leavingeasy - track 20vt

[leavingeasy]

I did a car limits driver training day today at North Weald airfield.

Car was awesome.

Driver remains rubbish.

But what it did show is how much the body flexes when you are really pushing hard!



next lap I picked up my grille!

[leavingeasy]

Friend of mine just sent a few pics from the car limits day. This is what they make you do. Sometimes you recover it, sometimes you dont!!

This time I did!





then it fell apart like a clown car!!





here's my mate Floyd rescuing the grille of the test circuit!!!



I'm fitting a new wing next week, making an airbox with a sexy cf NACA duct and the its off for paint.

Next month it's being abused for a magazine article. Can't wait!!

[leavingeasy]

Time to get a bit of work done on the old girl.

My patented cold air ducting to the air filter sucked quite frankly. It was always supposed to be a temp affair but I always seemed to find something else to do instead.

Today we bit the bullet and decided to fit a NACA duct.

Stage one was to make a pretty pattern and then cut it out




The result was a hole in my bonnet



Which was promptly filled



bonded in place



next was time to remove the knackered front wing



before loading it up and sending it off to the painters



Now do I need new tyres??



Should be finished by the end of the week- then I can fit my GolfGTI.co.uk stickers

[leavingeasy]

Picked up my car from the painters today.

From this:



to this (in £240!)




Next step was to fit the trim, indicators, newly painted bumper and new grille (no red stripe on this one)

From this



to this (in three hours)




Problem is the bloody thing REFUSES to start. Seems the crankshaft position sensor has finally quit

[leavingeasy]

Also fitted my stickers ready for the magazine article!!

Thanks JV



I'm preferring the non striped grille



but I need to make up some brake ducts rather than leaving these holes where the foggies used to be- I have some spare carbon fibre that should be a useful start



Here is the car with the old striped bumper and brake ducts



I also need to find another big bumper wheel arch trim- this one got broken when I span at Cadwell in the rain 

[leavingeasy]

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