Racing My 89 TII in February - Help!

[Highside]

Chris,

I have just PM\'ed you my e-mail address.

Cheers

Highside

[Grizzly]

You would be amazed what you can do on very little

You will have to let me in on the secret? lol

I have spent a fortune on the car but whats money for?

Have you got a bit of a Rotary back ground?

Chris

P.S. Check your E-mail Tomorow night.

[Highside]

Originally posted by Grizzly


I have spent a fortune on the car but whats money for?

Have you got a bit of a Rotary back ground?

Well you sure can\'t take the cash with you, so what the hell!

I don\'t have a rotary background as such - But I do have some very tressured memorys of watching Trevor Nation lapping Cadwell Park 3 seconds faster than any other bike in BSBK on a bonkers Norton Rotary, when I was younger and more impressionable.  

Now I\'m older (ish) and more irresponsible, I decided I wanted to race a rotary, and as works Norton Rotarys are tad thin on the ground, and Mazda wouldn\'t lend me there Le Mans car, an RX7 has to be the next best thing!

Happy Racing

Highside

[Grizzly]

What sort of cars will you be racing against?

Chris

[Highside]

Alright Chris,

The basic Rules for the Pom\' are that the car must be either:

Over 2000cc, or
Over 1500cc witha Turbo Charger / Supercharger.

Apart from that, anything goes, as long as it is road legal (i.e. T&T + Insured) and driven on the road to and from the event.  

Things are kept in check (sort of), by a handicaping formula known as the "Lenord Pomroy Solution".  

Lenord Pomroy was a bit of a boy about town back in the late 1920\'s, and figured that there should be a formula to work out the ultimate grand touring (aka road racing car).  This formula went something like this:

H = (70 x C x Y) / L

Where:
H = the handicap figure for the car
C = the capacity of the car (multiply by 1.3 for TC or SC cars)
Y = the year of manufacture of the car, minus 1900 (so a car built in 1989 would have a variable Y equal to 89 and so on)
L = (for Front engined cars) is the distance from the pad of teh clutch peddle to the centre of the rear axle.
or, L = (for rear engined cars) is the distance from the pad of the clutch peddle to the nearest perpendicular point of the firewall.

.....Not exactly the theory of relativity is it!

Anyway, in answere to your question (finaly!), you get an amazing range of cars racing, from rich boys out in daddys Ferrari, to pucker 70\'s rallying 911s, to pre war type 35B Bugattis with crude mud gards added!

Because of the slightly weird formula for the handicap, a different car wins it every year, usualy determined by what the weather is doing, and how good the driver is.  Frank Sytner and James Wattson are past winners (Jag D-type and Capri respectively!).  My brother came 4th a couple of years back - and is determined to win it this year, in a knackered Talbot Sunbeam!

The VSCC is the last bastion of the flat earth society, and hence is full of weird excentics, who spend their entire lives spending their beer money on putting a 1932 27,000cc Napier Aero engine in a bently chassis (really)  There always some really weird specials that turn out to race.

When I get the entry list through, I\'ll post it to you.

Happy Racing

Highsode

[Highside]

Chris,

I picked up the drawings on friday - thanks mate, just the job.

They certainly wont be too tricky to produce - I might well see if I can get a set made up next weekend.

I\'ll let you know.

Cheers

Highside

[Glenn Butcher]

Highside!

How are you?

How is your car coming together? What weekend are you running your car?

[Highside]

Alright Glen,

Just a quick progress report with the mods so far.  I\'ve only had the car in my evil clutches for two weeks now (as the previous owner lost the V5, so I had to wait for the DVLA to send him through a new one, which took a month), so it has been a very hectic schedule!

So far I have:

1) Striped out all the interior, and all the stuff I dont need (like the arial, speakers, seats etc.
2) Half way though fitting the bucket seat (that curved floor is a pain in the butt!)
3) Have fitted the fire extiguisher.
4) Have fitted the harnesses.
5) Had the powerflow exhaust made and fitted (Flames!).
6) Have got a new hood to replace the bent one (wrong colour but beggers cant be choosers)
7) Have got a new fule pump (3rd gen from rx-motors), will fit that tomorrow night.
Have fitted new Plugs and Magnecore Racing HT leads.
9) Have fitted the new steering wheel (thanks for the boss adam!)
10) have replaced all the fluids and filters (i.e. engine oil and filter, fuel filter, gearbox oil, diff oil etc....)
11) Finaly - I re-routed the headlamp washers to spray directly onto the intercooler.  Hasn\'t been that efective in the current weather, but could be worth it\'s wait in gold if I have to que up for a long time on the way to the grid before the start.


Stuff still to do (no particular order):

1) Get some braided lines and overhaul the brakes (been standing for three years effectively, and while the brakes work, they don\'t exactly inspire confidence......).
2) Port the wastgate.
3) Posibly make and fit a DIY FCD (but the car is going very nicely thankyou at teh moment anyway, so I don\'t want to invite any reliability issues if I dont have too).
4) Drain and flush the cooling sytem.
5) Get rid of the electric sunroof mechanisum if possible.
6) Fit new tyres as the old ones have nasty looking ozone cracks in them.  Probably go with either Falkens or Toyos - any sugestions?
7) Fit a BOV - because I\'m a tart :p !
Clean it - its filthy!

.....Actualy there is loads else to do, but my brain is strugeling to engage - too many late nights in the garrage!

I will post up some pictures of the progress so far as soon as I can persuade my mate to lend me his digital camera.

The race by the the way is on the 22nd of Feb, which is teh weekend after next.  I had better get my skates on!

Happy Racing

Highside

[Glenn Butcher]

Gees mate!  getting stuck in!

That\'s what we like to see.  I\'ll see if I can come down (at Brands isn\'t it?).

You going to put some negative camber on the front and rear? bit of positive caster also on the front?  will make it handle much better.

[Highside]

The race is at Silverstone on Saturday the 22nd.

All are welcome - I\'ll let you know where I will be in teh padock next week as soon as I here.  It\'s preety much free to get in - just make a donation to the marsalls fund on the way in.

First car race though - I\'m getting nervous!

I\'m not really planning to play with teh suspension, as much as I really want to.  If I get time I will put the car in to get a full four wheel alignment done.  Any suggested set ups?

Happy Racing

Highside