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Re: Increasing Active Members

Started by Dick Roberts (Web admin), December 03, 2004, 12:06:56

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Dick Roberts (Web admin)

Posted by Francis on October 08, 2004 at 20:48:02:

In Reply to: Increasing Active Members posted by Terry Collier on October 08, 2004 at 14:47:10:

Terry

I probably have a budget to do next season or at least a good part of it. History:

Graham Harper built our team's first good engine and I subsequently built an engine that was only a shade slower (and then blew it to pieces!). The point being that I could do it and the car ran in the top five at the last Mondello doing consistently good laps, if not spectacularly fast. We were never going to challenge ECAS but we could run with Shark Attack and Wayne so the drivers can't have been that shite.

This year with the cam issue I find the club cam (of which I bought three and rebuilt all my engines) is by no means standard (why oh why was the cam timing not simply specified in the rules??), requires particular care when tuning to get the best power etc. and further more blows the engines to pieces unless I had known something that a lot of us did not at Snetterton. My car was miles off the pace and I didn't have a huge amount of fun. I would suggest to you that this is a vital issue. For whatever reason the ECAS car is almost always fastest by some degree and that bothered me not one jot either at Mondello or Snetterton so for me the rule changes have been terrible.

So do I go a specialised engine builder and spend however much I have to spend to get on the pace? Or do I go and race something else with stable rules? No, probably not, but if I do race next year it will only be because of the 24 hours.

A very personal view and it maybe crap but it's how I feel.

Francis