Pastywagon sprint dates 2010 - Overall championship win!

Today's progress:

Lower attachment lip for flexible airdam section bonded to the floor - basically follows the same shape as the lower edge of the bumper



bumper here:



2.6mm shiny black kaylan for the flexible section - will be attached between the floor and the bottom of the bumper



Painting the floor black tomorrow is the weather is ok, then final fitting phase

Ave it

Rob

At the moment, the calendar is:

1. Sat 24th April - Aintree
2. Fri 30th April - Anglesey Trackday with Book-a-Track
3. Sat 1st May - Anglesey
4. Sun 2nd May - Anglesey
5. Sun 9th May - Curborough
6. Sun 15th Aug - Curborough
7. Sat 4th Sept Aintree

Couple more dates to add yet but above is fairly certain. Its a bit congested, but having to fit it around work commitments.

Yeh :

Painted with 10yr exterior satin black - should do the trick

Thinking of laminating the bottom with a sheet of kevlar but probably need to try it out first before spending any further

Off to have a sleep now in front of the F1 GP

got a cardboard template incase I need to make another, and a tech drawing of it with sizes

course...if it works......I could make more of them if there was the requirement.......

edit: dont think it would clear a regular engine sump though....

few self tappers going in tomorrow and job done - must say it looks rather good



Battery on charge tonight and run her up to temperature tomorrow

Ave it

Rob

job done - now to see if it works!

ta - if this works, then the front floor will be remade in carbon (top)/kevlar(bottom) foam sandwich - much stronger and lighter - and the kevlar bottom will be abrasion resistant

then step 2 will probably be side skirts - thinking being that the front spoiler will reduce the amount of air going under the car and it would be good to keep the advantage and stop air spilling in at the sides to make the rear end light

last thing will be a rear diffuser

concern is the amount of weight that all this adds to the car

Round 1 Results: Aintree

Cracking day on Sat at Aintree.

As always, meeting was run very efficiently by Liverpool MC with getting on for 200 entries. This was a round of the Caterham Academy racing, the Paul Matty Racing Car Champs (Lotus) and the Midland Speed Champs, so some fantastic cars about.

Car of the weekend for me was a classic Lotus F2 in Gold Leaf colours (gold/red/white) with a Novamotor engine - simply stunning. Also present was the 'Expose'; the lotus prototype for the 340R with a see-through plastic body.

Day was nice and warm.

We were in 3b with the usual 205's, an XR2, and an E36 BMW M3.....fully stripped......because he was the only entrant in 3c, he was put in with us in 3B. Great. An M3. Well we'll just have to try and beat him then

3a had 3 really well prepared minis, one being Martin Depper (ground effects mini), class record holder.

P1 - 2.71, 54.98 (121 mph) nice and steady, looking for the new bits of tarmac that apparently had been laid
P2 - 2.79, 52.52 (124 mph) turned the wick up a bit, car felt great, my fastest ever through the trap I think so aero mods might be doing something, up the damping front and rear for next run, BMW doing well so gotta go faster

T1 - 2.68, 51.31 (121 mph) - absolute stonker - personal best by 8 tenths - bring it on BM
LUNCH
T2 - 2.69, 51.30 (121 mph) - almost identical to before, new PB - ahead of the BM with one to go
T3 - 2.64, 51.10 (121 mph) - again, a cracker and there was more to come I reckon.

Martin Depper set yet another 3a class record with 51.18.

So first in class, beat the M3, and a new PB by a little over a second (previous 52.14). Unheard of to make this kind of improvement in sprinting on a course I know, so aero mods and new tyres and setup clearly doing the buisness.

Oh....on the last run of the day, my rear hatch window blew out and landed on the track...ooops.....so that needs sticking back in before the next one

Till next time

Ave it

Rob

[Results here: http://www.liverpoolmotorclub.com/aintree-spring-sprint-results/