This weekend I have mostly being:

Gilly said:
How many owners of a supercharged VTR would you expect to not be able to drive? :confused:
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He bought it off another owner who had supercharged it. I quote the current owner:

"have to say i was very impressed with the times a lot of the near std vtr's were running at Kames, and im very dissapointed with the performance of my s/c vtr, having said that the car has'nt been right since the day i bought it!, convinced my bog std vtr would'nt have been much slower round the track and a few track driving lessons would'nt go amiss"
 
Friend of mine Supercharged his 106 GTi.

It was never the same after, he had LOADS of problems with it and eventually sold it at great loss.
 
agw_01 said:
What sort of problems did he have with it Fox?
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It was a few years ago now - 2 or 3 at least - so I can't remember exactly but it never ran smoothly, was constantly breaking down, in the end he sent it to a company in Scotland to more or less rebuild the engine. He was bitterly dissapointed :(

It worked sometimes though and when it did it was seriously rapid.
 
:( That's a shame.

I'm guessing this was on standard internals though. Someone on Rovertech tried strapping a turbo to a NASP 2 litre T16 engine.

Even though he only put 5psi through it, he soon put a hole in one of the pistons.
 
When a supercharged VTR works well its a pretty rapid car but there are a lot that dont. I think half of it depends on the install and what kind of life the engines had previously, some like to turn to butter, others seem to be built like tanks.

Gilly said:
How many owners of a supercharged VTR would you expect to not be able to drive? :confused:

Your point was fine, but saying everything is on the driver and doesn't matter what car you're in is about as far off the mark as you get without facing the other way :p
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Quite a few, maybe its just the area round here thats stunted my view on certain peeps and their driving styles, e.g. the P1 owner who never went about 50mph, nice way to save on petrol but why buy a car like that?

Everything isnt on the driver but at the end of the day its a rather large percentage, especially when on a track. Cars dont drive themselves ;).
 
Smiley Man said:
thats just up the road from me, might be worth taking a look :)
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Bedford looks good to me as well. :D

I'd be interested in a cheap track day, just somewhere to test the mx-5 before going to a proper session.

So if we got enough people would we just have the track to ourselves, doing timed runs and stuff?
 
bookatrack.com is ok for looking at prices for various circuits, not sure if they're cheap compared to others though but it lists most tracks.
 
Bedford is a big circuit though, and for the reasons already discussed, a small sprint circuit would probably suit better.
 
MonkeyMan said:
Bedford looks good to me as well. :D

I'd be interested in a cheap track day, just somewhere to test the mx-5 before going to a proper session.

So if we got enough people would we just have the track to ourselves, doing timed runs and stuff?
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i wouldnt be able to take my car round there, but ive got a mate who would be willing to rag the nads off his :D

i dont know that area hugely well, but if you're seriously interested in the bedford autodrome, i am willing to help seeing as i am local (about a 30min drive there, all on some rather nice roads :D)

andi - from what i can see there are lots of different track configurations :confused:

" The complex includes four main separate circuits, that can be run concurrently, amalgamated to form a 3.6 mile "Gran Turismo" circuit, or used in one of no fewer than 34 different configurations. Nowhere in the world can such a variety of tracks be enjoyed at one site."
 
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I dont really care what type of circuit it is. I probably wont even get into full boost on a tight circuit. Will probably get beaten by the saxo's, but who cares. Its all for fun.

Hmmm, might bring my bike instead. :cool:
 
Smiley Man said:
andi - from what i can see there are lots of different track configurations :confused:

" The complex includes four main separate circuits, that can be run concurrently, amalgamated to form a 3.6 mile "Gran Turismo" circuit, or used in one of no fewer than 34 different configurations. Nowhere in the world can such a variety of tracks be enjoyed at one site."
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I didn't mean the size of the track layout itself, I meant its a big place, with big prices. I don't know exact prices for Bedford, but I imagine they'll be similar to other big circuits, which rules out OcUK hiring it for the day, meaning we'd all have to try and book into an open pit session (which when I looked were £150-200 each) which was done before and not well attended.
 
The thing that would be good about a sprint track to ourselves is that it would be very much like the RR day - a nice social event as well, without others around.
 
[TW]Fox said:
The thing that would be good about a sprint track to ourselves is that it would be very much like the RR day - a nice social event as well, without others around.
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As I said, I can contact the organiser of the MLR days at Haynes - see what the deal is there.
 
-westy- said:
As I said, I can contact the organiser of the MLR days at Haynes - see what the deal is there.
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I really dont like the idea of a track with no runoff.

It's taking me long enough to get a 530, without then having to spend ages rebuilding it after slamming it into a hard object :p
 
Why not something like an airfield day? Kemble perhaps? I've seen a video of a FRP racing around Kemble airfield.

Neil.
 
[TW]Fox said:
I really dont like the idea of a track with no runoff.

It's taking me long enough to get a 530, without then having to spend ages rebuilding it after slamming it into a hard object :p
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I love to see anyone try to throw a 5-series round Haynes. I'm not saying the don't handle (I was very impressed with Merlin's bro's), but seriously, it would be like threading a needle after 2 litres of Absinthe......
 
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