calder

did i see that car in the scooby net for sale section a little while back? Good luck j-k and arron and welcome j-k and welcome back arron to the bottomless money pit of motorsport! (Make an accurate budget then double it!). Seriously i hope it all goes well for you. I know the cars are very different and Arron knows his stuff but if you need another car to look at for an example of installation of cage, cut-out, fx etc let me know and i can bring the beemer along if it's useful. Also Eta Motorsport that put the cage in for my bm only charged £150 for fitting the cage (WRX could well be more) and is in Gravesend - can give you details if you're not doing this yourselves? They're BMW race specialists, not Impreza rally but could be useful to you? cheers, Richard PS would you be interested in talking about tow cars and trailers?

I'm over 30 (but i don't look it) Pele can you let me know if i need to pay the rest - sorry couldn't make the meet last friday due to other commitment. cheers, richard

over steer - the back end snapped round and i couldn't catch it. The car is facing the wrong way round on the circuit. The bend is a left hand bend that you approach from the left of the photos. Saturday 4th September was extremely hot which is my excuse for loosing concentration and i may have miss timed bringing up the clutch on the heel & toe down shift causing driveline snatch, breaking the rear wheels away. And possibly going too fast.

I'll brace my self for 1 1/4hrs drive in the bm then. i'll have to tape a cd player and a tape deck to the dash to stop me going insane on the motoway

ok, now someone tell me how to put the pictures in the post rather than just the linksss, cos i forgot.

to prove that it wasn't just me:

For those of you that haven't seen the photos:

sorry, can't come, i'm off out racing again at Lydden trying to avoid bits of the scenery

Pele, would anyone mind if i bought my bmw along? Would power engineering be able to run rwd at the same time as 4wd? Hopefully the bmw wouldn't look too bad as the "economy" motorsport representative next to the WRC car. - I might make 129bhp flat out if i'm lucky. cheers

I should be along - after i've finished straightening out the beemer....

Put me down on the list Pele (just me), give you a tenner on Friday

Projects engineer for a healthcare products manufacturer. I get to spend the annual capital budget for the factory where i work on whatever they want like new machinery and facility upgrades. Usually spend most of my time wondering how to fit things in with less space and time than is needed whilst people want things quicker and cheaper. I occaisionally help out with Maintenance but i'm not actually allowed to use tools. Unpaid, self-funded racing driver at weekends

a couple of things i would add from experience, mostly with the bmw: take a torque wrench and the socket bits that you'll need for tightening wheel nuts (you'll also probably need a torque wrench if you do the brake pads prevously mentioned). Check the wheel nut torque before the first session and periodically thorugh the day. If the wheel nuts are not correctly torqued you could loose a wheel! Loosing a wheel is obviously pretty serious - it has happened to me once in the bmw and to two other people that i know of. Possible reasons for this are: nuts loose to start with, heat and stress causes things to loosen by differential expansion, incorrectly fitting alloys eg on spacers causing nuts/bolts to have less thread grip; badly fitting alloys are dangerous on road or track. also some alloys have a painted surface - there is a suspicion that this can loosen on the mating face with the hub and cause a loss of torque. The others that i know with the alloys that we got a deal on for the bmw's have sanded off the paint on the alloy hub face just in case. Also when checking fluid levels keep an eye on coolant level as well as temperature - a small coolant leak can quickly turn into a very big one. A big loss of coolant won't necessarlity show up as a big temperature rise although you would have thought so with the temperature sensor being steamed! all the best Richard

I'm in, calder