Ginetta, Audi and VW.
Discussion
Time for an update.
RS6: After a gearbox issue coming up this was sold on at a ridiculous loss as I simply didn't have to time to allocate to removing engine and box to sort. Also didn't seem worth it for a car that was barely used and destined to be sold anyway. If I had been more into it I had considered a change to a manual box as the triptronic in these is nothing short of awful. But again it looked like it would end up costing a minimum of 3k and really didnt want to start another project, so just took the hit. Lesson learned!
Van: Still plodding on faultlessly, not got round to converting it for staying in yet which is frustrating, but being used the way that it is, and regularly filling it top to bottom with race gear, its going to need a rethink to come up with a way of maintaining space if required but still being comfortable enough to live in for a few days. Possibly some sort of easily removable furniture or two tiered system for loading underneath with a bed ontop.
Ginetta: After a change of fluids and spanner check, the car was ready for its first outing at knockhill with the SMRC sports and Saloons.
On the whole the car ran faultlessly on the circuit and smashed my old PB's and managed a podium, in the first race, fighting off a seat leon supercopa to hold third whilst trying to chase down a big power charged E46 M3, whilst my tyres wets were majorly overheating. Car is a joy to drive in the wet and has grip where I didn't know it even existed. Only issues that arose were an air jack foot popping a hole in the end and stopping the system from working. This made it very difficult to change the wheels over in a hurry due to the low ride height making it very difficult to get a jack under, but we managed, and the offending jack is off being serviced.
The only other problem was limited tyre choice. I have very good wets and reasonable slicks, but knockhill has a tendancy to be damp with a drying line or having sporadic showers, which mean either using wets which are only good for 2-3 laps before they overheat and become pretty loose, or risk it on slicks, which proved to be the wrong choice at the weekend, a shower whilst in the assembly area meaning it was like driving on ice on cold slicks, and unfortunatley spun out on the first corner, narrowly missed by the whole field!
Options that are being investigated are soft compound list 1b tyres such as 888's which people have had reasonable success with, or a cut slick which I think with be the ultimate compromise.
Some Pictures:
RS6: After a gearbox issue coming up this was sold on at a ridiculous loss as I simply didn't have to time to allocate to removing engine and box to sort. Also didn't seem worth it for a car that was barely used and destined to be sold anyway. If I had been more into it I had considered a change to a manual box as the triptronic in these is nothing short of awful. But again it looked like it would end up costing a minimum of 3k and really didnt want to start another project, so just took the hit. Lesson learned!
Van: Still plodding on faultlessly, not got round to converting it for staying in yet which is frustrating, but being used the way that it is, and regularly filling it top to bottom with race gear, its going to need a rethink to come up with a way of maintaining space if required but still being comfortable enough to live in for a few days. Possibly some sort of easily removable furniture or two tiered system for loading underneath with a bed ontop.
Ginetta: After a change of fluids and spanner check, the car was ready for its first outing at knockhill with the SMRC sports and Saloons.
On the whole the car ran faultlessly on the circuit and smashed my old PB's and managed a podium, in the first race, fighting off a seat leon supercopa to hold third whilst trying to chase down a big power charged E46 M3, whilst my tyres wets were majorly overheating. Car is a joy to drive in the wet and has grip where I didn't know it even existed. Only issues that arose were an air jack foot popping a hole in the end and stopping the system from working. This made it very difficult to change the wheels over in a hurry due to the low ride height making it very difficult to get a jack under, but we managed, and the offending jack is off being serviced.
The only other problem was limited tyre choice. I have very good wets and reasonable slicks, but knockhill has a tendancy to be damp with a drying line or having sporadic showers, which mean either using wets which are only good for 2-3 laps before they overheat and become pretty loose, or risk it on slicks, which proved to be the wrong choice at the weekend, a shower whilst in the assembly area meaning it was like driving on ice on cold slicks, and unfortunatley spun out on the first corner, narrowly missed by the whole field!
Options that are being investigated are soft compound list 1b tyres such as 888's which people have had reasonable success with, or a cut slick which I think with be the ultimate compromise.
Some Pictures:
Gingernuts said:
Van: Still plodding on faultlessly, not got round to converting it for staying in yet which is frustrating, but being used the way that it is, and regularly filling it top to bottom with race gear, its going to need a rethink to come up with a way of maintaining space if required but still being comfortable enough to live in for a few days. Possibly some sort of easily removable furniture or two tiered system for loading underneath with a bed ontop.
Watch the weight with furniture/race stuff and trailer - when I was looking for a race/camper van I wanted a T5 but we were looking like going over GVW with trailer, some kit, wheels, fuel and tools. That's not to mention the added weight of furniture - in the end we went for a 3.5 tonne Transit, not as glamourous, but plenty of spare capacity.Welcome to Ginetta racing (though we give 100bhp away to yours), always fancied a go in a G50.
Yeah I did want something bigger, but I use it as a daily and its great for snowboarding/mountain biking etc.
I went for the T32 2.5 to get the max capacity.
This is another reason it wont be getting fully kitted out with a kitchen etc, just carry either a gas stove or use circuit facilities for food.
What ginetta is it you race and in what series?
I went for the T32 2.5 to get the max capacity.
This is another reason it wont be getting fully kitted out with a kitchen etc, just carry either a gas stove or use circuit facilities for food.
What ginetta is it you race and in what series?
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