Clive's 400 BHP Super GT RX-8 Race Car

[boosted]

Good luck for tomoz Clive...im feeling a double win me thinks.

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[clive]

New times qualifying at 10.15
Race 2 now 11.55
Race 8 now 15.25

[lennycarloff]

Good luck today, I will be following online.

[clive]

First race starting now

[clive]

Got up to 2nd  Bad judgement on tyre pressure caught nose in ditch    finished 10th decided not to race in 2nd race

That's all folks will update later or tomorrow thanks for your support

[boosted]

Ive just got up from nights...eek...
Is car ok?

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[Jamie R]

Feel for you Clive, not the result you anticipated.

Draw a line under and brave on to the next round?

[clive]

Mallory Race Report!.

Well after running car at JDM Coombe  where I had a misfire above 8K I debated about getting the car up to WGT to look at the map and now I wish I had, but then hindsight is a wonderful thing! Pip was so busy we agreed it "should" be OK!

Literally first lap out in qualifying the car had a chronic misfire, this time between 5/6K under load which made the car pretty un-driveable so only did a few laps to make sure I qualified and would up a surprising 5th with a 53.1 out of 26 cars !!   

Thinking it may have been just spark plugs, I tried a different grade of plugs for the race.
Perhaps even more importantly because the car was over steering a little through Gerards which is the longest corner in the UK, I softened the suspension a little plus took a couple of pounds out of the O/S/R.

The car has such good ballence that even small changes make a difference, something which sadly I was about to find out, because I had now put too much understeer into the car .

With the car still misfiring just the same, I got myself into second place on  the first lap and then on the second lap with warmer tyres the car was feeling better so I tried to carry more speed into the John Cooper Esses, but as soon as I turned in I thought "Yeh, we are not going round this corner"  but I thought, no problem I will just straight line it though and all will be OK, after all  Vettle got away with it , WRONG   

As you are approaching you just see a line of dirt, wrong, its a damn ditch, and after the race all I heard was ditch stories where many cars have destroyed themselves going through there, apparently one of the Track Attack cars last year took his whole front suspension assembly off, drive shafts and all. 
You will see our resident photographer was over the moon he got the pictures of the car destroying itself 

Dragging the cars alloy splitter under tray etc firmly wedged under the  car I finished a lowly 10th, embarrassingly still being presented a nice big trophy  .

Could have been a worse day though as three cars took themselves head first into the barriers out of  Gerards with all three cars destroyed but thankfully with no injuries.

Here's some before, during my launch and after           

[boosted]

Blimey Clive you had some fun...i like that last photo front wheel off floor...

This misfire...lead or coil...worth  checking connections?.
Swapping leading and trailing?

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[clive]

Blimey Clive you had some fun...i like that last photo front wheel off floor...

This misfire...lead or coil...worth  checking connections?.
Swapping leading and trailing?

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Thanks Jon, once I stiffend the back suspension up again, the handling came back, no grunt on the straights but as you can see, I was still trying in the corners 

Loaded up after the first race as there was no point untill I can sort the misfire.  Its going to have to go back on the rollers as it only happens  under load.   

If you look you can see all the front of the car trapped underneath

[boosted]

Off to see Pip then...would be nice to continuity check the coil looms...earth power and trigger....just remembering the injector prob.

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It's still over-boosting, which may have altered the map.

The day could have been worse, here's one of the three cars involved in the accident, this ones real bad but the Proton was proper dead! 

[clive]

Whoops, sorry Jon, I just edited your post, boy its been a long day!

[boosted]

No worries....oh dear thst is a right off surely reshell.. Thats bad...
The Proton Satria dead as well..getting rare...mmmm.  The satria is basically a rebadged Mitsi Colt gti...just like mine...getting very rare indeed....

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[Jamie R]

That's a serious amount of body damage 

You going to need new bumper etc?

[re japi]

Bugger... really sorry to hear that...

Christine is lawn trimming... Its obvious from that photo to see that there will be damages...

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