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That's a very comprehensive racing CV! XR2 sounds like it would go straight into the Cannon's Tin Tops who I've raced with at Brands, they're a BARC South East series so stay local: http://www.barcsoutheast.co.uk/about.php

I went the 'quick and dirty' route of just pulling out the arch liners. I don't doubt there are negative side effects for this but, for me, the positive of getting air moving in the wheel well outweighed them. I do have ducting and plans for getting it all set up a bit neater (though not to the...

I have a lightly modified (KTEC coilovers, stripped interior, rear ARB) Phase 1 172 ('99 so the version before your car). I also am a regular at Brands as I'm local and it's a track only car (though still road legal). I struggled with brake temps the first couple of times out, and that was even...

Hi Mark, I think we raced at Brands together last year, you were out in the Spyder, I was in the orange mini. You sticking with SEMSEC or considering BARC SE (Tin Tops/QMN)? Lydden kills tyres, particularly the n/s front, I think its the poor surface and Chessons drift in particular. I reckon...

Re: sonny172cup "track racer project" I reckon... it's a race car, you should only worry about cosmetics when you've had a coming together with armco/another competitor/all of the above.... ;)

Re: sonny172cup "track racer project" maybe worth giving them a call if you do fancy it, I've guested with them in the mini before now running under the regs from their other series (InterMarque for anything goes spaceframe specials). There's also the QMN champioship but you'd be nearer the...

Re: sonny172cup "track racer project" Hi Sonny, it's Chris (from OPL). Well done on getting your first race in the bag, you're now on the learning curve which, from my experience, never actually ends but adds a whole new dimension that track days simply can't ever give you. Looks like you were...

Sadly true - we sold some of the older parts from our race car over the winter and couldn't believe the money we got for them on eBay. An original 1970's chronometric tach went to someone in Japan for over £500, likewise our old head went to Malaysia for good money too.

If you're interested, we're selling the Force Racing converted wheels from our car. You can spray the centres any colour you want obviously (currently blue!). They're 7" wide, let me know if you're interested, more details on the thread I started on my car...

Trouble is you need an awful lot of them to get real performance! Good luck with the project Tunst, always good to see an old mini given a new lease of life.

Plenty of Escorts ended up with V8's in the front and raced very successfully e.g. Peter Thurston's old car: Just trying to work out where this would race, a very limited number of series that would accept it.... Hang on, Google says it's been out in Castle Combe Sports and GT's.

I'm not in IT so know nothing about the implementation but my company uses it and, as a user, I'm pretty happy with it. Means I don't need to carry round a Blackberry as well as my personal phone. It's pretty basic and there are some sync issues but overall I find it very handy. Only real...

You might be interested to know that the black mini in front of me at the start is a semi space frame with a Honda lump in the front, very quick little car.

I raced with the migs this year at the Brands mini festival, great racing. They have a guest class now for cars that aren't to series spec. Even though I have a 1380 and LSD, which should give me an advantage over the spec cars, I was still half a second off the front runners which, in such a...

Finally have a camera setup that can cope with the vibration, some footage from my race at Brands Hatch yesterday, a good start (helped by some spinners at Paddock) making up 6 places by Druids, then end up having a good scrap with some French shopping trolley... ;) http://youtu.be/pl7aQaJCYAk