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to b honest m8 u should`nt b driving a rx7 in the snow/ice as it will slide all over the place without any notice or any rwd without traction control, snow is for 4wd cars.

I drove my FD up Devil\'s Dyke in Feb many years back - got halfway up and found it was snow and ice...  Eagle F1s on it and getting to the top was interesting but perfectly doable with some care.

Coming back down was damn scary.

Set of decent winter tyres and a very sensible right foot and respect of speed and it\'d be possible to survive a winter in an FD without issue.

Hi,

Found this thread after a little searching:

http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1573

Oulton Park October 4

My local - will be looking forwards to this!

Hope it\'s all going well - good luck Clive et al!

Looking great - bit of a change form the ossum purple.

Congrats Gurj!  Have you considered e-pub?  Without the cost of the physical printing you may well be able to reach a much bigger audience.

They had Nick Check the wheel and it looked a little scratched.

Indeed - had the rear off, checked for roundness and re-balanced (to <10g out) by Nick but the vibration is still there.

It\'s matched to road speed/wheel rotation, I\'ll have to get the front checked as there\'s a possibility that there was light contact there.

I did slam on and lock up the fronts after getting clouted @90ish so I\'m wondering if it could be a monumental flat-spot on the front.  Will have a look this weekend.

Apart from the early end to the day it was absolutely cracking - great to meet everyone!

I am sure next time he is out in the car he wont be shouting at people "you can get a bus through there"

Felt a bit bad for the Elise owner - it was his mate driving it!  The instructor I was with at the time was adamant I\'d done nowt wrong.

Ho hum!

Made it home safely... still got the judder somewhere on the left side after an Elise decided to tag me heading up clay hill into druids.  Couldn\'t see anything wrong with the rear suspension, am wondering if he managed to tag the front wheel as well - there are some suspect marks just forwards of the door...

Was a tad exciting at approaching 90mph.

Nothing Like last minutes issues !

Rears are locking up too much on my new pads so may need to swap them back too !

Out doing a last minute run of the car yesterday and did a few heavy breaks from ~50 and the rears locked up which was odd.  Put it down to rust on the disks as the car hadn\'t been run for 4 weeks.

Was a little concerned the ABS didn\'t stop that happening!

If it rains (which it won\'t of course ) we might be needing them....

It\'s been pretty moist up here for a while now, expect more of the same!

Really looking forwards to this :driving

Front on as far forwards as possible.

Clive, something like this would make a nice weapon for that series:

http://www.speedsource.com/speedsource-car-specs.cfm

Richard

Was about to link to that - caught a bit of the Grand Am race from Miami on MotorsTV where this beauty was racing.

Apparently in the previous race it handed the Porsche and Ferrari entries a lesson!

Might pop over from sunny north Staffs - route would take in Leek, Buxton, Bakewell and Chesterfield and the twisties in between.

Will make a call on the day though!

I guess what it really shows is that the standard of refereeing in the US game is sub-par.  You can guarantee that some prem players would get away with that stuff if they could.

Any number of those incidents would have seen a streight red in most european football because it was done with malice and intent rather than accidental or late.