After a rather disasterous season end last year (one blown motor, one blown clutch, one damaged gearbox) I have had a rather inauspicious start to the season after a really rushed prep. I hit the track last weekend after just managing to get the engine back in the car the day before. With no dyno I really just wanted to check things out and find all the nuts and bolts we hadn't tightened up. An oil leak from the hose joint at the filter. I dropped my generator onto my engine mount. I even lost my helmet visor fastener on one side when I slammed the visor down heading out onto the track!!! Everything else seemed OK. I even asked the scrutineers to look a little more closely to spot anything I missed - and you will rarely hear me say THAT to a scrutineer. Fail to prepare... prepare to fail. But that was what I was looking for from that session because this week I head off to Tasmania for our 2012 MG National Meeting. 1200 kilometres (745 miles) with a 9 hour ferry trip in the middle. BUT this will mean I can tick off 2 more tracks from my bucket list: BASKERVILLE RACEWAY: http://www.motorsportstas.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=75 and SYMMONS PLAINS: Dyno tomorrow morning and then 8 hours on the trailer to Melbourne! http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2028047#msg-2028047 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:05:07 -0500 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2030213#msg-2030213 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2030213#msg-2030213 blackmgb MG Motorsports Forum Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:29:56 -0500 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2029817#msg-2029817 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2029817#msg-2029817
]]> racer76 MG Motorsports Forum Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:13:04 -0500 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2029799#msg-2029799 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2029799#msg-2029799
The dyno guys are having hassles tuning my car so my nice, early departure today to break the 8 hour trip in two may be thrown a little. Looks like it will be a straight through drive on Wednesday (if they get the car finished today).

Seems they didn't like the fuel I had in the car so I had to drain it out this morning and replace it with fresh AVGAS. Looks like the compression was a little higher than I calculated.

Fingers crossed.]]> racer76 MG Motorsports Forum Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:56:34 -0500 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2028357#msg-2028357 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2028357#msg-2028357
Keep us informed how it goes

Fingers crossed for you

Tom]]> TomBrooksuk MG Motorsports Forum Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:50:45 -0500 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2028047#msg-2028047 http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?41,2028047,2028047#msg-2028047
An oil leak from the hose joint at the filter. I dropped my generator onto my engine mount. I even lost my helmet visor fastener on one side when I slammed the visor down heading out onto the track!!! Everything else seemed OK. I even asked the scrutineers to look a little more closely to spot anything I missed - and you will rarely hear me say THAT to a scrutineer.

Fail to prepare... prepare to fail.

But that was what I was looking for from that session because this week I head off to Tasmania for our 2012 MG National Meeting. 1200 kilometres (745 miles) with a 9 hour ferry trip in the middle.

BUT this will mean I can tick off 2 more tracks from my bucket list:

BASKERVILLE RACEWAY: http://www.motorsportstas.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=75


and

SYMMONS PLAINS:




Dyno tomorrow morning and then 8 hours on the trailer to Melbourne!]]> racer76 MG Motorsports Forum Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:41:20 -0500