Joe's Racing Blue Project

Jekyll · Feb 2, 2014

Coops Turbo said:
this car basically just wins RB face-off hands down, stunner

Yep!

Now that its announced, are you coming CSS this year Joe?

Joe# · Feb 2, 2014

Haha!

I certainly will be, missed last years as I was at Anglesey. Should be a good day, fingers crossed the weather is good this year for it.

Joe# · Feb 9, 2014

Decided to clean the car today and go for a good drive. Managed to take a few photo's too.

IMG_6471 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6477 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6479 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6481 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6483 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

Craig. · Feb 9, 2014

:hail: You've got this perfect, only minor thing I dislike is the stripes on the boot lid going to the bottom, other than that perfect IMO

Paul.M · Feb 9, 2014

Looks great as usual joe, when's your next outing on track in it?

Joe# · Feb 9, 2014

Craig. said:
:hail: You've got this perfect, only minor thing I dislike is the stripes on the boot lid going to the bottom, other than that perfect IMO

Thanks Craig!

Paul.M said:
Looks great as usual joe, when's your next outing on track in it?

I'm not too sure yet really. I'm going over to the Nurburgring again in April, so maybe something after that in May. I'll be doing the RenaultSport track day at Oulton Park.

I want to do a few more things before it goes back on track though.

Joe# · Feb 17, 2014

Just a quick update. Fitted a new battery on Saturday as my old one was on it's way out. Also, my seat cover for the Recaro came so I fitted that too.

All going well I should be ordering up a new set of coilovers soon too

George182 · Feb 17, 2014

Love this car Joe, I am incredibly jealous of how tidy it is though!

Knuckles · Feb 17, 2014

Could've ironed it :rasp:

Joe# · Feb 17, 2014

George182 said:
Love this car Joe, I am incredibly jealous of how tidy it is though!

Thanks George, I'm a big fan of your 182. There's still quite a few bits to do on mine though.

Knuckles said:
Could've ironed it :rasp:

Be quite you

JamesBryan · Feb 17, 2014

What coilovers are you going for mate?

Joe# · Feb 17, 2014

JamesBryan said:
What coilovers are you going for mate?

AST Sportline 1's James. I'll do a full front end refresh at the same time too.

Chi · Feb 17, 2014

Brilliant Joe, Im planning to go the Nurburg in April.. Might see you there..

JamesBryan · Feb 17, 2014

Joe said:
AST Sportline 1's James. I'll do a full front end refresh at the same time too.

Because racecar.

Joe# · Feb 17, 2014

Chi said:
Brilliant Joe, Im planning to go the Nurburg in April.. Might see you there..

When abouts are you going mate?

JamesBryan said:
Because racecar.

Don't you just know it

Chi · Feb 18, 2014

Towards the end I think.

Cub. · Feb 18, 2014

Great shout on the ASTs, lovely bit of kit.

I've just done a suspension refresh on mine, pricey but hoping I'll notice the difference when back on the road

Joe# · Feb 18, 2014

Cub. said:
Great shout on the ASTs, lovely bit of kit.

I've just done a suspension refresh on mine, pricey but hoping I'll notice the difference when back on the road

I know a few people who run them and can't fault them at all. So I'm looking forward to getting them

That's right. Going of people on here it should make a nice noticeable difference too

Paul.M · Feb 18, 2014

Joe give me a shout when you buy the new coilovers with what you want for yours

Joe# · Feb 18, 2014

Paul.M said:
Joe give me a shout when you buy the new coilovers with what you want for yours

Will do mate. They're still in fairly good condition to be honest. And will fit 54/60mm hubs.

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

Right then, managed to find some photo's of the trackday I did at Anglesey last summer, so I thought I would post a few photo's up.

XS2_0003 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

XS2_0025 (2) by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

XS2_0027 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

XS2_0055 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

XS2_0285 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

XS2_0529 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

And on to today. I headed down to AST UK to pick up the new coilovers, which I'm massively happy with. The spacing is 54mm, so I'll be swapping the hubs over to fit them. They look like a great bit of kit though, so I'm looking forward to getting everything fitted now.

