Phoenix from the ashes

[jeffw]

Or at least from it's winter projects Time to start using it First sprint of the season tomorrow morning.






Finished at last (well...this week anyway )

[Stubby Pete]

What size tyres are you running? They suit the car well with black wheels.

[jeffw]

185/60 13" front and 205/60 13" rear. The CXRs are a new purchase and I'm please I went for satin black.

[AdiT]

Looking good Jeff, but you do know the n/s front tyre is on the wrong way around?

[jeffw]

No..I didn't lol...I'll change them over.

[The Black Flash]

That's a fine looking motor

[jason61c]

Yep, great looking car. How's the engine getting on since the cams and stuff?

[Furyblade_Lee]

Here is my Phoenix too just risen from it's winter hibernation and a respray. R1 power in this one.

[AdiT]

What, no Haribo mascot anymore Lee?

[Furyblade_Lee]

There is a time and a place for that, a time and a place....

[stevetvrs]

Furyblade_Lee said:

Here is my Phoenix too just risen from it's winter hibernation and a respray. R1 power in this one.

I recognised the plate whilst admiring this Fury from BGH site. Apologies if I'm being controversial in any way, and let me know if I need to delete this Lee

[Stubby Pete]

This is becoming a Phoenix love-in!!

Here's a couple of mine, let's call it a work in progress following my off!!!






I quite like the different size tyres front to back, lookig for slightly bigger wheels for mine to increase the top end as it's limited by the diff using the R1 engine and a new diff ratio is prohibitively expensive for a live axle.

[Furyblade_Lee]

Stevetvrs, well spotted my old Fury with the same plate! I actually have pictures of my Fury and Phoenix with the sane plate, but it so many colours I convince most people I have had 10 different cars!!

[jeffw]

So the first sprint yesterday, 73.26 at North Weald, 2nd in class and 8th overall (out of 60). Everything worked as expected and I have a small list of things to sort out before this weekend's Sprint at Lydden.

Car is producing around 175-180BHP at the wheels and is an absolute blast on the road. I have a datalogger on the car as well now and I'm still getting my head round the software but the best 0-60 time was 4.3 secs. This was a very bumpy, dusty bit of mixed tarmac on cold, new R888 tyres. So I thought that was pretty good for a 'drive away' start rather than a wheelspinning clutch dumping start.

Edited by jeffw on Monday 4th April 11:13