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Robin
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20th Apr 16 at 13:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Good job you understand regulations
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I don't understand regulations, I only understand scene.
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Bloke in office next door seems to have built a clio racing car, JJR racing? Will you be racing him?
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Is it yellow?
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https://www.facebook.com/JJRRacingTeam/?fref=nf
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Nope, not in this car at least
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Going to have fun making these tow straps the same as BTCC, I'm not looking forwards to it
Robin
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It's fine if theres somewhere to bolt them to! I'm having a mare with the front one.
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Front towing loop done, had to cut out the plastic lower down than I would have liked and plastic weld it back in above to it didn't look as crap. Looks reasonable enough and it's nice and solid.



Fitted the quick latch catches to the bumper so it can come off easily, the top is held on with dzus fasteners so it's about 10 seconds to get the bumper off now, which helps with loading onto a trailer.




Then I also replaced the front discs as I think they overheated at Bedford the other weekend, they were showing temperatures of about 550c when the car came into the pits so for peace of mind, I've swapped them when fitting the RS14s.



Fire extinguisher is mounted but didn't get a picture of that yet, need to run the lines for the nozzles and then work out how the hell I'm going to mount the pulls on the scuttle panel...

[Edited on 02-05-2016 by Robin]
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Ordered some tyres.

4x Toyo R888 for wets
4x Toyo R888R for dry

Also fitted the internal extinguisher pull
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quote:
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Ordered some tyres.

4x Toyo R888 for wets
4x Toyo R888R for dry

Also fitted the internal extinguisher pull


Other way around? I thought the R888R had better wet performance?

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Apparently not, old pattern shifts more water with it being directional
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Crikey, didn't realise that. I thought they had to release a new one to meet road legal standard which included better anti-aquaplaning properties etc.

I think I would have picked a different tyre for dedicated wets than R888s in any case

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Unless it's a mandatory control tyre ofc.

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Maybe that's the case then.

One of the lads who races in the series the Mrs is entering recommended this way round so we'll see what works best
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quote:
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Unless it's a mandatory control tyre ofc.


Yep that's the 2 choices in the regs
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quote:
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Maybe that's the case then.

One of the lads who races in the series the Mrs is entering recommended this way round so we'll see what works best


It was only an assumption of mine, did some googling after your last post and it doesn't mention any improvement of wet weather performance on the 'R so the advise is probably right. Caught me off guard though!

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Saw this yesterday at Donnington, very capable little car

Think I've got some fly-by vids if you're interested?
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That'd be cool! Email the to me if you can, robin.marriott@yahoo.co.uk
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I've got some pics from the race weekend at Donington which I can't upload because the image uploader is broken.
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Here we go!







5th in class in both races, 11th overall out of a full 32 car grid!
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So... Snetterton

She qualified 3rd in class, had a reasonable start and then this happened...





Still, she finished 3rd in class so got her first trophy

All 'repaired' for race 2



She had a blinding start, was leading her class then misread a mechanical warning flag so came into the pits, lost the lead and ended up finishing 5th

Not a great weekend but the car isn't actually that bad.

I wasn't there so I need to say thank you to all the people who mucked in and managed to get the car back out for race two, pretty much everyone lent a helping hand, competitors included so it's a decent championship and a great bunch of people!

Fastest lap in her class in both races too!

[Edited on 12-09-2016 by Robin]
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Must have been going too slow
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Definitely.

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