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How many miles has yours done Flemke and how many on your watch?

[flemke]

Stuart said:

Jonathan Palmer and David Clark would have put some miles in too, surely?

Yep, sure.
It's my impression that Palmer did less of the development driving than did the man to whom I alluded, but the well-known Formula One driver was the one given publicity. I do know that the well-known Formula One driver had some distinct differences of opinion with the design "team" over how the car handled.

[flemke]

Google [bot] said:

How many miles has yours done Flemke and how many on your watch?

Roughly 40/36.

[greygoose]

flemke said:

Google [bot] said:

How many miles has yours done Flemke and how many on your watch?

Roughly 40/36.

Has the engine loosened up in that time at all or does it still seem the same?

[stephen300o]

flemke said:

stephen300o said:

flemke said:

nonuts said:

I was about to ask if those needed a servo

Does this mean when it's all back together all of your mods will also be finished?

At present the car is on iron discs. After the factory finishes its thing, we'll fit the above and then I think we'll be done.

Maybe some adjustment to the nut behind the wheel?

Adjustment? More like replacement.

First chauffeur driven F1!?

[flemke]

Frik said:

For sure, F. I meant it how I said it. He's probably driven more different vehicles than anyone else.

He won't have as many miles under his belt as the latter gentleman though and lets face it, he's not got a hope in hell of growing such an impressive beard. Some people are just lucky I guess.

Which one's Waldo?

[flemke]

greygoose said:

flemke said:

Google [bot] said:

How many miles has yours done Flemke and how many on your watch?

Roughly 40/36.

Has the engine loosened up in that time at all or does it still seem the same?

Because of the time span, I'm not sensitive enough to say.
Gordon reckoned that after 20k or so the engine would have reached its full potential, and that, other things being equal, that loosening up would yield another 25-30 bhp.

[flemke]

stephen300o said:

flemke said:

stephen300o said:

flemke said:

nonuts said:

I was about to ask if those needed a servo

Does this mean when it's all back together all of your mods will also be finished?

At present the car is on iron discs. After the factory finishes its thing, we'll fit the above and then I think we'll be done.

Maybe some adjustment to the nut behind the wheel?

Adjustment? More like replacement.

First chauffeur driven F1!?

I hope not. The whole point of having it is to drive it.

[Martin Keene]

flemke said:

Martin Keene said:

flemke said:

Martin Keene said:

flemke said:

For the 5000th post on this thread, I thought I'd share this:

Flemke, my I ask where the disc orginates from? My guess would be Enzo, top line Porsche, etc.

Nfw, my friend. I would not sully my car with such pedestrian contrivances.
Seriously, for their road cars Ferrari, Porsche and everyone else use carbon-ceramic composite disc material.
This is carbon/carbon, which weighs half as much as carbon-ceramic, and does not have the heat-spike vulnerability (well, it does, but at a much higher threshold). Also, with carbon-ceramic, you have got to have a servo, but not with this.

Oh, interesting. As I understood it, the heat required to make carbon-carbon brakes work effectively means they were a non-starter for roads use?

You are quite correct.
Like many problems, however, this one can be solved (not by me, but by a friend who sprinkles his proprietary magic dust on carbon/carbon discs, and has done so on more than one winning car in F1 this year).

An F1 with F1 brakes, kind of appropriate...

[Rich_W]

flemke said:

I hope not. The whole point of having it is to drive it.

Good lad

Apparently, yours is the highest mileage non factory car. The Harrods car is spotted floating about a lot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8o2nO8cBk as does the Lark car now it's with a new owner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKfVCTmmyc And Mr B was seen a lot on the road when he owned his. As are Atkinson and Mason to a degree.

But I wonder why the other owners (Not just in the UK, it seems even worse elsewhere) are rarely seen driving around the thing. Long may the active F1 owners continue

[Stuart]

flemke said:

Stuart said:

Jonathan Palmer and David Clark would have put some miles in too, surely?

Yep, sure.
It's my impression that Palmer did less of the development driving than did the man to whom I alluded, but the well-known Formula One driver was the one given publicity. I do know that the well-known Formula One driver had some distinct differences of opinion with the design "team" over how the car handled.

