tooquicktostop Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Have to admit I've been dying to do the Marham day, but after seeing that I'm not so sorry I missed it. Well the plan is simple, build a powerful track car for the September Marham day As above, I was so gutted to miss this day, I would have been gutted to take the car out after being away for 9 months rebuilding to have it come back looking like this, note to self use the NA for track days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 My car looks nothing like that ! If you don't get too close to other cars and move over to the centre on the straights yo are fine. you could always take preventative measures like tape the front faces of your paintwork if you are bothered by it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keancy Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 damn i cant believe you guys are still using :d:d:d smileys after that lol id be crying Same here after some of the pebble dash I seen on some of the Car's. Going to cost some of you a load of money to put right. Hope it was worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd-mkiv Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Worked out very expensive for me an I hardly went on the track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike B Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Here is pic of what the front bumper went through. Show us a pic of the back bumper too Ash. Rumour has it you did quite a bit of the track backwards again this year? Fantastic 2 days, got some superb in car footage, 15gb worth. Plastic black bumper so my car looks no different, slicks worked brilliantly, and just sorry I had to leave just as that big rainstorm came though... had to see a man about a dog you understand.... LOL at Michel pulling his gearstic off. I have the footage of him doing it right infront of John and I on track, and worse still, staggering around the paddock as we pulled in, a look of total shock on his face waving his sevored gearstick around... priceless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike B Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 damn i cant believe you guys are still using :d:d:d smileys after that lol id be crying The car is for using, not polishing! and there is NOWHERE you can dick around with 600 hp quite as wrecklessly as Marham, big thanks to Si for organising it. And they raise 20k? for charity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshBhp Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 The car is for using, not polishing! Agreed, UKRich would have had a heart failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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uk-rich Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 shut it , im in a pissed state at the mment, glad you had a good day though ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcgoo Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 My car looks nothing like that ! If you don't get too close to other cars and move over to the centre on the straights yo are fine. you could always take preventative measures like tape the front faces of your paintwork if you are bothered by it I have done this event 5 or 6 times now, yeah there are alot of stones flying around and yeah you will get stone chips but if you don't drive up peoples arses and offset yourself from the car in front its not too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 well lady luck was not shining on me this weekend, total disaster started with losing my brakes saturday, finally got them sorted but the track closed for the day, then sunday morning on the way to marham pig hit a pheasant and it bounced of him straight into me cracking my week old new bumper, managed to get 2 laps in then the car just died, it was where pig (my passenger) was trying to brake on the corners and in doing so it must have knocked a wire out of the ecu, but ryan g was on hand and that got sorted, then he road mapped it to make sure all was fine, so i did a few more laps as the black clouds loomed, so i thought feck it i am going home, i am now sitting here wrapped in bubble wrap waiting for the next stroke of bad luck:D i must say it was great meeting old and new members and sharing 2 massive hangovers with them;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike B Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 it was where pig (my passenger) was trying to brake on the corners and in doing so it must have knocked a wire out of the ecu classic.... you earned quite a bit of respect for the emergency stop you performed considering you had no brakes! Si and I were sat 3 cars back from Pig on the start line and, minutes after Ryan mapped his launch control, he decided to treat the 10 marshalls stood at the track entrance to a good flaming. Good to see they saw the funny side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymdee Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 ...total disaster started with losing my brakes saturday...on the way to marham pig hit a pheasant and it bounced of him straight into me cracking my week old new bumper, managed to get 2 laps in then the car just died, it was where pig (my passenger) was trying to brake on the corners and in doing so it must have knocked a wire out of the ecu... Gaz, I cannot believe your bad luck!! I think going home is probably the best thing TBH if it was raining Top man for bringing a Fire Extinguisher for me. Great club spirit in the face of all the adversity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 well lady luck was not shining on me this weekend, total disaster started with losing my brakes saturday, finally got them sorted but the track closed for the day, then sunday morning on the way to marham pig hit a pheasant and it bounced of him straight into me cracking my week old new bumper, managed to get 2 laps in then the car just died, it was where pig (my passenger) was trying to brake on the corners and in doing so it must have knocked a wire out of the ecu, but ryan g was on hand and that got sorted, then he road mapped it to make sure all was fine, so i did a few more laps as the black clouds loomed, so i thought feck it i am going home, i am now sitting here wrapped in bubble wrap waiting for the next stroke of bad luck:D i must say it was great meeting old and new members and sharing 2 massive hangovers with them;) That car is jinxed:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 My front bumper looks similar to Ash's as did a few others, front wings also peppered and also got a few here and there down the sides of the car as well! It only needed 2-3 seconds of following someone down the straight to to the main damage... looks like a bumper respray at least for me. Also need the side skirts removing and repairing and a geometry check after having an 'off' onto the grass. Still worth it though, had a great time! Will post my in-car footage when I get back to home base tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Worked out very expensive for me an I hardly went on the track What happened mate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Well that for me is all a bit naff. I'd seriously expect a working airfield to be spotless. Lets face it I sit and listen to FOD (foreign object damage) lectures on a weekly basis. I have been on multiple FOD sweeps of many a runway and they have sweepers on them every morning. I refuse to accept that a tornado bases runway was covered in gravel. All I can assume is they routed you through the carpark or something like that. Put it another way I did an airfield day on a disused ww2 yank airfield that never gets any fod sweeps and not a single chip on any ones paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 That car is jinxed:( its not the car its me:blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan.G Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Just got back, what another day! After Tony, wes and I fitted him a new radiator onto wes's after going all the way back to oxford he was back in action and Damn can that thing go round a corner. Then the clouds headed in and as the kit car had some fun in the morning we decided to call it a day and head home....... Then i got a call for Wes saying "Pitcrew please turn round" We arrived back at the gate to see that the nice humps on the entrace to marham has ripped his entire exhaust off back from the down pipe We had a go at refitting but the metal was too mashed to rejoined so it was an AA job Poor old Tony was underneith cars nearly all weekend. But made the club proud by fixing all the problems except Wes's exhaust. If we had a welder im sure he would have though The front of the mine was chipped as well but for the fun i had i couldn't care if it needed a full respray. Ryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan.G Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Worked out very expensive for me an I hardly went on the track Lesson never to buy 2nd hand clutches John when you get time send us a copy or post on here our fun in the F27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 What happened mate? Lesson never to buy 2nd hand clutches That explains it then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 My exhaust cought that one too when I went out to refuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Back home and knackered. I have a rubbish little vid that was filmed by a passenger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvsehxfWJog All went smoothly for me apart from a boost leak. Should begetting 1.45 but was getting 1.3 on sat and down to just over a bar on sunday. Car stone chipped really badley, the roof even more dented by that dam bird and a scratch on the wing/bumper from a slight cone incident Had a fantastic time despite being hung over all the time and gutted for gaz. Thanks again colsoop for lending me your slicks (definatly getting some) they were amazing. Managed to get the needle past straight down when using the slicks, amazing how much speed you can take round the corner and into the straight! And ofcourse thanks to ryan for me improved fuel economy and extra noise Got a better vid being emailed over in the next few days. Thanks to Si and all the other RAF bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd-mkiv Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Lesson never to buy 2nd hand clutches John when you get time send us a copy or post on here our fun in the F27 Will do mate, its come out really well. I was supprised to see the camera still attached when we got back in the pits Dont think ill be using a motocross helmet in one of them again though was picking dirt out of my eyes for the rest of the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymdee Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 My exhaust cought that one too when I went out to refuel And me on the way home. Really sudden drop and I tried to go over it at 1mph too! Fortunately, no damage for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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