Fun at Elvington

[Hedgehog Dodger]

I had to get the AA home!!!

Far too much smoke bellowing out for my liking and getting lots of toots from other drivers!!!!

Thanks to all the guys who helped out especially to Andy Forster and his mate...would have been lost without you guys! Hope I didnt pollute the GTO too much!!!

Will let you know how everything gets on........now to tell the missus, erm....they just fell off

Did Mitch stay trackday happy.......lol he was loving that circuit!

[Dale_V]

sorry to hear that

oh and I was the nutter swerving accross the road having a glance at your car while you was on the AA truck

Look in the spotted section

[Hedgehog Dodger]

sorry to hear that

oh and I was the nutter swerving accross the road having a glance at your car while you was on the AA truck

Look in the spotted section

LOL...yeah man I saw that...you nearly needed an AA van as you hit the central reservation!!!!

Pah...its only a car, its the missus I am worried about, she hasn't seen it yet It was going to happen sooner or later, just had to happen 100 miles from home!

[Dale_V]

LOL...yeah man I saw that...you nearly needed an AA van as you hit the central reservation!!!!

haha thats what the white rumble strips are for

[craig]

I had to get the AA home!!!

Far too much smoke bellowing out for my liking and getting lots of toots from other drivers!!!!

Thanks to all the guys who helped out especially to Andy Forster and his mate...would have been lost without you guys! Hope I didnt pollute the GTO too much!!!

Will let you know how everything gets on........now to tell the missus, erm....they just fell off

Did Mitch stay trackday happy.......lol he was loving that circuit!

Damn that sucks Hedgy!

[Andy F]

I had to get the AA home!!!

Far too much smoke bellowing out for my liking and getting lots of toots from other drivers!!!!

Thanks to all the guys who helped out especially to Andy Forster and his mate...would have been lost without you guys! Hope I didnt pollute the GTO too much!!!

Will let you know how everything gets on........now to tell the missus, erm....they just fell off

Did Mitch stay trackday happy.......lol he was loving that circuit!

[michael]

Bad luck but possibly a blessing giving the other minor niggles you've had with the engine - time to finally get it all sorted out ready for the racing season to get started.

Never ideal to have this kind of expense but if you take Steve in the car bad things happen......

[stevecordiner]

It was definitely a sad day for the bicuit tin Just hoe you gt it sorted soon, the car wasn't half quick though!!! I dred to think what it was like when you were running 2 bar on it

Rip it open and get it sorted out. Ignore the missus, just tell her you found the repair bits

I think the AA was a good idea, there was a lot of smoke coming out of it


"but if you take Steve in the car bad things happen......"

LOL ... just for that next time I want a ride in the supra

[JJ]

Bad luck dan ! Saw the smoke it was belching out.

Carry out a compression check... if that proves to be fine, have a look at the turbo, as pointed out, there seemed to be a great deal of residue oil around the downpipe flange on the turbine, indicating either oil being pushed out of the cylinders, or turbo failure... either way, you will get excessive smoke.

Doesn't answer why your getting so much gas venting from the PCV line... that usually indicates piston cracked or ringlands cracked allowing the burnt oil during combustion to pass the rings and exit straight out the PCV line.

Hope you sorted it soon.

Nice meeting Si yesterday and a couple of others. Good meeting up with the usual trackday trawlers, jonno needing some no nails the next time to keep the engine bay together and the body work too !! Neil "Cone-eater" Johnson !!!

Michael " 2 mpg" Canny was enjoying himself too having only covered 2 laps and half a tank gone.

Anyone see that 200 sx drift car with the bible basher fish symbol on the back... drifter but man of the cloth ?? is that possible !!???

Thou shant not sin, but put the rear into a full opposite lock and get black flagged !!!

Couple of breakdowns spotted, usual reno 5 gt turbo, as michael pointed out the uncommon heat related problems to my suprised couple of porsches ( 944 turbo ) variety also gave up !! Couple of scoobies cooking up ( god help him in the summer ! ) and a nice XR2 with severe rod knock, didn't even manage a lap before putting a piston out fo the side wall !! Elvington definitely claimed a few yesterday

[Sidewinder]

Couple of scoobies cooking up ( god help him in the summer ! )

Tell me about it. My ol' Scoob would overheat at the drop of a hat on the road, so gawd knows what they're like on the track.

[MR2Mania]

Sounds like it was a good day, apart from the attrition.

I hope AndyF wasn't tempted to take his out?

[JJ]

hope AndyF wasn't tempted to take his out?

Lucky I didn't buy his ticket off him, my dump valves dumping oil vapour / oil !! damn crap turbos !

I'm gonna buy a honda !

[MR2Mania]

Lucky I didn't buy his ticket off him, my dump valves dumping oil vapour / oil !! damn crap turbos !

What turbo have you got, mate (I'm guessing hybrid CT26 or CT20b), and where was it built?

I'm gonna buy a honda !

PLEASE, JJ, can you refrain from swearing on this forum???

[michael]

A few pics:

http://www.megaboost.co.uk/supra/mine/e ... -29-01-05/

Unfortunately pic quality drops when I use digital zoom but they aren't all terrible.... just most

[jonno]

Nice meeting Si yesterday and a couple of others. Good meeting up with the usual trackday trawlers, jonno needing some no nails the next time to keep the engine bay together and the body work too !! Neil "Cone-eater" Johnson !!!

Nobody told me you were supposed to drive "inside" the cones, I thought it was a slalom?

[jonno]

Is that bit supposed to be touching the ground?

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[Rowland]

I also had a great day at Elvington too.
Tyres were utter rubbish in the wet with some massive oversteer moments!
In the afternoon when the track dried out I was far happier with more controlled oversteer and surprising lack of understeer - most enjoyable!
There's always a dickhead at every trackday and for me it was an arrogant to$$er in a caterfield using his horn when my g/f was going through a slow chicane.
Prompt strong words were had as soon as his helmet was removed!!
Nice to see a few familiar faces as always.

My pic's are here but are all of us, images 1-11. Thankyou kindly to Mr Canny for his photography stiles! Well done for catching pic no7 mate!!

http://photobucket.com/albums/v288/Rowl ... C00765.jpg

[MR2daron]

I went to Elvington a few times in 2004 for the RWYB days.. didn't realise they were open again

[JJ]

There's always a dickhead at every trackday and for me it was an arrogant to$$er in a caterfield using his horn when my g/f was going through a slow chicane.

Rowland, that dudes horn was stuck on, I'm sure it wasn't intentional !! he had to pull over a couple of times to stop immobilise it !!

Tyres were utter rubbish in the wet with some massive oversteer moments!

You were the white MR2 with slick on the back we'ren't you ??? saw a few entertaining moments from you !!

Sorry I didn't meet you chap, you were either doing 50 laps or the car was parked up, couldn't work out which one you were !!!

[michael]

There's always a dickhead at every trackday and for me it was an arrogant to$$er in a caterfield using his horn when my g/f was going through a slow chicane.

Rowland, that dudes horn was stuck on, I'm sure it wasn't intentional !! he had to pull over a couple of times to stop immobilise it !!

I think there was another guy in a white one that liked to give people a toot if he thought he was entitled to pass them on a corner or a similar non overtaking place.

Quite a few tools on the track on Saturday IMO, not newbies, just kn0bheads who seemed to be out to prove something