GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

[azz259]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

well done on the win Gavin

[Tazman]

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Nice one Gavin.

Shame I'm not closer to help with your re-builds

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

Only 2 months behind, some in car from the Middlewick Stages

Stage 2

Stage 4

Stage 6

Stage 8

[RWD fords rule]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

That's a quick car mate, like the vidoe's and the clean driving

Congrats with the win and hopefully many more to come

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

I arrived home tonight to find something rather large and shiny waiting for me





Shouldn't have any trouble with overheating now, I just hope I can squeeze it in as it's a 60mm core...

[Paul C]

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Very nice Gavin. Have you seen your seeding for Woodbridge? The filling in a Focus WRC sandwich!

[GavinR]

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Very nice Gavin. Have you seen your seeding for Woodbridge? The filling in a Focus WRC sandwich!

Yes I just saw that - should be interesting

[Paul C]

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Yes I just saw that - should be interesting

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Good luck for the event Gavin. Should be a lot of fun chasing the WRC's - no pressure!!

[GavinR]

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Since I've had these throttle bodies, I've had a few problems with the linkage and the balance bar slipping. AT Power are going to send me their new design of a slotted tube instead of the current holed tube, but as the balance was fine at the end of the last event, I've drilled and pinned the current bar. I was only going to use one pin but found a couple of cracks (highlighted in black) so added another one




I've also bought a Jenvey Throttle linkage with their DCOE mount (from Balance Motorsport who were a lot cheaper than anyone else) and it fits perfectly with a longer rod between the ball joints




Today I had a look at fitting the rad, without the engine I had to take measurements from Fly and decided there's no way it would fit on the normal mounts without fouling the water pump, so it needed to sit further forward. Trimmed the slam panel first


Then removed the rad cut out and folded the rest flush with the front panel


After a bit of trimming to the radiator sides, it fits perfectly about 20mm in front of the rad mounts and this should give plenty of room for the fan






Also, the oil tank is back in the boot and the pipes laid through the car, I need to make some new mounts for the oil cooler and she'll be ready for the engine to go back in just before Woodbridge

[mexicotait]

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what size fan did you go for gav?

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

Hi,

It's just what Radtec supplied with the radiator, I decided it was easier and would be properly mounted, it's a 12" SPAL fan

Thanks

[cossie matt]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

Good choice on the setup Gav

That's pretty much the same setup as mine, 60mm core rad and a 12" Spal fan, both Midsummer Caerwent and Richard Burns were very hot, especially Caerwent and it was good as gold.

Matt

[GavinR]

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Engine back in and running, started first time

[mexicotait]

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Cheers gave ill get mine ordered

[GavinR]

Re: GavinR's Mk2 Stage Car - DVY

Engine back in and running, started first time

So everything was ready for the Huttons Kitchens Woodbridge Stages on Sunday 26/09/11, passed scrutineering Saturday night, met up with Cath who was codriving on this one, and got ourselves organised for the event

Seeded car 2 behind Nigel Mummery's Focus WRC and ahead of Peter Elkins Focus WRC, it was going to be an interesting day with 6 stages planned, each about 11 miles long

Stage 1 started well but when we got round for the second lap the water temp got very hot and water starting coming out of the cap and getting onto the windscreen, I tried the wipers but that made it worse and the windscreen steamed up so we backed off a bit until I could see again. By the end of the stage, steam was coming from everywhere and we were caught on the finish line by Peter Elkins even though he had started a minute behind us

Back in service, we let everything cool down before adding a lot of water and making sure all the air was out of the system. I assumed the head gasket had gone again, but we decided to try Stage 2 to see what happened, but after the first lap the temp gauge was off the scale so we called it a day

Many thanks to Cath for coming down for the day