I said to myself this year will be the year I use the car on track more than ever but I haven't been out yet, trying to save to buy my first house doesn't help mind!
Anyway tomorrow I'm going to get stuck in and work on the car.
One major issue is no brake bias, was locking rears a lot at Rockingham without braking particularly heavily (although it was wet so that obviously added to it) due to running 30mm billet axle spacers my self-test would constantly lock the wheels up and absolutely couldn't have that so I remember pulling both the green 30a abs pump fuse and pink 3a module fuse so thinking (and I may be very wrong) but if I replace the 3a I 'may' have the bias working again, if not I have a non-abs mk4 Master Cylinder and matching Servo but will need to get new lines made up.
Gathered some bargain goodies and selling stuff that's being replaced to mainly fund new tyres but also some toward future track days.
First off is my Sparco Rev's, they're very narrow and although light as feck 6kg, my love handles don't agree now and I'm getting back ache from my shoulders being so squashed so they're up for sale and two wider Cobra Imola Pro's going in with much better support! these are 8kg each and almost brand new out a rally car, got one in before the light failed today and get the other in tomorrow on fixed new alloy side mounts (which should offset the weight difference a bit)
nothing to hoover up after taking the cushion out adds to the fact they've had very little use
needed to remove the side hole trims so the bolts could line up
Next up wheels. Earlier in my thread I bagged a steal on ebay for a set of mint condition 15" 7J ford 'momo arrow type' alloys in KTM orange wrapped in R888's GG tyres.
Although they're awesome in may ways they're over 16kg each, I imagine most due to the width (and that with half worn tyres) so wanted to revert to lighter oem puma wheels. I've had 9-spokes and went clown crazy on a set of fan type's so especially with Stewarts recommendation a managed to bag a set of straight and true F1's with 6mm TR1's for £30! These weigh 14kg.
So the 'oranges' are going so are my current speedlines and these two will easily fund a new set of AD08R's
centre cap weight so they may stay off
Front bumper coming off tomorrow, modified 'bumper splitter' going on (so real splitter support rods can go through) other seat going in, TR1 coming off the F1's and may make a start with refurbishing, also upgrading the ignition system, got some 8mm magnecor leads and genuine motorcraft plugs (these produce a greater spark with 1.3mm gap although coilpack life depreciates)
