Righty
Some of you may have been aware that I pranged the Cordoba in December when I ran into the back of a transit's tow bar causing a fair bit of damage - requiring a new bumper, wing, gril, headlight and a new front panel and a little bit of straightening to the chassis leg - was ever so lucky that the alloy radiator wasnt harmed in anyway which would of been disasterous!
Touring car style repair, fortunetly RPM have ther own spraybooth and was able to spray and fit the new panels whilst it was in for Mapping.
Abandoned the idea of having cooling holes in the number plate recess as this was causing the engine to run too cool - I had previously experimented with the previous bumper by tanktaping up the holes and was surprised what effect it had!
One of the bushes on the wishbones was flapping about like crazy so fitted polybushes, big thanks to Roly for lending me a set of wishbones!
Whilst the bodywork was receiving attention the lid of the airbox was smoothed and blown over in Magic Black to match
Need to have a rethink with the fixings that hold down the lid as they have a tendence to vibrate loose - they're glued in with mastic sealent fo now but need to think of somthing better.
25 row oil cooler deemed overkill has been replaced by a smaller 12 row item, never saw the temp read above 110 around Brands Hatch so thats working ok
TBC......
Some of you may have been aware that I pranged the Cordoba in December when I ran into the back of a transit's tow bar causing a fair bit of damage - requiring a new bumper, wing, gril, headlight and a new front panel and a little bit of straightening to the chassis leg - was ever so lucky that the alloy radiator wasnt harmed in anyway which would of been disasterous!
Touring car style repair
, fortunetly RPM have ther own spraybooth and was able to spray and fit the new panels whilst it was in for Mapping.
Abandoned the idea of having cooling holes in the number plate recess as this was causing the engine to run too cool - I had previously experimented with the previous bumper by tanktaping up the holes and was surprised what effect it had!
One of the bushes on the wishbones was flapping about like crazy so fitted polybushes, big thanks to Roly for lending me a set of wishbones!
Whilst the bodywork was receiving attention the lid of the airbox was smoothed and blown over in Magic Black to match
Need to have a rethink with the fixings that hold down the lid as they have a tendence to vibrate loose - they're glued in with mastic sealent fo now but need to think of somthing better.
25 row oil cooler deemed overkill has been replaced by a smaller 12 row item, never saw the temp read above 110 around Brands Hatch so thats working ok
TBC......
Results from Sundays RR day at AMD in Thurrock
Video of dyno run at AMD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4KpJoRKucI
Some creases to iron out and areas to improve on (airbox design & exhuast) but its very encouraging and am very pleased with it so far
Video of dyno run at AMD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4KpJoRKucI
Some creases to iron out and areas to improve on (airbox design & exhuast) but its very encouraging and am very pleased with it so far
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Cheers, yes I am
tbh cant really see how much of a difference the lower brace makes but its on and staying.
tbh cant really see how much of a difference the lower brace makes but its on and staying.
It re-invigorated my interest for the project thats for sure and its put a big
on my face again out on track and thats what really matters - it'll be interesting what it does on Awesome's rollers this weekend and work out where we go from there.
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Great to see it back running and providing the necessary goods!
Look forward to seeing it later this year sometime
Top work
Look forward to seeing it later this year sometime
Top work
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