Posted By : Mark Hadfield, 17-Mar-2004, 03:43pm
Mine and Dads entries are in so we will be there, its great to have our own secretary sorting that stuff out (thanks Mum) . Just a thought, I see these transponders have yet to bring the entry fees down yet maybe next year.
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 17-Mar-2004, 03:53pm
House next door to me is for sale
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Posted By : David Styles, 17-Mar-2004, 04:44pm
Mik... might be tempting.. has it got a garage...
I'm looking for a large garage with a house attached
I'm living at my mother-in-laws at the mo....
it looks like we might be instigating Plan B though, which is to buy somewhere small in Yorkshire while we look for what we want. (but it'll have to have a garage !)
talking to my wife last night though... she says that if we go to Plan B, then I'm allowed to race when we've moved there, I don't have to wait for Plan B phase 2.
PS, Mik... I can be seen most Friday afternoons travelling up the A1 to Richmond, and then can be seen again on Sunday evenings going southwards back to London. So I probably whizz past the vicinity of your house twice a week at the mo!
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 17-Mar-2004, 08:24pm
hehe. No garage next door I'm afraid. I could do with that garage-with-a-house-attached too, no chance of that happening anytime soon though.
A1 is a few miles from here, I'm on the other side of Bradford/Leeds.
Housing is certainly cheap here (compared to London anyway). All depends what you're looking for I guess.
Drop me an email if you're ever in this direction and in need of a coffee
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Posted By : Kev Hadfield, 17-Mar-2004, 11:10pm
Well looks like class A is going to be well attended should be good thats five of us that are going just John Thompson we dont know about
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 17-Mar-2004, 05:16pm
Yup - that's right, you need your race license for naything labelled a 'testing' session.
However, you don't one for the Mallory 'trackday', not testing, no, no definately not - quick hide the stopwatch
Seriously, though timing laps at the track day will contravien their insurance cover and you may get asked to leave.
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Posted By : Barry Blakeley, 17-Mar-2004, 04:05pm
20 days.......impossible!!!, still got to get/fit a dizzy,spray the car then refit everything, then get it on the rolling road.
Entry for s/stone is sent so no choice other than burn the midnight oil.
Looking forward to some very close racing if Mark's Mallory time is correct.
There should be about 6 or 7 cars on the same pace so show a little respect for 1 and no bumping our shiney new panels and paint jobs!!!
Barry
Entry for s/stone is sent so no choice other than burn the midnight oil.
Looking forward to some very close racing if Mark's Mallory time is correct.
There should be about 6 or 7 cars on the same pace so show a little respect for 1 and no bumping our shiney new panels and paint jobs!!!
Barry