With the last of the Chelmsford MC Gymkhana's coming up next weekend. This weekend was spent prepping the car for a big push to try and take on Tony Clements in the challenge for the CMC Gymkhana Championship which we are currently both jointly leading after three rounds so far.
The first job was a late Friday afternoon trip to the Turner Brothers in St. Albans to collect my new front tyres - some part-worn Yokohama A021R's bought for a very good deal. Thanks to the Rover Centre http://www.roverofstalbans.co.uk/ guys for fitting them and other tyres & the tea ;)
Yesterday and today a lot of time was spent removing the sound proofing (tar like material) from under the rear seats and the drivers footwell. This is quite a dull and time consuming job, but one which is very useful as i removed over 4kgs of excess weight from the car. The navs footwell will have to weight as there is a lot of wiring and other bits to remove to do that side.
I also removed all the trim as gymkhana's don't require cars in my class to have trim, this increased the weight saving to ~7.5kgs
I also had a play with altering settings on the Emerald ECU, this was great fun and easy to do with the option to do 'live' updates to the ECU, and changes to different maps.
The maps are now set-up to :-
1.) ME Adjusted; Increased rev limit (6900RPM), Cooling Fans start temp reduced, increased idle speed (to cope with large current draw of spots etc...)
2.) Standard as per Rolling Road Emerald 'Dave Walker' Map
3.) Standard as per Rolling Road Emerald 'Dave Walker' Map, but with a much reduced cooling fan starting temp, in case of cooling system issues.
Today i worked on changing the front wishbone bushes and ARB drop-links, as these were worn and very worn (see pic) in some cases.
This was quite a battle at times to a) remove the bushes and b) to refit the wishbones as the new bushes were a little bit wider.
The new bushes were Superflex ones to reduce wheel movement.
The rest of the jobs involved fitting the appropriate wheels/tyres - one rear tyre which is on its ~12 event (gymkhana, sprint, autosolo) now! A full bolt check (front top mounts were a bit loose...) and finally spray painting the floorpan as all the gravel from the bullnose had removed all the paint from the sills!
The first job was a late Friday afternoon trip to the Turner Brothers in St. Albans to collect my new front tyres - some part-worn Yokohama A021R's bought for a very good deal. Thanks to the Rover Centre http://www.roverofstalbans.co.uk/ guys for fitting them and other tyres & the tea ;)
Yesterday and today a lot of time was spent removing the sound proofing (tar like material) from under the rear seats and the drivers footwell. This is quite a dull and time consuming job, but one which is very useful as i removed over 4kgs of excess weight from the car. The navs footwell will have to weight as there is a lot of wiring and other bits to remove to do that side.
I also removed all the trim as gymkhana's don't require cars in my class to have trim, this increased the weight saving to ~7.5kgs
I also had a play with altering settings on the Emerald ECU, this was great fun and easy to do with the option to do 'live' updates to the ECU, and changes to different maps.
The maps are now set-up to :-
1.) ME Adjusted; Increased rev limit (6900RPM), Cooling Fans start temp reduced, increased idle speed (to cope with large current draw of spots etc...)
2.) Standard as per Rolling Road Emerald 'Dave Walker' Map
3.) Standard as per Rolling Road Emerald 'Dave Walker' Map, but with a much reduced cooling fan starting temp, in case of cooling system issues.
Today i worked on changing the front wishbone bushes and ARB drop-links, as these were worn and very worn (see pic) in some cases.
This was quite a battle at times to a) remove the bushes and b) to refit the wishbones as the new bushes were a little bit wider.
The new bushes were Superflex ones to reduce wheel movement.
The rest of the jobs involved fitting the appropriate wheels/tyres - one rear tyre which is on its ~12 event (gymkhana, sprint, autosolo) now! A full bolt check (front top mounts were a bit loose...) and finally spray painting the floorpan as all the gravel from the bullnose had removed all the paint from the sills!
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