The car has been away for the last 2 weeks. Deposited at a small company called ATF engineering, who are doing some work for me on the seat mounts and the harness bar.
Plan is to recover the car sometime in the next 2 weeks, and sort out whatever is causing the chronic turn-in oversteer in the car (most liekly worn bushes or drive-flange methinks).
Trackday booked end of June, targeting Donington in August. Seems like an eterninty but I know the time will fly as we are moving house.
Friday 22 May 2009
Sunday 3 May 2009
Those chrysanthemum's are nice, dear
OK so....it's May 3rd.
Just seen the results come in for the A1 Gp meet at Brands and top work to Mr Stanley and Mr Pitch for excellent drives (Ben especially). Equal sympathy to Chris Randall who after an astonishing winter-build had created a fantastic Europa race car, only for it to be punted into the barrier at Druids on it's 4th race outing - Chris here's hoping you can get the thing mended (pic below). Equal sympathy to friend/mate and now into his 2nd season - Mr Rob Beves who had to pull out of this weekend due to a bad case of tennis elbow. 4-6 weeks recovery time - ouch.
If it's any consolation, I know how you feel about having to miss a few races.
So here we are - I was planning to be on the grid in June at Snetterton but that's not going to happen now.
I'm £11k deep into the car (over and above purchase price) and nowhere near my nervous first green-flag lap.
Why? Well, leaving aside the deeply unsuitable timing of the credit-crunch and the impact on my sales bonus, I can't find a blasted seat which will sit me low-enough in the car, and secondly, there's still something major to sort out with the rear suspension.
Back to the seat issue, I've gone back to Elgan (Hot_Lap) to see if we can raise the harness bar by 20mm. At present levels, it's the perfect height for wearing without a HANS device - I can tighten the belts so tight I can hardly breathe - but adding the HANS device means the belts travel some 20mm-25mm higher over my shoulders. As the harness bar is so close to the shoulders in the Elise, it means there's a *little* too much pressure on my shoulders. So, Tuesday Elgan is due to call with a date (I hope) can get the car up to his to sort this out.
In the meantime I've been busy with a house-move (goodbye single garage, hello big double heated garage with electic door yay!) and mainly tending to a newer mahoosive garden (we haven't moved yet but these duties for the vacant property have already fallen to me).
So we had a beautiful day today cutting grass and planting vegetables at the new house; which has a stunning garden. The chrysanthemum's inparticular, are quite something.
PS: First race is now Donington on August 15th (damn you Mr C. Crunch)
Just seen the results come in for the A1 Gp meet at Brands and top work to Mr Stanley and Mr Pitch for excellent drives (Ben especially). Equal sympathy to Chris Randall who after an astonishing winter-build had created a fantastic Europa race car, only for it to be punted into the barrier at Druids on it's 4th race outing - Chris here's hoping you can get the thing mended (pic below). Equal sympathy to friend/mate and now into his 2nd season - Mr Rob Beves who had to pull out of this weekend due to a bad case of tennis elbow. 4-6 weeks recovery time - ouch.
If it's any consolation, I know how you feel about having to miss a few races.
So here we are - I was planning to be on the grid in June at Snetterton but that's not going to happen now.
I'm £11k deep into the car (over and above purchase price) and nowhere near my nervous first green-flag lap.
Why? Well, leaving aside the deeply unsuitable timing of the credit-crunch and the impact on my sales bonus, I can't find a blasted seat which will sit me low-enough in the car, and secondly, there's still something major to sort out with the rear suspension.
Back to the seat issue, I've gone back to Elgan (Hot_Lap) to see if we can raise the harness bar by 20mm. At present levels, it's the perfect height for wearing without a HANS device - I can tighten the belts so tight I can hardly breathe - but adding the HANS device means the belts travel some 20mm-25mm higher over my shoulders. As the harness bar is so close to the shoulders in the Elise, it means there's a *little* too much pressure on my shoulders. So, Tuesday Elgan is due to call with a date (I hope) can get the car up to his to sort this out.
In the meantime I've been busy with a house-move (goodbye single garage, hello big double heated garage with electic door yay!) and mainly tending to a newer mahoosive garden (we haven't moved yet but these duties for the vacant property have already fallen to me).
So we had a beautiful day today cutting grass and planting vegetables at the new house; which has a stunning garden. The chrysanthemum's inparticular, are quite something.
PS: First race is now Donington on August 15th (damn you Mr C. Crunch)
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