IMG_6491 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6496 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6500 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6502 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

IMG_6503 by Joe_Harding, on Flickr

imprezaworks · Feb 23, 2014

Looks great joe

Rubicon_ · Feb 23, 2014

Lovely car Joe, would love an RB!

Jon.G · Feb 23, 2014

Jon mentioned you were going down to get them today, I do hope you don't have the same troubles Rob had with his.

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

imprezaworks said:
Looks great joe

Arran_ said:
Lovely car Joe, would love an RB!

Thanks guys

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

Jon.G said:
Jon mentioned you were going down to get them today, I do hope you don't have the same troubles Rob had with his.

Plenty of people use the Sportline 1's with very few problems really. The issue with Rob's were that the helper springs had been fitted about the main spring instead of below.

Jon.G · Feb 23, 2014

Yeah, I saw Rob mentioned that was the cause. When do you plan to have these fitted? Whens your next track day?

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

Jon.G said:
Yeah, I saw Rob mentioned that was the cause. When do you plan to have these fitted? Whens your next track day?

Aiming to have these fitted and the rest of the suspension bits in the middle of March I think. Get it all set up at Blink Motorsport, then blast over to the Ring.

As for trackdays over here I'm not sure yet really. I need to have a look at some dates.

Jon.G · Feb 23, 2014

Good plan. Ideally I wanted to go to the ring again this year, but at the moment it doesn't fit in my plans. I'm going Spa for the F1 anyway, so that'll be decent.

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

Jon.G said:
Good plan. Ideally I wanted to go to the ring again this year, but at the moment it doesn't fit in my plans. I'm going Spa for the F1 anyway, so that'll be decent.

That'll be brilliant mate! Are you driving over for it?

Jekyll · Feb 23, 2014

How comes the coilovers are 54mm spacing?

Car at looks cracking above. If I was to get another 182 then it'd be RB with strips and F1's and that's all down to you

aucky · Feb 23, 2014

Ooof!

Joe# · Feb 23, 2014

Dr Jekyll said:
How comes the coilovers are 54mm spacing?

Car at looks cracking above. If I was to get another 182 then it'd be RB with strips and F1's and that's all down to you

Curtis only had these in stock mate, and it would of meant waiting a good few weeks for the 60's so I just went for them. I would of been taking my current hubs off anyway to replace the bearings. So the whole car will be in peices, so it's no extra work to fit the hubs really. I just end to find some 172 ones.

Haha, it is a nice combo.

Jekyll · Feb 23, 2014

Makes sense! Tbh there resale value (when the time comes) would probably got a bigger crowd being 54mm.

They do look a quality bit of kit. Not read any bad reviews.

Keith185 · Feb 24, 2014

Very nice

love this little car

Joe# · Feb 24, 2014

Dr Jekyll said:
Makes sense! Tbh there resale value (when the time comes) would probably got a bigger crowd being 54mm.

They do look a quality bit of kit. Not read any bad reviews.

That's true actually, I never really thought of that.

They are a nice bit if kit. The fact that you can drive around on full soft on the road, and them stiffen them up in a matter of seconds is very appealing

Keith185 said:
Very nice love this little car

Thanks mate.

Tyler@Ultimate · Feb 24, 2014

How are they stiffened up?

welshname · Feb 24, 2014

Damping I imagine

Joe# · Feb 24, 2014

As Rhys said, on the adjusters. Fronts are done at the top (in the engine bay). But the rears are on the bottom of the shocks, so you need to put your head under the car.

Joe# · Mar 2, 2014

A bought a GoPro ready for the Nurburgring trip. So I went and did a little bit of testing yesterday. Here's a clip of the Yozza:

[video=youtube_share;pAvqUc8nQJU]http://youtu.be/pAvqUc8nQJU[/video]

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