Building, racing, crashing and setting fire to various kit cars…
Well, I hope so anyway. You may have noticed I’ve been absent recently. Essentially, I’ve been snowed under. However, I seem to be getting out of it now.
I’ve now managed to get the garage mostly tidied up, although I am thinking about making life difficult for myself by putting some more paint on the floor. I do now have lots of the bits that I need to get going on the class B engine change. Most obviously, I’ve got the engine as seen here. Continue reading ‘Back on track’ »
I know, I know. It’s been ages since I posted here. I’ve got the obvious excuse, though, that things have been rather frenetic with respect to Anthea. However, she seems to be slowly on the mend now so my thoughts are turning back to car things. Inevitably, I didn’t do the Birkett. It might have been just about possible but, to be honest, my mind was on other things.
Essentially, there are 3 things I want to do to the car this winter, as in the following list. I’ve given myself a target for getting the car done by booking up for a track day at Snetterton on February 14th. That will probably be about a month before the start of the season proper and should give me a chance to see if the car actually works.
For those of you wondering what happened at Mallory, in the end I didn’t go. Although, it was apparently a carnage-strewn race that was good to miss.
I didn’t go to Mallory because Anthea ended up in Papworth Hospital undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t feel like going to Mallory. She seems to be on the mend now, though, which is great. It’s a long way back to fitness though, apparently about 3 months.
The big issue now is, will she be well enough for me to do the Birkett?
The last race of the RGB season is coming up so the car needs a bit of preparation.
Most important is the oil cooler. I took this off before Oulton as it became apparent that something was leaking from somewhere. However, the oil temperatures at Oulton were back to being alarmingly high (as in the output from the logger just on the right.) As you can see, the oil temperature was up to nearly 160°C before the end of the race.
I’ve carried on using Susprog3D on the suspension and it’s really rather interesting, or alarming depending on your point of view. All I’ve done with the suspension in the past is just calculated the roll centres and used that, along with a nifty spreadsheet, to calculate the roll stiffness distribution. That was fairly successful. However, the current investigation is producing all sorts of odd things.
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