116. The off season is also very busy

So as I am freeing here in the UK waiting for completion on my house sale so I can go join my wife in Spain I may as well do another update, seeing as the TV is already halfway to Valencia. We racer types don't just park our race cars up for the winter and put our feet up oh no! There is always lots to do usually bound with  trying to go faster. We had a reasonable year this year we got the car back into the 8 second zone and we got some sort of reliability and later in the year with Steve in the hot seat we even won some points!!! and Steve got the car down to 8.7 seconds which was brilliant. But not fast or quick enough oh no.

First things first the team had to return the borrowed flex plate back to its original owner, Mike Oates and here was some investigation required in the drive train so last weekend Steve and Dave and all made the trip on a rather wet weekend up to the storage unit near Bedford.

After a quick call to yours truly for the combination of one of the padlocks they were at it big time and  very quickly the body panels were off and all sorts of bit and pieces were laying on the floor of the trailer, now having mentioned the trailer there is not a lot of room in it but some how three guys got the car stripped in that confined space.

In no time the flex plates were swapped over and the axle was lying on the floor, he axle had grown a leak or two and needed some TLC so Steve is going to take it home with him and sort it out.

Then it was off to see a man about a camshaft, the cam shaft we have been running for the last 4 years has a very short duration so time for a better one after some serious Steve type research we now have a longer duration cam and a lighter flex plate which should help no end will be even better once the trans brake is sorted out, which All rewired for us while Steve and Dave ripped the mechanical stuff apart, Some other research b Steve has found that we should be running in the top end of the 7's with our set up but it looks like we need bigger heads we will see in the mean time we should be catching up with Mark the Ball-beaker team depending on how much work they have done over the close season of course...bring it on!!!