328i Sport track project - Cadwell June 09

Post by **Stuart** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:33 pm

What are you up to then Andrea?? Which car are you sorting out now?

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:26 pm

Very very nice Tommy !!!!!!

Post by **Ben** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:48 am

looks awesome - great choice of colour, cage and interior look the business too

blackskygtr · Post by **blackskygtr** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:31 pm

I Love the colour mate Really suits the car.
As for the graphics i am sure there will be a couple on there!!!!
BigPower renewal pack required me thinks LOL

Jay

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:42 pm

Cheers all. Since the car is up in Cheshire, I keep finding myself looking at the photos - so sad. Well, I'll see it and drive it tomorrow Woo Hoooo!!!

Never done Silverstone before so really looking forward to it.

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:03 pm

done silverstone gp last year tommy and absolutely loved it , have fun mate

cheers

jason

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:10 pm

Little update

After Silverstone we found that we'd completely ripped the engine mounts from the cross member to which they attach

So the car has been to a garage to have the cross member welded up and reinforced. In the words of the mechanic 'you'll have to rip off the entire front end before you suffer another cross member failure' :lol:

Obviously, new engine mounts have been installed along with new trans mounts and we had the car weighed too. The measured weight was 1188kgs with an indicated half tank of fuel which I'm pretty happy with. What I'm happier with is the corner weights of the car - they're just about bang on requiring very little adjustment so we saved our money and didn't bother having it done.

In other news, I ordered some body parts today. I'll opst up photos in a couple of weeks when we've hopefully received, sprayed and fitted them.

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:35 pm

you must be pleased with the weight tommy as you still have a few kg's to go by my reckoning . i am paying the price for fitting the fourth road bridge in my car :roll:

cheers

jason

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:47 pm

Yes Jason pretty happy with the weight since there's more to do in the future in the boot, bonnet, glass, driver door. What surprised me though, now that I've looked into it more deeply, is the standard weight of the car is 1320kgs excluding options. It felt so much heavier in comparison to, say, my old Accord Type R which was 1300kgs.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:22 am

Just done Anglesey - wow what a place. We had four seasons in a day and they were all fun. When the sun came out, it was just stunningly beautiful. Very nice to be hooning around a track, come over a brow and see cliffs and the sea in front of you!

I loved the track. Fast and undulating although the day itself was a little too crowded. However, I can thoroughly recommend it if you can stomach the drive. It took me 7 hours

Anyway I'm waiting to process my video but in the meantime I found some on vimeo. I remember this session very well. This black mk1 Golf went very well (a VAG 20V turbo I believe) and I followed for a couple of laps before making a move to chase after the GT3RS. I come into view at 9:06

http://www.vimeo.com/4724064