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We're emigrating and I need to shift the Mrs' car..... we've got it up on autotrader at the moment, but thought I'd see if anyone on here is interested. (LINK) It's been a great little car in the 3 years we've had it and I can tell you confidently that it's a great handling car, I know Clio...

The fuel cap can be opened with almost anything that can fit in it! We took a little bit of steel, filed it in to an approximate key shape with a handle and have left it in there! James...see you Saturday! I'm well excited

Sorry to hear about the bump at snet....Looks like you've had a similar impact to what Ryan managed in quali for yesterday's tin tops race. He ripped the bumper skin off, it's currently cable tied in place! We're doing Birkett next week too, really looking forward to it. We're team no.66, the...

Not too bad, we managed to complete both races. I've updated the blog on the website....chaseracing.co.uk Photobucket was irritating me, so I haven't updated this thread

We've got RBF600 racing fluid, that's not the problem..... it's definitely the uneven cooling that's causing our problems as the outer pad had a bit of white / creamy residue as if it had oxidised a little. The pads still didn't fade though, there was plenty of friction still, but we definitely...

We're planning to totally upgrade the brakes system over winter, but at the moment we need a quick fix to our cooling issues, so it needs to be a standard size disc....

So, we've been trying to cool our brakes by vent air to the inside of the disc, but at Oulton Park (heavy on brakes) we began to overheat the brakes (Brembo HC discs and Ferodo DS3000 pads) and we believe this to be because the venting of the disc is not affective for our type of use. I have...

We had our own cat and wanted a system that worked with the 182 manifold.... We ended up getting a selection of custom bits from jetex and welded them together and it works really well. There should be some pics of it on our build thread

Here's my qualifying stint from the weekend.... lap 5 was the quickest one, but it wasn't perfect, there was a few errors. Lap 6 I went off at McLeans, hehe

Here's the slow death of our car and the crushing of my Donington dreams. Started 12th on the grid, just ahead of the Collins Clio.... a little bit of a steady start and we lost a few places. Then, in a vain attempt to shut the driver vent, Ryan knocked the fuel pump switch off heading down...

Yeh, it'll be a purchase of 2 i think...just in case. And thanks, I'm in charge of how it looks and it's gradually turning in to the blue and green monster I've always imagined! We're pretty sure ambient heat has killed it, it's packaged in a position that can't be great for air flow. Rob's...

No spare...and it was too late by the time we'd spotted it anyway. We were in the assembly area when we noticed. So, not only get a couple of them, but a change to process to make sure we check the car over for faults like that as soon as it gets in from qually.

I was feeling confident all week that we had the ability to beat them this time out and the qually time showed that, just really gutted we didn't get a chance to show it. They go well at Oulton and know it a fair bit better than we do, so we'll have to see what that race brings. We'll get the...

We suffered an alternator failure.... we actually spotted something was wrong in the assembly area! Just went out hoping it would fix itself with a bit of engine speed, but not to be. Ryan managed to knock the fuel pump off on the first lap too, whilst trying to turn the lambda gauge off in a...

Fred, you know as well as most that the standard engines can vary greatly in compression.... we've got a good one, simple. Dave didn't build the engine at all, we did, every bit of it. We did calcs to establish the ideal trumpet length and injector postion as well as where to position the...

Well, we got it mapped over at Emerald HQ (the manufacturers of our ECU) and I have faith in Dave Walker and the accuracy of his rollers. I'm sure we'd get a different figure on different rollers, but I think it wouldn't be far off the measured 224.6 bhp we did get. We haven't lifted the rev...

It's not a lie Fred.... It's quite peaky if you look at the plot. I can assure you the car's pretty quick now too.

Sorry.... we're on ITB's as well, think I missed that bit out. Here's the link to the rolling road from earlier on in the year - http://chaseracing.co.uk/easter-14-update/ We were surprised it went over 210 bhp to be honest, but we seem to have got a good balance of trumpet length and injector...

James, Just had a chance to read through and watch some of the vids. I'm suitably impressed. You're approaching it all in the best way, not letting power corrupt you, sorting the balance of the car first. Also, I like your style of driving....smooth and fast. The only thing I'd say is get that...

Yeh, you were doing well to keep your speed up on the exit of the slow corners. Did you film it?

Pete, I'm sorry to say, but I'd tend to disagree with that. My personal obversation (only an opinion) is that you were taking the slower corners a bit too tight.... the black clio was clearly keeping a wide entry to these corners and keeping his minimum apex speed higher, resulting in a higher...

Just catching up on this.... We had a similar problem when we modified our race car, driveshafts popping out! If you've chewed the cv cup....You need to open that gearbox up and get it cleaned, there is guaranteed swarf in there even if you have found all the needles.

Who likes our new wheels?

Anglesey Race Report - August 2014 Anglesey is quite a long way from where we’re based and it’s similar for most other people in fact. With that in mind, we decided that rather than setting off in the early hours of the morning we would travel up on Saturday afternoon, and stay at the circuit...

Yeh, we're planning on all the remaining rounds of Tin Tops and then hopefully the Birkett relay to finish the year off.

James, donington tin tops is only 3 weeks away and it's going to be a grudge match between us and the Collins Clio for the Class B win..... another fast Clio in the mix would make it doubly interesting!!! You know you're tempted.

Yeh, happy with 1.18... just know there's still a bit more to come from it. I'm pretty sure the bump steer isn't an issue, we spent enough time modifying the subframe that it betta had be! I don't think we need to change the hardware too much any more, it's just setup work. Having 3 drivers...

10 – July Update & Castle Combe Race Report Another break between races and another holiday to fit in; Ryan and I went down to Le Mans for the 24 hour race and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! As soon as we got back though, it was time to crack on with a few jobs that needed to be complete in time...

Haha, looking good Tony! Ian was telling us about your escapades on sunday, he didn't sound happy that you'd plastered the bonnet.

James, what campsite you staying at in Le Mans? Good effort taking the race car down!