WooHoo !!

Better to just throw it sideways and drift round the hairpin, good it you get it right but you look a right tit in front of the stand full of spectators if you lose it onto the grass on the inside and get stuck.

A 7's not fun unless it's sliding :-) You might as well get rid of the rollbar to reduce the weight, it's not going to do much to protect you if you have an accident. What engine to you have in it?

Homer.

The rollbar is being replaced with a pukka FIA spec bar with rear braces, a diagonal and a petty strut. The current tyres are no good 15" Marshall jobs and the slicks are coming with the minilites, so I might as well give them a go. Personally I would rather have better grip in the high speed corners than I have just now. A bootfull of throttle will always get it a bit slidy in the slower stuff. Engine is a 1640 xflow with big valve head and webers. All classic clockwork stuff.

Drove mine today for the first time, sans bodywork, It's weird sat 3 inches off the deck :)

Bob Sherunckle raved thus:

:: And this is why it will slide less at the next track night ;-) ::

Saw your post over on locostbuilders - won't be long now :-)

Indeed you are - at these ones anyway. Did I mention that htese trackdays are 38 quid ?

Oh, I think I did ;-)

Sounds a bit more affordable than the 150 for the hillclimb day mentioned here recently. I meant to ask what the hillclimb day involved for that amount of cash, as I'm sure you can get a basic license for that sort of money.

Still, I think taking a tired 36 year old small saloon round a trackday would be the height of silliness!

How about an 8 year old diseasel estate? :-))

Peter

In article , snipped-for-privacy@WithThanks.com spouted forth into uk.rec.cars.modifications...

At the Saab day, there was a 9-5 Aero estate keeping up with some of the slower saloons (it was standard they were modified) until something went pop in a serious way, and it limped into the paddock. Checked it out and had no compression on 3 cylinders. He was waiting for the man in the big yellow truck in the end.

Bob Sherunckle raved thus:

::: Are you allowed the slicks at track days? ::: ::: :: :: :: Indeed you are - at these ones anyway. Did I mention that htese :: trackdays are 38 quid ? :: :: Oh, I think I did ;-)

Cool! And that's a silly price! I'd be there all the time...

Apparently on date Wed, 9 Jun 2004 00:04:19 +0100, "Stuffed"

It seems to me to be more sensible than taking a two year old prestige car, if only for the consideration that a shunt at speed is far less likely to hit your pocket, and the speed you crash at will be that much slower.

hey for that price i'd keep the MK1 to rag at weekends lol

That £150 wasnt just a few go's up the hill, it was a full on drving school with tuition and stuff too. Of course its all privately owned land so its always worth asking for a go on the cheap :)

My old housemate used to rally his 30 year old car :)

Makes more sense than my underbraked, 60hp ton of frighteningly basic thing!

Although all round independent suspension does mean it does quite well, and the old rubber on each corner makes it very easy to feel the limits, even if said limits are a little low compared to, say, an elephant on a pogo stick.