bit of a mad rush but I got the car ready to run and gave it a wheel alignment and it passed its Cage Audit.
There is a rough edit video on you tube
In short we drove it on to the trailer at the end of the day - and drove it into the shed after that.... It ran and stopped okay - nothing really broke and the water temps were 85 degrees centegtrade all day only getting over 100 when coming in after a run.
The handling was teriffic (terriable and horific!) the tyres were only there to hold the rims off teh ground which they did okay.... they just did nothing else! - that plus bliblical levels of torque steer -
In the 7 days since then I have bought new tyres (215/50/13 kuhmo V70a) and am fixing a few of the obvious faults...
Track arms are now 10mm shorter - wheel spacers are now 5mm on the front... and the rear arm securing "hangers" are now 25.4 mm 3mm wall seamless tube rather than 5/8" hex stock (dumb - dumb - dumb idea that looked okay at the time)
When checking the rims I have found I have the widest 13x7JJ -7 ET superlights on the planet - they measure at 210mm - 8" which explains why the tyres have always been a hassle to fit...
My plan is to do two events in May and then park it for the winter and probably buy a set of 13x8's either Compomotive CXR's in satin black with some decent ET numbers - I think I have pleanty of room inboard of the current wheel package for an ET of anything up to 40mm but looks can be deceiving and wil depend on how the new tyres go on I may end up with some more performance Superlights with 6mm ET in Black to complement the rears better
Will really need to concentrate on the handling now - Chain life after the weekend looks like it might be okay... have also changed the shocks to full hard on rebound to see what that does...
Other stuff to fiddle with will be the CV boots (grease leaking under pressure) ducting some clod air to the chain... getting a heap more rear camber (which is how I found that the 5/8" hex rear hangers were not far away from making the debut a disaster of large and ugly proportions - will take a pic of those this week...
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