DW's (new?) Sierra 3dr YB race car

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Steady progress continues, we now have the extinguisher fitted along with its cables, just waiting for some new pipe to plumb it all in, which is pretty straight forward.
Also fitted the drivers floor plate to raise the floor by about an inch. This is covered in grip tape and I've also stuck some of the tape to the passengers side to keep the floor tidy on that side for when we have a passengers seat on trackdays.

Pedals are all fully operational now and final fine tuning of the throttle and clutch cables is complete. The brake pedal now has its clip and spacer fitted to the pushrod and brake pedal feels perfect

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Andys Dad John has made a box to cover the fuel lines and fuel filler in the boot. The push on fittings and filler neck are not allowed to be open inside the car so this box seals it all off nicely.

We have now tested both the low and high pressure fuel systems and apart from one braided line doing a good impersonation of a spinkler system (duly found and replaced, thank god ) all of the fuel system operated well

The black bracket on the rear panel is to support the weight of the whaletail via a rod bolted to the bottom of the tailgate.

[Toymex]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

looking good Dave will you be ready for trigs trackday for a shakedown

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

looking good Dave will you be ready for trigs trackday for a shakedown

Thats the aim, as long as i can get an exhaust on it, get it mapped and get any problems ironed out

[Toymex]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Good cant wait to see it in the flesh in my rear view mirror i wish ,have you ever driven coombe Dave i am not sure wether the nova will cope round there as the gearing is a bit short for brands i was hitting the limiter in 5th 2/3rds of the way down the straight so not sure what it will be like at coombe i dont want to kill it either as i want to enter the Llyden race

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Good cant wait to see it in the flesh in my rear view mirror i wish ,have you ever driven coombe Dave i am not sure wether the nova will cope round there as the gearing is a bit short for brands i was hitting the limiter in 5th 2/3rds of the way down the straight so not sure what it will be like at coombe i dont want to kill it either as i want to enter the Llyden race

It should be ok Jezza as they have a couple of chicanes at combe now to slow it a little. i have only driven it years ago without the chicanes but it is a fun circuit, you just have to watch out for some of the bumps on the straight
Be good to have a see your car there although I may have to remove my whale tail so that i can see you getting smaller
Have you done any more to yours, should go very well at Lydden i'd have thought

[Toymex]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

I have just got the new seal for the gearbox so i can put that on we are going to fit a slightly bigger flywheel and clutch i have a 190mm one at the moment but i am going to fit a 200mm one that i wrongly bought a while back it just means Andy is going to lighten a new flywheel for it ,he is also looking at trying to make a new quickshift for it as the gearchange is the worst thing on the car at the moment but i am not sure if that will be done in time i hope it will as i couldnt get 2nd at the hairpin at the top of the hill last time i was at llyden and i think it was costing a bit of time as it was coming off cam so was going a bit flat,there is talk of a new engine aswell but i am not sure when that will be done

[Toymex]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

i have just remembered we have got a lovely new BTB manifold aswell had a right stroke of luck a m8 phoned them on the off chance ,the chap said he had been clearing out the stores and had 2 old stock that we could have for a very reasanable price

[alex savill]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

BLOODY HELL , dave its been a while since i last saw your car and its come along way and she's nearly finished

[angliaant]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

is coming along proper now dave... well done... i really like the fuel filler box.
whats left then?
doors , exhaust and mapping?

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

whats left then?
doors , exhaust and mapping?

Exactly that, will try to get the car finished by saturday and ready to have the exhaust fitted after the weekend, then its a case of whenever it can be fitted in for mapping before the trackday

[penski]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

The car's come along great

A bit disappointed at the whale tail and lack of povo-spec grille though

*n

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

The car's come along great

A bit disappointed at the whale tail and lack of povo-spec grille though

*n

I get out voted on these sort of things but I do like the look with both grilles. The whaletail is quick (ish) release so that we can test with and without it

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Well she had a bit of a road trip today, well to the pavement at least We got the doors back on, windows and sliders in and the final cut out pull fitted.

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Windows went in a treat after a bit of trimming and we also went to Burtons and picked up a couple of silencers and a load of 2.5" pipe and bends. Hopefully enough to build a system.

We were going to recycle my old ashley 2 1/4 system from the zetec escort install but we couldn't get the bends we wanted apart from 2" or 2.5" but as it worked out the silencers we've bought look a better quality anyway and as they are new should last a while