The drive shaft held up to 60 miles of abuse at Anglesey over the weekend.
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8 stages saturday evening and 8 stages sunday morning.
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It was all going swimmingly until stage 15 when we lost syncro on 2nd which made things a bit chellenging.
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The this annoyance caused us to overshot a square right off one of the small service roads up over the top near rocket.
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We were stuck in the mud for 10mins.
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We were helped out of the mud by the crew of a Subaru WRC who had lost a wheel near by so came to our assistance.
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The result was a stage max of 12mins which made a good finish impossible.
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We were on for 12th or 13th overall which we were getting rather excited about, the
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'off' dropped us to 19th.
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We've got until feb to sort out the box, this opens up a few options.
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Do we get it rebuilt with standard bits? Uprated standard bits from Jubu? A 5:1 final drive with standard ratios? A full dog gearset with 5:1 final drive and shorter ratios?
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Another standard Exige box from the scrappers?
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I know which one I want, but the
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£3,000 price tag is a bit of a hurdle.
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