you talking about my baby, ripFarmer wrote:One more - Simmy's of course!
Mark, what the heck has that A40 in 2nd place got in the engine bay ??Pombellett wrote:Thanks guys...forgot to mention, in the end we came 16th overall...which put a serious smile on my face.
Hi Mark, the old addage "speed costs money, how fast do you want to go" certainly applies. I was staggered to see the A40 up there in 2nd and on same lap as Mustang.Pombellett wrote:Glen, the A40 was built, developed and run by the front running British Touring Car outfit Pirtek Racing......massively trick, and cleverly bent....put in it a young blade current Touring Car racer Andrew Jordan, and his ex Touring Car racer Dad, Mike......and you've got a pretty potent set up.
The high value of successful historic racing cars and the high profile events that they're invited to, has encouraged a growing number of present day BTCC teams and drivers to get involved.....
......this 'big fish in a little pond' stuff is becoming a serious bone of contention here in the UK....it wasn't long ago that historics was a relatively cheap way to go racing, the bastion of mad, bearded men building and prepping their quirky machines in their sheds at the bottom of their gardens....
.....nowadays we find ourselves sharing a grid with wind tunnelled, computer built space craft, with ten hour engines and a current professional peddler behind the wheel.....
....I could go on, but I won't.......you started it Glen!
Ari definetely knows his stuff. He lives about 1 km or 1km and a half away from my home and occasionally I see, more often hear him passing by.Pombellett wrote:2017.....and we're finally building the 4:11 diff. It seems crazy that it's taken me so long to get round to doing this, as we've had the parts for some years now....
....but what with all our recent reliability problems, I've been loathed to deliberately put more revs on the car.
Now we've got some semblance of engine strength, it's time....and a good time at that, because our first race of the year will be at Brands Hatch. A twiddly little circuit, that very much favours shorter geared cars.
We had a little trouble sourcing bearings, but as usual the boys in Finland came up with goods. Ari take a bow.
So, we should have it all ready for the Brands race 9th April.
Not to mention the cool Isuzu collection he has. His brother is a complete car nut as well though he is consentrated to american iron. They do share interest of smaller makes though, Borther has or at least had AMC Matador and Hudson Hornet. Both beautifully restored with original or remade identical parts. Brands Hatch is easily done, there's at least 3-4 different period variations (and of course from the latest one there's Indy as well as GP layouts.) those bearings are rare here also, after my recent diff rebuild.... there's apparently one set left in Oz and I think my diff re-builder bought them. Option is to use a more available bearing thats narrower, with spacers. Probably not ideal for a race car though.Pombellett wrote:2017.....and we're finally building the 4:11 diff. It seems crazy that it's taken me so long to get round to doing this, as we've had the parts for some years now....
....but what with all our recent reliability problems, I've been loathed to deliberately put more revs on the car.
Now we've got some semblance of engine strength, it's time....and a good time at that, because our first race of the year will be at Brands Hatch. A twiddly little circuit, that very much favours shorter geared cars. We had a little trouble sourcing bearings, but as usual the boys in Finland came up with goods. Ari take a bow.
So, we should have it all ready for the Brands race 9th April.
