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post Nov 22 2004, 04:39 PM
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Day 0 – Prologue – Wednesday

The Prologue is to determine the starting order for the competitive stages of the event. It was run on part of the old GP circuit. It was very slippery even though it was dry and 37˚. We did a 2.22. Beat our main competition (Curnick/Winter #416 2.7 RS replica “the girls”) by a second. Also beat Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down, Hulk etc) in his 944 by a few 10ths and we end up starting right behind him.


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post Nov 22 2004, 04:40 PM
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post Nov 22 2004, 04:42 PM
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post Nov 22 2004, 04:43 PM
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Day 1 – Thursday

It was good for most of the day. We were going reasonably hard but the girls took a few seconds from us until the eventful last stage of the day, the 12 km Corkscrew. About half way into the stage the clutch pedal went to the floor and stayed there. The only gear I could find was 4th, so we went as far as we could in 4th and I parked it beside the road 2km from the finish because there was no way it would go up the mountain at the end which had first gear hairpins. After watching the field go past and waiting about 2.5 hours the tilt tray arrived and took us back to the service area. Gear box then came out and we find that the clutch fork pivot has unscrewed itself from the case. It has a pull clutch in it. So we put it back together (with some locktite) ready for the next day.

Meanwhile the Girls in the 911 have engine problems on Corkscrew, but manage to finish the stage. Turns out to be broken rocker, broken inlet valve and bent exhaust valve. Not pretty; see photo below.


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post Nov 22 2004, 04:46 PM
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Day 2 – Friday

Starts with the Coromandel stage which is a fantastic bit of road. We really hammered it. Second stage was Wickham Hill and about 2 km into the stage the clutch pedal goes to the floor again. Fortunately I got it into 3rd so we drive through the stage. Its obvious because of the smoke what’s happened. The pivot bolt has pulled out of the case and gear oil is coming out the hole and falling on the exhaust.

Back at the service area as soon as the box is out our diagnosis is proved correct. This time its pulled the time cert out of the case. So if found a mechanic with a lathe and drilled a hole through the centre of the pivot ball, made up a top hat bush to go in from the diff side, drilled out the time cert hole and bolted the thing back together. Becko and I are sick of groveling under the car and eating fast food by this time.


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post Nov 22 2004, 04:50 PM
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Day 3 – Saturday

The Dog pulls like a train all day. Becko gets the calls right and I drive it pretty hard. Whilst the result is now irrelevant because of the time we have lost we end up running in the low 20’s for the day in our classic division. Our friends Norm and Nigel King in their E21 BMW came to grief on Basket Range. The car went in fairly hard and then caught fire, putting Norm (the navigator father) in hospital for a few hours. He ended up with a broken toe and chipped tooth. See photo below. Later investigation reveals that the sway bar/drag link broke where it goes into the lower control arm most probably because the bushing material was changed to poly graphite.


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post Nov 22 2004, 04:51 PM
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Day 4 – Sunday

Pretty much a repeat of Saturday, although we take the first stage gently after about 1km into it the Dog gets a serious front end vibration. Transpires that it has shed some wheel weights so we ignore it for the rest of the day. Managed to rotate it on Piccadilly and scare Becko a bit. Came out of a series of sweeping downhill corners at the top of 3rd (about 130kmh) and coming out of the last one the back steps out, had 2 or 3 goes at catching it but she just went round. Didn’t hit anything, but it made me a bit more careful for the rest of the day.

All in all a great event but I wish I hadn’t missed most of day 2. But as they say that’s motorsport.

PS The Girls did manage to get the engine in their car running after putting a replacement head on it but it was sick so they parked it for the weekend and went out and drowned their sorrows a couple of times.


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Thanks for the report Howard. We were following the results here. I'm glad you got it fixed.
Those pictures are awesome, too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)
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