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So What’s been going on this winter?

Posted on February 11, 2008 by admin

After some gentle reminding, and indeed some firm poking with a sharp stick from various readers of this blog I thought I’d do an update and answer the question “What has been going on?”.  Indeed even Tim has been poked … Continue reading →

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Further work on the Diff.

Posted on November 8, 2007 by admin

While I’ve got the Diff unit out of the old cradle, and I’m while working on its mountings I thought I weigh it and see how much the thing weighs. So I dragged the bathroom scales down to the garage … Continue reading →

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Reverting back to old Diff

Posted on October 14, 2007 by admin

Well after four months of shaking off the disappointment of a season and development cycle wasted , I’ve decide that I do want to race again, and this year I’m going to be ready for the start of the season. … Continue reading →

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Long Time no Post- so what happened?

Posted on October 14, 2007 by admin

After the Brands meeting I took the racer to the following meeting a Mallory park in early June. Here again I suffered major overheating problems. Mallory is a lovely short circuit, I qualified last, and in the race I managed … Continue reading →

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Brands Data Logging + Bypass Cooling

Posted on May 27, 2007 by admin

Tim and I use the same data loggers and analog inputs so that we can share our data for comparison purposes. Tim had put together some graphs for comparison between us. My Laptime is 59.xx his was 54. and some … Continue reading →

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Testing and "Racing" at Brands

Posted on May 27, 2007 by admin

Not a great weekend, no major damage, but generally a bit disheartening in how slow Iwas but the car held together with only a few teething problems. Of most concern is it’s lack of straight line speed relative to a … Continue reading →

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Final Pre Race Setup before Testing

Posted on May 27, 2007 by admin

Well the final week before the Test at Brands passed pretty quickly and as usual I never got to do the everything on my to do list. For years I’ve been making lists about the car to make sure I … Continue reading →

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More progress to report :-)

Posted on May 11, 2007 by admin

First up I completed the wiring for the new rainlight that is now required by this year’s regulations, OOOOh look a glowing set of LEDS that look almost identical to the last set of glowing LEDS that were fitted there. … Continue reading →

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