Wattos MK2 2 door

very nice mate.
i've got recaros in my 4 door
& the bases touch the door
trims aswell.

had my first blat at baskerville since I had the the head and the twin 45's last week.I'm doing laps around 2.5 sec faster than before in the low 1.10's. See below a matchup with a 350z, twas a bit of fun;

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

but predictably, the ol' standard clutch gave up after 4 runs, so now its in the shop getting a brass button one, and while its there, lightening the flyweel and putting in some better bolts as well.

oh and with the extra speed, the poor old std brakes are getting much more of a workout now, having some scary pedal to the floor type action after 2.5 laps.....[:0]

Awesome videos , looks like you were having a great time in the conditions , sounds great too

Craig

Nice car, pics, and videos! Looks like great fun.

cheers, I ended up sticking with the hotwires, and push that $$ torwards getting a full cage installed - Keen to improve safety. I'm still running an open diff atm - one day I'll be able to afford a lsd.

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Originally posted by michaelj0

cheers, I ended up sticking with the hotwires, and push that $$ torwards getting a full cage installed - Keen to improve safety. I'm still running an open diff atm - one day I'll be able to afford a lsd.

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Hotwires look great anyway.
As far as diff goes, try a welded centre for track - its cheap and it works. I was amazed the time I picked up going from open wheeler which was picking up the inside wheel everywhere to a locker. Im now running an LSD and to be honest don't favour it too much over just a welded diff (on track). The benefit of an LSD for me in not having to swap between welded and open when using the car on the road.

Rhys

had another blast up the domain hillclimb on the weekend. My best result yet, 10th overall and 3rd in class behind moreys escort and a supercharged mx5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTEVsoBygS0

Ran at a slightly modified Baskerville hillclimb event on the weekend co organised with a Porsche car club, so it was good to see some expensive machinery put though their paces. Came 1st in class (under 2ltr) by a poofteenth and 13th overall (out of 48) - so very happy with the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqAd7Xpysvw

did a little work over the chrissy break;

sealed the boot from the cabin, as our scrutineer was hassling me to seal it up because of the fuel pump is in the boot - and fair enough. Not entirely happy with it, but it was a good learning experience;



Installed some kmac 'race' strut tops, have a max of -1.5 camber now and some positive caster. has more direct steering feel now.



Bought a deep dish omp corsica replica (i recon) steering wheel off ebay (came from thailand). the wheel is now much closer to me and now I can heel & toe without my knees hitting the wheel. I like the look, and the quality is ok if you can look past the fact that the yellow straight ahead stripe is a little off centre.



the next job is to install a 6 point bolt-in rollcage that is coming from bond rollbars. ordered it with side intrusion and harness bar. I went with bond as I was put off by some local cowboy operations down here, and the custom cages (UK) one I wanted was far to expensive to post.

hey, mind me asking where did u get those filters from??

Got any pics of the rear bars and mounting positions Michael?

Does it just bolt through floor with re-inforcement plates on the underbody? Was it relatively easy to install?

Cheers,
Rhys

Hi Michael

Was it the roll cage guys i advised you to go to?? DOn't want to name them here in case!! Just out of interested, what sort of dollars did you pay for that cage?? Also, how much was freight??

What meeting are you going to be competing in next?? PLanning to have some changes done on mine for historic baskerville. Will be great to see another escort out there!!

Cheers

had a blast at the Hobart domain hill-climb today. Was coming 1st in class, except a pesky datto 1600 beat me on his last run, grrrr:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrB9CynbOw

picked up some new set of challengers off fleebay;



Anyone tried khumo v70a's and how they compare to toyo r888's?

cheers

chopped 1 around .5 sec off my previous pb at baskerville supersprints on the weekend to a 1.08.75. also came first in the under 2ltr class - so it was a great weekend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEGJf5jT94E

compilation from last round of the tas super series of 2010. Close running with a mk2 escort, Lauclans 3 wheeling mk1, mad sounding bda mk1, mini's & cortinas, oh and a ambitious corner entry speed....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwS20AdPgU

Very very nice!

Does this mean you will be running next weekend at baskerville??

Finally could afford some new toyos to put on the challengers.
Took 2 sec off my previous best at symmons plains time last weekend, due to higher max top speed, new rubber and better front suspension setup. Had a good result in the historic regularity - 2nd, Also now second in the championship, due to some bad luck by Adrian snapping a gear stick.

Not sure, probably needs to be engineered.

Nice to see your quick enough now, to get away from that pest in a White/red Mk1 Cortina.

hit baskerville last weekend hitting low 67's now need lsd, lsd, lsd
http://youtu.be/N6KO7pLSleI