Tim’s Car Pages

Compared to the recent bout of doom and despondency, this post should turn out to be slightly more upbeat.

First up I took the remains of the shattered exhaust over to Andy’s and we welded in a new cat, as seen here. (I really need to get a TIG welder…) Apparently, the cat I had is one of the earliest batch produced by the company that Andy got them from and they now weld the cat canister into the housing. (If you look hard at the photo you can see where there’s some grinding on the top of the housing, this appears to be the end result of where a hole has been drilled through the housing and then filled with weld material after the cat was inserted.)

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Well, the short news is that I did make the trackday at Snetterton.

The long news is a bit more traumatic. In fact, at one point I’d decided that I was torturing myself unnecessarily and it’d be more productive to go for a sleep.

Continue reading ‘That was fun!’ »

Well, for a change it all went to schedule. I got up at some ungodly hour this morning and drove up to Leeds to get the car back from Tony Law Exhausts. Good as their word, the car was there ready for me and after parting with the readies I drove straight back home again. I got back about 1130, although I think “knackered” is absolutely the right word.

Looking a bit later on and the exhaust looks pretty good, although the header connections needed a bit of brutality to make them line up properly.

Continue reading ‘Tinkering resumes happily’ »

There’s not too much to talk about really as the car’s gone away. However, a few people were nagging me to update the site so here I am again.

As discussed, I took the car up to Tony Law Exhausts last Wednesday. The weather, as most readers will know if you’re not reading up on history, was horrible but Wednesday was a bit of a break in the blizzard conditions. When I left it, the chaps there were a a bit vacant about how long it was going to be. I impressed on them about the track day that’s coming up on Saturday!!!! I know other people are feeling a bit pressured, such as Adrian, but at least he’s got a car in his garage.

Continue reading ‘Nothing to play with’ »

Last weekend was the annual 750 Motor Club awards dinner which is always a good night to chat to racing mates and always seems to me to be the startof the season. As such I seem to have an awful still to do.

Hence, eeeek!!!

There’s a bit of progress to talk about here, luckily. First up is that I installed the power commander just at the side of the battery, as shown here. I also had a play with the mapping software which looks pretty cool and fairly easy  to use. Essentially you attach a laptop to the power commander with a USB cable and it gives you a 2D set of sites (the dimensions being throttle position and RPM) in each of which you can adjust the fueling above or below the standard setting dished out by the Honda ECU, which is just the other side of the battery. You can also get an ignition module for the Power Commander but that is specially forbidden by the formula regs. It’d be interesting to try it though.

Continue reading ‘Eeeek….’ »