I also happen to know that the less well known former sales director rather regrets setting the servicing costs as high as they did now that he owns one of the cars!

[LongLiveTazio]

Are you going to have ABS on the car then, flemke?

I'm all for 'purity' in the right context but as someone who isn't a driving God I think ABS is up there with the three-point seatbelt as the device that has saved more people's bacon than anything else.

[HereBeMonsters]

Frik said:

For sure, F. I meant it how I said it. He's probably driven more different vehicles than anyone else.

He won't have as many miles under his belt as the latter gentleman though and lets face it, he's not got a hope in hell of growing such an impressive beard. Some people are just lucky I guess.

Why do we always have to talk in code on here? Who are you on about?!

[Soovy]

Anyway, cutting to the chase.

Flemke - I've been outside your house in that ditch now for seven months. Am I getting a go or what?

[Frik]

HereBeMonsters said:

Frik said:

For sure, F. I meant it how I said it. He's probably driven more different vehicles than anyone else.

He won't have as many miles under his belt as the latter gentleman though and lets face it, he's not got a hope in hell of growing such an impressive beard. Some people are just lucky I guess.

Why do we always have to talk in code on here? Who are you on about?!

I should imagine that flemke likes to extend his own benefit of relative anonymity to others in a similar position. The information exists on the rest of the internet and you can find it all out without much googling.

The two issues are the obvious, that once the information is out it can never be taken back and also that this ends up being a "name the owner" thread which has happened elsewhere and is tiresome. This thread should be about the car and owning it, not about the owners themselves imho.

[HereBeMonsters]

Frik said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Frik said:

For sure, F. I meant it how I said it. He's probably driven more different vehicles than anyone else.

He won't have as many miles under his belt as the latter gentleman though and lets face it, he's not got a hope in hell of growing such an impressive beard. Some people are just lucky I guess.

Why do we always have to talk in code on here? Who are you on about?!

I should imagine that flemke likes to extend his own benefit of relative anonymity to others in a similar position. The information exists on the rest of the internet and you can find it all out without much googling.

So why the secrecy?

[Frik]

I think it was covered in the second part of my post that you didn't quote.

There's no great secrecy per se, but as soon as you name names it becomes much more googleable. PM me if you're that desperate to know.

[flemke]

Rich_W said:

flemke said:

I hope not. The whole point of having it is to drive it.

Good lad

Apparently, yours is the highest mileage non factory car. The Harrods car is spotted floating about a lot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8o2nO8cBk as does the Lark car now it's with a new owner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKfVCTmmyc And Mr B was seen a lot on the road when he owned his. As are Atkinson and Mason to a degree.

But I wonder why the other owners (Not just in the UK, it seems even worse elsewhere) are rarely seen driving around the thing. Long may the active F1 owners continue

At one time mine was, I think, the second-highest mileage non-factory (as in, non-XP5) car. The car alluded to above, owned by a hirsute Englishman, has always been ahead of mine, and I've not driven mine all that much in last 4-ish years, so I suspect that some others have surpassed it by now as well. I know of several that are at least in the 30s.

[Dan_1981]

Flemke,

A couple of questions if you don't mind.......

How is the F1 as a long distance car? I'm assuming here that you drove it to Germany? Is it reasonably comfotable? Cope with the distance well?

and i'm absolutly sure that this must have been asked before but I can't find if you've ever answered it - understand comepletly if you'd rather not say though - but what else do you have in your garage(s)?

I've seen reference to Porsche cgt and I think i've seen you posting about the thingy ma bob what do ya call it - silver cylindrical type thingy....

Whats you're everyday drive?

Thanks for all the entertainment this thread does provide.

eta: And a 959 I see.

Edited by Dan_1981 on Sunday 8th August 23:33

[flemke]

LongLiveTazio said:

Are you going to have ABS on the car then, flemke?

I'm all for 'purity' in the right context but as someone who isn't a driving God I think ABS is up there with the three-point seatbelt as the device that has saved more people's bacon than anything else.

I myself do not think of ABS as affecting the purity all that much. The best-feeling brakes I have ever used are on a 959, and that was one of the earliest, presumably crudest, ABS systems of all.

I've looked a bit at what is required for an ABS system, and it's a lot of stuff to package and carry around.