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Car sounds FAB, Steve! A little jittery for driving around London for me, but I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it!
The thing about low volume cars - and especially one offs within a low volume like yours - is that you are the development team! Anything can happen... things can drop off, break, undo, go bang or just not work for no reason whatsoever! (Just ask Ross!). All TVR drivers understand this! However, ultimately you have a unique form of transport and that's worth a lot of heartache.
If you're up for a track day in June - I'd love to passenger you and give you a comparison with the pasenger ride I had in the factory racer.
The thing about low volume cars - and especially one offs within a low volume like yours - is that you are the development team! Anything can happen... things can drop off, break, undo, go bang or just not work for no reason whatsoever! (Just ask Ross!). All TVR drivers understand this! However, ultimately you have a unique form of transport and that's worth a lot of heartache.
If you're up for a track day in June - I'd love to passenger you and give you a comparison with the pasenger ride I had in the factory racer.
Steve,
Many thanks for the details you had given.
Concerning the new pulley with 7.5 psi, take care of the engine because i had read something about that on www.jacksonracing.com and if my memory is not bad, the maximum possible with our "Japanese type R" engine was 5 psi (because compression is 11.5/1 with japanese type R instead of 11/1 for European tupe R).
Waiting for you in France ...
For me no problem with brake fluid .
Clutch is not very hard but not very smooth too...
Concerning the "contact" point of the clutch, it's logical to have a "high" point so that you don't have to push the pedal to the end, so gear changes' are faster. I think that's possible to adjust it.
Cheers
Jean-Pascal
Many thanks for the details you had given.
Concerning the new pulley with 7.5 psi, take care of the engine because i had read something about that on www.jacksonracing.com and if my memory is not bad, the maximum possible with our "Japanese type R" engine was 5 psi (because compression is 11.5/1 with japanese type R instead of 11/1 for European tupe R).
Waiting for you in France ...
For me no problem with brake fluid .
Clutch is not very hard but not very smooth too...
Concerning the "contact" point of the clutch, it's logical to have a "high" point so that you don't have to push the pedal to the end, so gear changes' are faster. I think that's possible to adjust it.
Cheers
Jean-Pascal
hi Jean-Pascal ive done around 700 miles in the atom now going on my second track day to brands hatch on 24 6 04 think bruce is going as well so ill finaly meet him. the driving on the road now has got alot better and smother as you get the hang of the power.i see you said your going to sell yours surely you mean go for the supercharger upgrade as its not necessary to change the whole car.ive changed all the lensses to clear lensses now and changed the bulbs to LED bulbs as it looks alot nicer.the power output is 275bhp but you were right about the pully upgrade its not possable on the japanese engine. im ordering some wheels from dymag to help the weight and genneral apperance as i like the look of the racing cars so ill proberbly go for a set of the spoilers soon.
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