To be dead honest I'm not in any hurry to drive the car the way it was this year at any speed much above what I was doing.....I'm a thrillseeker , but there are limits.
What was it doing?---was it doing its "own" walk-a-bout?
Ahhhh, my apologies Bill, I thought you were talking about the heads!!!!!!!....I notice you did an edit......including the first line, once again sorry...the attempt at humor probably came across as being snippy.....I was taking the P out of our postal service, I probably wasn't exaggerating much...now, down to the bizzo.
The car was "live" from third gear on. The track was rougher this year than last and there was a stronger prevailing wind but I think the reason was more than likely that I had given the car more toe in than last year and the actual alignment was probably less than satisfactory. It didn't seem to like it. Last year the car was incredibly straight, I'm not kidding , if there was room you could have put your hands behind your head....It was a case of steer it where you wanted it to be on the track, there was no troublesome feedback through the system. This year it was a handful , two , actually. On my first fast run it hit a bit of rough track, then got belted by the wind and then I spun the rears and each time it went full almost width, a complete contrast to the previous years behavior when I just tooled down the right hand side of the track with the markers whizzing by. In the 190's I didn't feel like I had time to do anything other than look as far as I could down the track and aim the car at that.....if I started to navigate via the markers on one side it upset the car, that's what makes me feel it was too much toe, it was making tiny darts from side to side. On the last run by the five mile I had my hands at 10 and four O'clock and was driving in long arcs.
It was fun, but it shows poor preparation to be perfectly honest with everyone here . When I said
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I'm not in any hurry to drive the car the way it was this year at any speed much above what I was doing"
I meant that it is pointless to try and power or gear the car further if it's going to handle like that because it's more than likely going to spin, or hit a marker, or worse, a clock. That's a waste of everybody's time and effort and of the few available runs we get.Part of the problem is that the steering box is not indexed on the frame so anytime something in the pedal box or steering has to be moved it's not possible to set the steering up exactly how it was, that is just poor design on our part. The Colonel is keen to use a rack instead, that involves a pretty serious re-build in that area as it is a very busy part of the car, something I'm not in a real hurry to do.I WILL be setting the steering box up so it cannot move.
That was theory one. Theory two that I have involves increased engine vibration.....................
I'm going out there today to do some housework and have a bit of a stare at the car...... I'll let you all know how it goes....
got another mention in "Cruzin" magazine...I've tried to post it but it came up as a tif image, photobucket won't take it....any tips?
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