Inside Team TNT

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:46 pm

Bloody Hayward........he's still got the poxy four pot in that Evo of his that used to do track days, and yet he's insistent that V8's are the way forwards. I'm all for normally aspirated engines but you would have thought he'd start practising what he preaches

gary@apt · Post by **gary@apt** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:18 pm

lol i might get mine out on track soon...

after all i seen recent i think id find it hard to build any thing with out a v8 in it

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:39 pm

We could start a n/a V8 wing of BP.

It'd be a bit exclusive though, if you keep out those that want and only allow those that have

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:19 am

stuart wrote:The only thing to do if you were going for the higher powered option is to allow a good budget for proper, professional driver training. It's made a perceived World of difference to a few faces in TA and would serve your team well also.

Yep.

On event set up/race engineering is the next most important thing I would say. Having a plan and getting the car set up/optimised for most conditions/scenarios helps a huge amount. It means Bart can focus on driving it if tyre temps, pressures, susp set up, when to push, when not to push is communicated to him. Zen did an awesome job for me on this throughout this year.

chrislandy · Post by **chrislandy** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:34 am

gary@apt wrote:a v8 thats what you need!!

With twin turbos and a DTA

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:55 pm

We have records from all the circuits that we have driven, of tyre pressures, wing angle and bumper splitter combinations as well as feedback from Alan on how the car felt. We use this to roughly pre set the car before an event. On some of the rounds we have used a very basic 2-way radio set up. This has mainly been used for me to relay information to Alan, for next year this system will be improved upon allowing useable communication between Alan and myself:cuss:

We finally got the car handling about 90% of how Alan wants and likes, (I hate it) and now will have to start all over again

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:16 pm

Before we can start on the new car we needed to get the old car stripped, as it is only the shell that we are scrapping. So for the last 2 days we have been busy getting all the parts off.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:20 pm

The only thing of concern was that it would appear that at some point the crossmember has taken an impact, hard enough to have cracked it.

So that's now scrap.

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:52 pm

Oh bugger! Never mind boys, onwards and upwards!

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:04 pm

Almost finished with the dismantling of the car. Today we took off the rear diff, driveshafts, rear suspension and petrol tank. We can now start cleaning all this up ready for painting as it will be fitted to the new car.
I did make 1 little mistake:redface:. I popped into town and left Bart unsupervised:boxing_smiley:

I can't believe someone gave Bart a grinder:mad:

At the end of everyday working on the car we have to put everything away so the front of my house doesn't look like a breajers yard.