Stylussprinter's Stylus

[Stylussprinter]

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Sounds like the same problem Sambo's having with his starter at the moment.

Is it a geared starter ? That was my problem , using an after market starter and not measuring properly first time ! Fortunately the front plate of the starter comes off(it's there for adjustability of fitment)so the body of the starter can be machined just the amount that the cog didn't engage into the ring gear .

[Stylussprinter]

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Made one or two minor adjustments ready for Goodwood on 6th Aug. B&H MC sprint . There's no testing at Goodwood before then so have booked a General Test Day at Mallory for £30 less . Only snag being it's morning session only for cars then bikes in the afternoon . So will be leaving at 6-00am to get up there for 8-00am signing on . Never driven Mallory so it'll be an education for me !!!
At least I'll be able to feel the car out before Goodwood plus brush off some ' rust ' from the driver !

Rain was forcast but it stayed dry during my sessions at 9-00 , 10-00 and 11-00am . Quite different to Goodwood's very efficient system , no briefing , no sound test ---- just a loud speaker telling us it was time for our half hour session. In fact due to engine noise around the paddock I didn't catch where they said we should come off the track but assumed it would be obvious once out there. It wasn't ---- after 12 or so laps and having a 2 gallon tank I thought I'd better get in for a refuel but went round a further twice before twigging where to come off
I still had an issue with starting once during the day but otherwise the car was fine but the steering seemed mighty heavy through the esses and the hairpin , it's so much tighter around Mallory than Goodwood where I normally go .
I found Gerrards the most difficult to get around quickly and was passed by plenty of other cars through there but the rest was a real blast , absolutely loved the Esses , Hairpin and the exit onto the pit straight. By my third session I sort of had Gerrards nailed and was only passed by a Silluette car that seemed glued to the tarmac.
Two Lotus Cortina's were going pretty quickly but the car I used to learn the track was an MGA who's driver had raced it for 25 yrs and had data logging on board . He was trying to do sub 55's because in his Championship the guy leading was on 54's around Mallory. First session I couldn't stay with him but by the third session he was following me onto the track and got quite close but didn't get by me through Gerrards or anywhere else so I was reasonably happy with that , having never driven it before. Talking to him in the paddock , it seemed he was doing sub 55 sec's following me so although I had no one clocking me , I assumed I must have been around the 55 to 56 mark by the end of the morning.
I've no idea what I should have been doing in my type of car but I'd need a lot more track time there to go much quicker

[Stylussprinter]

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The B & H MC Eagle Sprint on the 6th of August is nearly upon me and the finals arrived today . It seems my friend in the Escort spaceframe hasn't entered --- a shame . However , there are two others in my class that I've never come acrosss before .

Hugh Maund in a TRIUMPH V8 4500cc previously done a 96 sec lap at Goodwood
Glenn Mason in a GT40 V8 5000cc previously done a 98 sec lap at Goodwood

So definitely a new challenge seeing as I haven't managed a sub -- 96 sec lap for some time now (96.26sec's in June this year)

[Stylussprinter]

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After getting the ' finals ' in the post I looked on B& HMC website and saw there were three late entries , all Mazda RX7 5.7lt Chevy's , actually one is 6lt !!! So that's five big power V8's plus me .

[Stylussprinter]

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After getting the ' finals ' in the post I looked on B& HMC website and saw there were three late entries , all Mazda RX7 5.7lt Chevy's , actually one is 6lt !!! So that's five big power V8's plus me .

