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Re: My Mk. 1 RS1600 race car
Tom - thanks. I've got a clearance from eligibility to race on the 15's for this season until I get new 13's over the winter. When we get them, we'll work on steering geometry as Retromotorsport said and bend a few steering arms.
The diff is still at Grandma's in Yorkshire - somebody will be coming to England later this year, I hope, so they can bring it back. If not, we'll post it.
By my calcs, not allowing for any loss in the system, with the 4.1 the top speed at 8500 revs will be about 139 - based on a 13 in wheel and 205mm 60% ratio I get a wheel diameter of 22.6 inches - Yoko racing tyres are 22.7 so I'm pretty close. I think 139 is probably fast enough - the Elva goes much faster but it has a basic aero design so it does clamp down to the track at high speed - you can't say that about a RS1600.
Young Walt's (he's 25 by the way so hardly "young") video is good, isn't it. The track was really flooded so the first lap they all went crazy - you saw the spinning Ginettas. Then they all scared themselves and slowed down a bit. It then rained for 18 hours more and I went out, without camera, on the Sunday morning - I'll swear the guys at the back of the grid were in canoes!
Walt
Tom - thanks. I've got a clearance from eligibility to race on the 15's for this season until I get new 13's over the winter. When we get them, we'll work on steering geometry as Retromotorsport said and bend a few steering arms.
The diff is still at Grandma's in Yorkshire - somebody will be coming to England later this year, I hope, so they can bring it back. If not, we'll post it.
By my calcs, not allowing for any loss in the system, with the 4.1 the top speed at 8500 revs will be about 139 - based on a 13 in wheel and 205mm 60% ratio I get a wheel diameter of 22.6 inches - Yoko racing tyres are 22.7 so I'm pretty close. I think 139 is probably fast enough - the Elva goes much faster but it has a basic aero design so it does clamp down to the track at high speed - you can't say that about a RS1600.
Young Walt's (he's 25 by the way so hardly "young") video is good, isn't it. The track was really flooded so the first lap they all went crazy - you saw the spinning Ginettas. Then they all scared themselves and slowed down a bit. It then rained for 18 hours more and I went out, without camera, on the Sunday morning - I'll swear the guys at the back of the grid were in canoes!
Walt
Sounds and looks sweet mate 
....lucky with the wee slide 
Might be a gumbie question but I'm asking it anyway!
Gary
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