Track car project - season 3

[Zirax]

Just thinking for a moment, would the racing battery stand upto being used on runs? The battery in mine has died and I was wondering whether to replace with a lighter one while I'm doing it. Or would it likely die quickly?

[vix]

Our car was left with the ignition on all day so we wouldn't have to reset the datalogger and we didn't have any problems

[kaiowas]

Originally Posted by Zirax

Just thinking for a moment, would the racing battery stand upto being used on runs? The battery in mine has died and I was wondering whether to replace with a lighter one while I'm doing it. Or would it likely die quickly?

Only compromise with a smaller battery is that it may not last as long if you sit there with the engine off and the radio on or something plus it may not have enough grunt to start it on a cold winters morning. Ours has been no trouble though, even used the car a few times when the weather was snowy and it cranked it over with no problem.

[vix]

Some track photos - non watermarked ones are by Norwich Motorsport Photography.

Phil looks on as Humph and I attack the straight:



Phil driving - showing off the new sponsor stickers:



Me driving and smiling:



I guess I'd go quicker with my eyes open?

[vix]

I just realised I said I was last, but that was in my class, not overall - I actually didn't do too badly and surprised a few of my fellow competitors

[vix]

Press release here:

http://www.toyotasprint.com/tss/imag...reportrnd1.pdf

[vix]

They're not usually this close together, but we had round two on Easter Sunday.

Phil had changed the gearbox (in 5.5 hours, a new record!) for this event due to me needing two hands to change gear in the last one. As the weather had been shoddy, we hadn't had much chance to test it, but had at least checked it was still bolted on

On our first practice run, Phil brought the car back to the paddock as he had difficult selecting second, urgh! I tried it on my run and yep, you felt like you were in second, til you lifted the clutch, and the car shouted at you. Back to the pits, and a few tie wraps later and the problem was bodged for the day. A rubber boot had come loose on the gear cable meaning that when you stretched the cable (ie selected a gear) it just sort of bunched up rather than stretched.

My target of the day was to beat my last year time of 66 seconds. Having done this on my second run, with a 63, I decided to try and get a sub 60 time, like the rest of my class!

Speaking of the rest of the class, the 300bhp Starlet was there again, so no sign of a big trohpy for us! Phil started focussing on a runner up time, and was fastest of the rest of the class by lunchtime with a 59.54.

We were't totally happy with the car though. We were seeming to have problems with getting the power down, and Phil was especially struggling with the starts. We were overtaken in the afternoon by the rest of the class and came home trophyless once again. There was only 3 hundredths of a second between Phil and the guy above him, it's not like we were well off the pace, just seemed to have a few niggles today.

Still, we have about 8 weeks to the next event so hopefully can have a good look at the car!

[Zirax]

*CCCruunch*
It's in there somewhere!

Nice one, it's good to see you getting quicker. I am aiming to get to the June round, can't tell you how much I am missing it this year Damn working away up North *shakes fist*

[vix]

It wasn't even that comedy, it felt like it went in, (said the bishop to the nanny) but when you lifted the clutch, Humph just roared at us :/

[Knipples]

I wish I wasn't so far away, i'd love to come watch you racing!