1st in class at Goodwood was an RX7 6lt Chevy at 91 something sec's (didn't get a time sheet issued so will check on their website B&HMC once it's updated.) After a real battle with the other 4 V8's , I managed to a 96.04sec's for 2nd in class over the rest with one of the other RX7 Chevy's just 0.08sec's behind me . On that run I was out of gear for 200yds entering no name in 5th looking for 4th but couldn't select it so grabbed 3rd . On the approach to no name and the St Mary's entry , I could just see the roof of the GT40 disappearing down into the dip after St Mary's so then knew I was quicker than him which gave me the push I needed to take more risk ---- what I didn't know until my son walked up with the time card was that I'd also just beaten the other RX7's who were in front of me before this last run.
So that's my 3 year unbeaten record at Goodwood soundly beaten , had to happen sometime aye

[alladdin]

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good effort never the less

[exboyracer]

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Fantastic bit of giant-killing there, well done

[Retromotorsport]

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congratulations on a fine result

[Stylussprinter]

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Thanks guys for the encouraging words . Actually , after having had several people telling me that 2nd was a good result , I feel quite good about the result plus it made me realise that had I not made mistakes like being out of gear in the middle of ' no name ' , there is a 95sec's in me when I get the right motivation . Winning by big margins ie 3sec's as in past years , tends to make you lazy .
It certainly helps when you are the 2nd car to leave the startline --- when the green light comes up and the previous car is still in sight entering Madgewick !!!

So that's it now for me till 2012 apart from a friendly sprint at RAF Odiham without championship points . Should be nice long straights there so roll on Sept 3rd !!!

[Stylussprinter]

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Got the entries list now which shows 4 in Sports Libre . A Metro 6R4 , a Chevette 3.9lt , a Fiesta 2lt plus me in the Stylus 2lt. That's entries so far but could well be more by next week . There are some big guns there in the single seater classes from SBD and other British Sprint/Hillclimb champ's . It's a charity event in as much as we all pay a contribution via the entry fees , to the RAF benevolent fund .

[exboyracer]

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Good luck!

[Stylussprinter]

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Wow , what a course Odiham was !!!! Sure , there were straights but there were also more coned out corners than I could remember how to approach --- memory tells me around 15 !!!! I went straight through the cones just one corner from the finish on two of the 5 laps aloud . So got soundly beaten by all the others in my class until my very last run which got me 2nd in class at 143.14sec's but the 6R4 on slicks wiped 3 sec's off me !!! so was 1st in class ---- he's never beaten me in 7 or 8 years over many other courses when I was doing full seasons of 15 events . At least HE went home with a smile on his face.
Lots of fun though , for two thirds the course I was in 2nd and 3rd gears on the limiter at times (8000rpm) . Never got into 5th and only 4th once for 1/3rd mile .

[Stylussprinter]

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I didn't intend entering any more in 2011 but having been beaten by the 6R4 , I've been tempted into running against him again at the Eelmoor Sprint Royal this next Sunday 9th Oct . Of course Eelmoor is where I managed to hit a tree , doing very expensive damage a few years ago ---- never sprinted there since either . Just after submitting my entry a Warrior Indy 6.7lt 4x4 has also entered !!!!!
Perhaps I should have left the Stylus in the shed ------ just hope it stays dry

[Stylussprinter]

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A great day , wet to start but dried out later in the day and the sun came out . First practice saw me level pegging with my class at a very tentative 61 sec's , we were all within tenths . Second practice it had dried a little but still wet under the trees through the crossover esses. I did a 56 plus sec's which put me in the top 10 from 83 entries and first in my class . The first timed run was on a totally dry warm track so with showers being a possibility this run had to ne my banker . I was now confident with no gremlins lurking from my ' tree ' fiasco in 2007 and managed a 54.9 sec's run which didn't get bettered by me over the next 3 timed runs nor did my class mates. At this stage I was 2nd overall behind a much modified Skyliner from 83 entries. The track stayed dry but not so warm and I ended up 4th overall and won my sports libre class .
The guys inbetween FTD and my 4th were a well pedalled Westy and a very quick MGB 400bhp on slicks in the sports modified class.
That's it for me now so I'll have to wait and see if the other guys do well at Lydden which I'm not entering( pennies short)
There's just a chance I could win the class Championship in 2011

[exboyracer]

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Good stuff