Silver Chim at CC

[Autonotiv]

so, Who drives the Silver Chim? Is it "The Gazman", or does he have a V6S?
I thought Gazman had a S-Series that he was racing in The Dunlop Tuscan Challenge?
Does "The Gazman" do the Tuscan Challenge? or am i getting confused?

Cheers a very confused

Autonotiv

>> Edited by Autonotiv on Monday 1st May 22:39

[dougc]

Its Chassis 33 (Iain) in the Chimaera. Had a bit of trouble in qualifying resulting in a trip to see us men in orange at Old Paddock. Good job on getting it working again for the afternoon's races.

[hui]

The Chimaera - No 31 is driven by Iain Jones.

Results from today are here:

www.msttiming.com/result.asp?table=61868rc1tvr&round=castlecombe.gif


Mrs Hui

>> Edited by hui on Monday 1st May 22:44

[Autonotiv]

Oh rite, so is there a S-Series car in The Dunlop Tuscan Challenge then? (being done up by "The Gazman", i think)
or is that in the TVRCC Speed Championship?

cheers

[lexie]

That'll be my Iain!
The Gazman does have an S which will be out later in the season driven by George Carter.
Hope that makes some vague sense, has been a long weekend!

[Autonotiv]

lexie said:

That'll be my Iain! The Gazman does have an S which will be out later in the season driven by George Carter. Hope that makes some vague sense, has been a long weekend!

Oh, very nice sounding chim he has , not much left on the inside though!
Shame Gaz wasn't there then, would have liked to see the S.

[georgec]

Hi,

We hope to have the 'S' out for Pembrey, although it is likely it will be the first time its turned a wheel for a while. The build is progressing well and the engine should turn up this week. Still lots to do, I now appreciate how much work goes into preparation when building a race car from scratch (and I only do the simple bits).
Nobody more disappointed than me it was not out at Combe.

George

[trackcar]

The S is a bit of a red herring though .. it's actually a Cerbera just has an S body on it .. should be fast and make people think the S cars are as fast as tuscan racers .. if that raises prices on the secondhand market i'm all for it

[chassis 33]

Hello, 'twas me in the Silver Chim. A bit disappointed by the weekend to be honest, but very pleased that (with Jamie's help from CRE) and a few tweaks and trackside fixes the engine now flies.

Combe is one of those tracks that is really easy to learn to go round, just turn right and wiggle round the chicanes, but learning to go round fast is a totally totally different issue.

I reckon If I had the power I could of put in a decent showing in the GT's however the power I had in the Tuscan race (once I'd decided to stop pirouetting and the fouled plugs had cleared) was awesome and I know there's more to come, but I think there is too much power for the current chassis setup (great for power slides, crap for lap times) and I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get a pro to tweak the suspension now.

However for Pembrey it will be a case of doing a proper job of the engine fixes and finish two more races, by which time I'll have got enough signatures to ditch the novice cross and I'll have no excuses for slow laps!

Thanks to everyone who turned out and said hi, the folks who were on the bank from the second chicane down to Camp, 'twas great to see so much support hanging on for the last race of the day.

Roll on Pembrey!

Regards
Iain

[bluebottle]

Hi Chassis33, I was down at Quarry corner whiching your pirouettes....snigger snigger, glad to see i'm not the only one to come out of there backwards.
Dont get disheatened Ian as you point out driving fast and racing fast are very different and it won't take you long to on song. I was watching your car thruogh the corners and you were getting a lot of body roll and the car didn't seem to squat down properly as you powered out of the corners. Do you have ARB's front and rear?
It was great to some of our road going cars mixing it up with the Tuscans lets hope the series continues to pick up support we can see some much larger grids for the rest of the season.

[chassis 33]

Yes, have front and rear ARB's, yes car is not very well set up. Basically its got some very crude settings on that I've put on myself, until I have the time and money to hand it over to someone who knows what they're doing!!!

I did have an on-board camera on yesterday, havent checked to see what footage I got yet though.

Regards
Iain

[Autonotiv]

Hi,

Georgec, what engine does the S/Cerb have then?
Did it start life as a V8S??
Good to see lots of effort being made to bring TVR racing back.

Trackcar, lets hope peole think S-Series cars are as quick as the gazmans will be, and people start to buy them all!

Chassis 33, your car did sound very good and looked very quick for a 4L chim. hope all the mods will work out, why not bore the engine out to a 4.5L??
The car looked very twitchy on some corners!

All round well done every one, just hope we have 30 odd cars next year for much closer racing.

Cheers

Autonotiv.

[georgec]

As it seems to be common knowledge now: the car has an S3 body which is bolted on a 4.2 cerbera chassis and running gear. This wasn't the original plan and its still in pieces so who knows what will emerge. Various bits of plumbing, electrics etc etc to do.

It will certainly be quicker than the driver.

George

[Autonotiv]

georgec said:

As it seems to be common knowledge now: the car has an S3 body which is bolted on a 4.2 cerbera chassis and running gear. This wasn't the original plan and its still in pieces so who knows what will emerge. Various bits of plumbing, electrics etc etc to do. It will certainly be quicker than the driver. George

Well good luck, but why put a S-series body on?
Why not just keep the Cerb body?

[chassis 33]

Because this Cerb chassis doesn't fit a Cerb body

Regards
Iain

[Autonotiv]

chassis 33 said:

Because this Cerb chassis doesn't fit a Cerb body Regards Iain

LOL.
How come you are racing a 4L Chim??? why didn't you go for a 5L chim then?
also you must have felt bad ripping bits off your car?
is it road leagal?

cheers

[georgec]

The reason for the S3 body is that there was a strong rumour of a lightweight Cerbera being prepared for the challenge. As the donor Cerb was the heavyweight version it would not be very competative.
Also when I sit in a Cerbera the roll cage is in my eyeline (front and side) and I like to see where i am going

The S3rbera looks good on the 17 inch Raceline wheels just need a couple of spare ones now.

George

[chassis 33]

Long story. See the website (www.chassis33.co.uk) for more info.

Basically, the idea was to race the 4l car in road trim in the old TVRCC series running a standard road spec engine. However things conspired against me, my dad wrote the car off and the regs changed to be capacity orientated not power/weight, hence I was left needing to make the best of a bad bunch. Before I ironed out this latest set of issues, I was running 251lb/ft@3725 and 195hp@4371 at the flywheel (corrected) from my local RR (no idea how they compare to other RR's though) and a very steep cliff after that, the first three times on track at Combe I was getting less and less power, but once the plugs cleared in the Tuscan race I was pulling all the way to my shift light at 5500. Like said I'm going to make permanent a few trackside fixes and re test the car to make sure everything is ok...then forget about my engine woes and

However, it's not all bad, if i can learn to pedal this engine quickly, when i end up with a bigger motor infront of me I'll be able to make the most of the extra power, if I had a 5l beast in the car now, all I'd learn to do is point and squirt.

Regards
Iain

[Graham]

chassis 33 said:

if I had a 5l beast in the car now, all I'd learn to do is point and squirt, And then turn the car round again to face the right way

[chassis 33]

Bastid.