A race bmw 316, m10, s14, m20, turbo, na, its been the lot!

[Pushrod King]

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yeah snett should suit my car as long as i dont run out of revs, i raced at snett on the current gearing with the 8v but with another 35bhp i might see the limiter down the long straight, so i'll have to remember to take the laptop just in case!

i've got the legs on bill on the straights at brands and these days and can stay in touch in the bendy bits so hopefully snett go my way

Hope so, I need you to stop Bill getting points so that I can defend my 2nd position in the championship.

[caprimentle]

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i really must go down to one of these events, it always sounds so eventful, bad luck about the wall encounter but it is important to find the limit as you never know, it might of made the turn fine and you would of had bill!

also, absolutely love the way you sealed the oil leak, i would never of thought of that

i look forward to seeing the dent pulling, always fun to do once you get stuck it, its nice to hit the car with a hammer every now and then, remind it whos boss

[Graham]

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Hope so, I need you to stop Bill getting points so that I can defend my 2nd position in the championship.

sounds like a plan

[Retromotorsport]

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Congrats on continuing to a finish .. and good luck at Snett

[exboyracer]

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absolutely love the way you sealed the oil leak, i would never of thought of that

What he said ^

Nice result, next time try to cross the finish line backwards on the chequered flag lap

[david_white]

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Sorry i couldn't make it the race but sounds like you had a very good day and best of all finished the races, which with the old screen would have been less of a given..

I'm sure snett will favour your car more than bills so lets hope you can defend that championship position. Feel sorry for the front of your car though, seems to get all the punishment lately, I guess I'd better start work on the 2012 shell now so that this shell can retire gracefully at the end of the year.

[Tazman]

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nice report Graham,

It was a tad wet spectating, unfortunately I had to leave before you last race

all the best for Snet

[Graham]

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after pulling the front bumper off you can see the remnants of front panel are fubared, o/s chassis leg has gone up and back a bit, but as its only effected the crumple zone at its end i shall just bend it down for now, although the rads still got some water in it it is punctured rather than modify the car to take another rad it will prob just get a body filler repair for now

[robt100]

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Time to start work on the new shell in earnest perhaps?

[Graham]

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lack of time and funds holding the new shell up, its tough one, the more i work the more chance of having the money to do the shell but no time to do it and vicer versa.

what i really need to do it find a grand for a new cage, once thats in and the rear arches modified the shell could be pressed into service fairly quickly if needed

[M11rf]

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Full of drama!

At least the car isn't too bad Graham, and with your skills it should be back up and running in no time

[Toymex]

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What caused the dnf Graham nothing too serious i hope ,doesnt sound like a good weekend for Ts racers what with Nicks problems aswell

[Graham]

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it lost a couple of sump bolts so leaked oil, no actual damage, strange really, because there wasnt a hint of a leak from it during testing, practise or race 1, it didnt actually leak much what it did leak went all over the exhaust and made a lot of smoke, well untill i switched it off then it poured out!

[Graham]

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one bodyfiller repair on the rad
it passed a pressure test too teh filler certainly didnt effect the cooling, infact at snett i had to partly tape up the rad as the engine was running too cool

[Graham]

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race was on saturday, but i went up to snett on fri afternoon for a bit of testing, i say testing more circuit familiarization, if we had been on the old snet i would of been confident of getting the better of bill, but with sear now being turned into a nasty very low speed flip flap thing i wasnt sure, its both cut speed down the straights and is very tight, i knew that such tight corner would play well into bills hands his mini changes direction in an instant, out on track it was as i feared montreal as its now called is slow, heeling and towing into it is vital to smoothly drop from flat in 4th down to second once i got the hang of it, it was a quick pitstop to wind some more damping into the front as the car was still on the wets brands settings , it was going well although the backend was very wandery under hard braking, a few laps in i had a front end vibration, i'd done a wheel bearing, so that was the end of that.

in the pits i spotted the bias valve must of been knocked giving more rear brake, so that was a quick fix and fitted my spare wheel bearing, nothing much to report on the next session the car felt pretty good, brakes better and i was confident were i was going and where to brake, i was quite enjoying myself until a familiar rumble re appeared i'd done another bloody wheel bearing! either they are making theres bearing from rubbish or im carrying a lot more corner speed than i used to because e30 front bearings rarely wear out but i've gone through a several this year!