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26 Feb 2007 geefin 0 comments

Track Day @ Silverstone PT 2

Well today was an eventful day with me going to silverstone with a frind of mine (Jimmy Brodie) and having a ride in his M3 a Porsche Boxster and an Audi RS4 , it was fucking brillant!

Those were the cars we took to the track day now here some other cars that we saw around the track.

Here come the Exotics now wow these things sound great!!

Some of the Jap army was out in force as well.

More Exotics

We were priveliged to actually see the guys testing one of the new Renualt Clio Kit cars.

Yes you guessed it more exotics, this Carrera GT was the highlight of my day and guess what they were 2 of them!

Man the amount of GT3’s there was sickening.

This poor guy stuffed his into the pit wall.

Well back to the exotics

*Takes breather*

Yep more GT3s

This is my favourite car of the track day , man this thing sounds good!

Yet again more GT3s well this is a Carrera S

Now for some random pics

Here are some videos

Me in the M3 ( video taping) going around silverstone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNA08jRPrF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3n4uB3Naqo

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17 Feb 2007 logic 3 comments

rally prep, rallying, competing, generic car stuff

Not to plan really, Motec wouldn’t talk to laptop so running with a bit of overboost, shaking out some naily connections in the engine bay none of this helped by me comprehensively beaching the car in the gravel in the first session…

Anyways, due to popular demand, here you go, comment yourselves out -

Brief vid courtesy of gRod - www.youtube.com/v/fEvFfnaG4i8

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17 Feb 2007 geefin 1 comment

rally prep, rallying, competing

Rolling Road for the Group N Evo RS

So, it was off to the Racing Line in Halifax to get the Group N car setup. Quite a few things to sort on it and in the end the quite a few things turned into a massive amount of things, Matt at the Racing Line proving patient, knowledgeable and (it needs to be said again) patient!

The first hurdle proving to be the Motec M48 installed, after a bit of headscratching it appear there are various versions of the M48, some older than others… this one being one of the older ones, so ensues fuckeries, short end of which is handmaking a comms cable onto the board itself!

Anyways, five days later we have -

fixed comms lead in glove box
Motec boost control solenoid
Motec MAP sensor
uprated fuel pump
new fuel filter, plugs, etc
nasty up the antilag a little

The car was mapped for both BP Ultimate (road running, cheap days out) and the more usual VP109 race fuel (stages, testing). The first image below shows just how much a 32mm Group N restrictor strangles the car, a measly 240bhp and 250ft/lbs of torque. Most of this was at 1bar of boost, further boost not making much difference whatsoever.

Then we move onto VP109, here we get up to a closer to normal 273bhp but the whopping 320ft/lbs of torque should prove fun. While not up to works Group N figures (and yet we wouldn’t expect that) it should prove entertaining, not least because the car should be light, very light. The graphs below show the torque curve and then the boost used. Just shows the difference a proper fuel can make!