my road rally mk2

[GavinR]

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Great result

[mexicotait]

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Just purchased a stage 3 head for a good price but will have to wait for house work to be finished before any more car work gets done

Having a strange problem with the car

If I go floor it it holds back unless I come off the throttle then back on again

Feels like it’s running out of fuel tried running both fuel pumps and it makes no difference

Fuel pressure is set at 2.5 psi is this enough
Not had chance to check the float level in the carbs yet either

[alladdin]

my road rally mk2

I would think if fuel issue then you should only see the problem after a sustained wot period ? Check butterfly not going over horizontal?


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[mexicotait]

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Will do cheers

[mexicotait]

my road rally mk2

New head turned up today
Looks very nice and a bit of a bargain too


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[Tom-mk2]

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They have really maxed-out on the inlet valve size there! It would be interesting to see what the porting looks like if you strip the valvetrain down :-)

[onecamohv]

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deburr the edges of those park plug holes! good job, whats the porting like? a good head is essential on an xflow, can transform or make shit of an engine

[mexicotait]

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Will do mark
Will try and get some photos of the porting later
Looks nice was apparently done by Vulcan

[mexicotait]

my road rally mk2

Well what a busy weekend


Spent Friday putting knobblies on and changing a front disc that had a few big cracks in it


Then up early on sat morning to help out with the rac rally of the tests
Had a few runs round the test at eastgate just to check it was all ok



Parked up with my mate Liam’s puma



Then after stopping In Corbridge for lunch we headed to harwood forest to marshal on the Roger Albert Clark rally



What an amazing event as usual
The top two Jason Pritchard and Marty McCormack were on an unreal pace
A couple of second splitting them then nearly
3 minutes back to Matt Robinson in third
The sound of full house bdas in the forest was just amazing topped off with Steve Perez stratos and Jimmy McRae v8 firenza


The second running of the stage was in full darkness and we had about 100 spectators where we were all really well behaved and did exactly as they were asked.

All in all a brilliant nights rallying


Headed home and spent Sunday dismantling my shed ready to move to our new house

Then headed out to kielder on Monday with my dad to go watch
Unfortunately Pritchard had gone out with halfshaft failure so Marty was left to just keep it on the road to take the win

Something I was very happy about as my regular navigator Hannah’s dad John Mckillop built the car for him


We went to watch at a downhill ninety right that caught out Adrian hethrington
In his borrowed mk2

He slid off and rolled narrowly voiding a bridge
They both got out unharmed but thought there rally was over but we managed to lift the car out of the ditch and get them going again

And a mk1 snapped its throttle cable and coasted to a halt where we watching luckily I had a spare in the car that I gave them and they continued and just managed to win there class
They bought me a pint at the finish too



Great four days of rallying the best rally In The world I’d say

It returns in 2019 so get out and watch or better still go and marshal
You won’t regret it.



The rally of the tests carried on until Sunday where it was won by John Abel in his Alfa


My mates Andy Beaumont and Andy fish were doing it in there sunbeam rapier h120 but didn’t even make the first test when the engine went sick and that was game over so a bad weekend for them.




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[mexicotait]

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Another road rally booked in on the 29 th of November

Shouldn’t really be doing it as I’m meant to be getting my house sorted and saving to start building a new garage

But it’s the last one of the year and should be a good route hope it doesn’t snow

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my road rally mk2

Clive elliot memorial rally

Starting in Stocksfield this was to be the last road rally of the series I compete in for the year.

Conditions were bad (which I like) with ice and snow covering most of the route so with some dmack knobblies on I was hoping I’d have a good steady run to the finish.


Picked my nav Ali up and headed to the start where there were some nervous faces among the starters and news came about one of the entrants had gone off the road on an icy patch on the way to the start
They were ok but his tr7 was a bit of a mess

We were running last on the road ( they are reversed seeded so that the experts are at the back in a hope that if the novices struggle they will have people to follow)
So waited till all the other crews set off and had a steady run out to tc 1.

My dad was marshalling this and he looked a bit uneasy and told me to take it steady and stay safe.

Off on our minute down the road to the first route check which none of the experts could find yet one novice did we left it knowing we needed to push onto the next tc or we would be losing loads of time. The roads were sheet ice in places but dry in others so you had to really be on the ball I was just trying to kelp it smooth using hi gears and just nipping the hbrake to get it turned in
Caught numerous cars as the people were really struggling and they all let us past until I got to a certain competitor in an anglia who is renowned for holding people up and sure enough he wouldn’t let us past. I backed right off after he was having moments trying to brake hard for every corner and locking up instead of just letting it flow and being smooth. He eventually went locked up on a 90 right and slid straight into the hedge not doing any damage but his ego maybe took the hit!

We pushed on having a few big slides and some scary moments but didn’t feel like we were going to well.

My good mates father and son Mick and josh Davison were car in front of me so we were having a good play with them but they were struggling on the Icy roads there proton understeering where my mk2 was just drifting nicely.

I was loving it sliding all over the place but I didn’t think we were going that well.

Davidson’s missed a route check meaning they had to spin round and go back.

We then got to the next control to see that we were first on the road and hadn’t dropped anytime.

The sections get tighter and tighter towards the end so I thought we would be struggling to keep it on the pace. Round the right sections was fine I could slide the car into most things and get away with it but it’s bloody scary when you’re doing 80 mph and the car suddenly snaps sideways!!!!


We carried on with a few more moments and pushing on where we could but being sensible where we needed to.

Had a big moment where we couldn’t stop for a downhill slight right into a hairpin left so I just threw it in on the hbrake and we were sliding backwards into first and just made it into the slot with no harm done.


Last section was really tight and the marshals couldn’t stop laughing as we snakes away from the start with wheel spin in every gear

Managed to get some power down round a tight twisty moors section that I know well sliding into the bends and drifting out lovely scary downhill hair in to a Ford (which was frozen solid) then up the other side to the last tc then to the finish.

Parked in the car park and fell over on the ice 😂


We were first ones back to the pub then a few minutes later Mick and josh turned up along with the rest
Loads of people were had been off but luckily no damage or harm had been done just plenty of stories.

Mick came over and said

“If you clean that you are either fxxxing nuts or a fxxxing hero”



It was the best night event I’ve ever done
Never been so sideways and used the hbrake so much.

When the results came out we had cleaned it with only the first RC missing which we argued about but as it didn’t effect the result it stood

First overall, first expert and only one clean all night

Thanks to Ali for a superb job on the maps all night and for laughing all night long as usual.


No events planned now as I have to stop playing with cars and get my house and garage sorted so I can play with cars more easily
😂



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[headbolt]

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well done sounds like a very enjoyable night was had and no damage always a huge bonus

[alancdavis]

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Great report ,,well done

[mexicotait]

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well done sounds like a very enjoyable night was had and no damage always a huge bonus

I don’t know how we got away without any damage
Had more moments in that rally than I had all year

[mexicotait]

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well done sounds like a very enjoyable night was had and no damage always a huge bonus

I don’t know how we got away without any damage
Had more moments in that rally than I had all year