Bigpower

Does anyone know whether or not the weights of car, driver and half a tank of fuel which were to form part of the handicap process for the 2009 BP sprint handicap were recorded and put on the forum I have searched high and low and cant find them so if any computer whiz knows where they are can you give me a clue or post them up
Cheers

Maffster is looking into this Harry I also searched but I think it's been archived.

Thanks Stuart really want to see if I am still a fat bastard or not and what weight saving I might need to make on the car, probably ranges between a bit of sound proffing to maybe a whole interior

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Here you go Harry
87kgs for you and 306bhp for the car..............so Russ has one more bhp than yours

Thanks Stuart, in hindsight I doubt I was getting 306 consistently the car is much smoother and accelerates much better now with just 271 bhp recorded at APT but I am sure that my car is considerably lighter than ole yella, still it makes him smile. just need to see how much of the 87 remains (+/- quite a bit)

Is yours an Sti Harry? Did you ever post up a project thread of any kind? I know it's Mike's old one, but know nothing of the car itself.........

No it`s a 1995 WRX Stuart, which I bought from Mikey Shearing in Feb 2009 the car when purchased was as the detail below
Subaru impreza silver 4 door 1995 spec as follows.
alloy bonnet
p1 lip spoiler front bumper
front mount intercooler
alloy pulleys
lightened flywheel
recent new clutch
4 pot Subaru brakes/ braided lines
leda ajustable suspension 2 1/4
strut brace
td05 turbo
full 3 inch haywood and scott system turbo back
mapped ecu with piggy back dastec 330 bhp
quick shift stick
17 inch gold oz wheels with new kumho tyres
v6 rear spoiler
standard interior
This car is the best thing you could buy to start sprinting with it belongs to mike shearing good friend of mine it has not had a hard life very clean car well maintained and ready to go. Will come with 1 years mot.

To be honest the car is so well set up that I have done very little to it since the balance on track is excellent, the only thing that I have changed is the ECU, it came with a piggy back and boost control was via a mechanical adjuster which I dumped as it was unreliable.
I replaced the piggy back with an ESL and Duncan Graham (racedynamix) set it up live on road as requested the bias is towards a road friendly car something like 60/40. Mike B has offered considerable support when I have run into problems Usually self inflicted but the overriding advice has been to keep it as standard as possible which I have followed.

I think the car me and half a tank of fuel weigh in at something around 1175kg so with a boost of 1 bar the engine delivers 271 bhp it is delivering around 230 bhp/tonne, in truth this gives pretty good performance on track it can carry a fair degree of speed into and through the corner and it is fairly easy on brakes.

All in all it is a nice car that was well maintained and prepared before I got it and I hope I have kept this up, it does everything that I ask of it and in fairness when pushed hard is demanding of my driving talent (or lack of it)

Hope this gives a bit of an insight into my Subaru

It does Harry, it does. I had no idea that yours was so light- no wonder it's quick.

Yeah, I don't know where such a light weight has come from but when you feel the panels (doors etc) compared to say ole yella it does feel very light,also there doesn't appear to be mechanical door locks only electric release perhaps i need to ask around, I did some research and found that the Japanese Domestic Scooby sport weighed 1050kg so who knows what the history was before being imported was

Harry, we need to take a trip up the weighbridge mate. Remember things have changed since 09.