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We're getting too far out, there's no way I'm rawling up/across to Donington/Bath from Brighton :} Although I could tie it in with a weekend visit to where I used to live in Derbyshire ... :-) Thruxon btw tell me they will be doing track days next year. they are within the 3 hours you specifed :win...

they had to use up the old parts somehow, so some cars got a bit of both

we'll be there working, but hope to get a few laps in

i've got 1144's on the rear of my rally car (mk1a fronts) and they are good, a lot better than anything from ebc, green to grabby then no balls, yellow crap cold ok warm crap hot. strange, as we love the ebc yellowstuff on our mk1a track car :thumleft: never had any fade, and driven hard round most...

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I'd forgotten about this pic ! LOL

i think one of the mr2 race series raced at anglesey, so have a gander at their times

i really enjoyed meeting every one - old friends and new :thumleft: wii was ace - we all ROCK! i felt really stupid for drinking too much on friday, but glad i recovered enough to drive later in the day. I liked the opportunity i had to drive the club circuit. it was really great to have a go at thi...

Aww - shame about the cars bodywork
its seems this is a common theme at the moment.
hope you can find a good shell

advanced timing is usually what makes them pop all the time. the backfire is not that great if its gets to be all the time on lift-off.
small leaks will also do the same (ie like the chavs that used to put small holes in exhausts on purpose)

a case of wine suits me fine

Air con was available as a VERY expensive option in uk mk1s.
(read as 'no-one bothered', but if they went for the expensive black paint option and had money to burn, they i guess they could afford the air con option too, maybe cd player too?)

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waay too pricey, even for an import
think what you can buy for 5k at the moment.....

I presume you bled the heater matrix bit as well as the rad bleed point?
Also give the matrix hoses a bit of a squeeze to help circulate the air bubble/air lock there.

shame!
(but they told you so ^^^ )
not worth losing trackday money for the price of a good gasket!
hope you have spares for the engine so you get it sorted out okay

cadwell is an ace circuit for the mk1 too. would love to do cadders again now out track mk1 is more sorted.

After my SC burned to the ground i'm wary of anything burning off. oil can catch fire, and it depends on what else catches too.
perhaps get this sorted asap
(just my paranoid reply)

we tried the parada spec II's. they did loads of miles round spa circuit, but did suffer from tyre wall roll, but were pretty progressive. they are not the tyre on elises, the paradas are a good budget option. Yok Advan neova (or ?A039) i think were the elise tyres and the neova are loved by those t...

I see what you mean about the fronts on the slver one. its like he realised they weren't kade wide enoough, so just fitted them further out! not good. they should match the rear.
really nice look on the car though . love the alloys.

Doh! been there,done that

yes you can steam clean it, but pop plasic bags over stuff like the alternator. Oil will prob have gone down into the plug channel too, so clean this before removing the plugs to ensure nothing goes into the engine.

crikey - didn't know you needed a new engine. you've not had much luck with having to do stuff to that car you wil need to swap looms as well as the engine if you are swaping 1a to 1b, plus you need other 1b bits unless you are gettign a job lot - eg intake manifold, injectors, ecu..... easier to do...

Cool - good update so far Chris
Hope the dry build goes
sounds like its going to be awesome