Road Rally 205 GTi

[Arwel]

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Looking good Arwel - famous last words though - not worried about times??

Ha ha ha ha Yeah I know. I'll try not to let curiosity get the better of me tomorrow. I just want to do my own thing tomorrow and not worry about keeping ahead of anyone or hunting someone down.

On another note, recce went well today. Made a few amendments to the pacenotes and tried a few different lines so we should be all sorted.

[Arwel]

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Tour of Epynt all done and dusted. Finished 55th overall and 1st in class. It finally all came together today, no drama, no problems just neat and tidy all day and a great result.
Fantastic run event, even though we lost 3 stages due to a few nasty accidents, Port Talbot Motor Club did a fantastic job of keeping things going.
We head to Caerwent in 2 weeks time leading the class in the Welsh Championship and we'll look to extend that lead.

[Arwel]

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SS1 from Epynt. Beat 5 4WD turbo cars on this one so we didnt do to badly at all.

http://youtu.be/O1VP93Pr_vo

and a quick pair of shots, Thanks to Lyndon and Wayne for these. Top pics as usual

[Arwel]

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And SS6 for you all

http://youtu.be/Tv4uhSB65x0

[Arwel]

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Tour of Caerwent next weekend, should have a seeded entry list tomorrow. Little bit of work going on. Some rose jointed arms and a full check over and set up going on.

[MCURZON]

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Tour of Caerwent next weekend, should have a seeded entry list tomorrow. Little bit of work going on. Some rose jointed arms and a full check over and set up going on.

Looking forward to seeing an entry list. No doubt I will be pretty much at the back!

You're due a bit of luck there so fingers crossed!

[Arwel]

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Looking forward to seeing an entry list. No doubt I will be pretty much at the back!

You're due a bit of luck there so fingers crossed!

I think I'll be near the back aswell, never mind though, its where you finish that matters.. or so im told lol.

Hopefully we'll carry on from where we left off on the tour of epynt. Your new engine is going to be a little screamer isnt it.. should propel it along nicely.

[Arwel]

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We are car 63 for the Tour of Caerwent on Sunday. The car is still undergoing some fettling. The new rose jointed arms are on, front legs have been de assembled, cleaned and re fitted with new top mount bearings and new uprated mounts. The top mounts are being strengthened and a few little niggly things are being sorted. Geometry is to be set up aswell and then hopefully some testing tomorrow evening ahead of the weekend.

[Paul C]

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Not good, the results are showing Arwel as having retired after stage 1. Hope all is ok.

http://www.amcrallyresults.co.uk/

[Arwel]

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Total disaster Paul. Blew the inner cv to bits 500 yds into SS1. Lots of investigating to do to find out what exactly caused it as we have a few different theories at the moment.

[MCURZON]

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Unlucky dude, not a good day for pugs!

[Arwel]

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Not at all Matt. Onwards and upwards and we'll try again i Pembrey.

[Arwel]

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So the last week or so has been spent getting to the bottom of the shaft failure. The conclusion we came to was that we basically we made too much adjustment and in turn it had pulled the tripod in the inner cv on the long shaft way past the point of being able to cope. It broke under braking and on a down shift so when we had forces trying to slow the car against the forces going forward it became too much and popped one of the three bearing out of the cup and the other 2 followed. School boy error really but we'll learn from it and move on.

Car has now been re set with less camber so we'll do a few more test miles at the weekend ahead of The Bob Shaw Memorial Rally at Talbenny on the 13th of April. The long term plan is to get some 309 shafts or have a set made up so we can make more adjustment at a later date.

[MCURZON]

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Good stuff, glad it's fixed.

You travelling down Saturday or Sunday morning?

Cheers

[lee edwards]

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How much camber had you added?

Hope you've solved the issue