Zetec to Kent conversions - Page 2

blue nose · 24 Feb 2004, 23:54 (Ref:884707)

About £12000 plus Chris to you mate LOL

blue nose · 24 Feb 2004, 23:59 (Ref:884711)

We have a spare car you can test next week..

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 09:41 (Ref:884979)

Walshy the wider track is legal the down side is when they have a bump it tends to go pear shaped.You can still bang wheels(not that I want to)and get away with it.

kartingdad · 25 Feb 2004, 09:49 (Ref:884985)

If your car was 2 seconds a lap quicker in the wet than the other cars, waht were they- lada's?

IMHO - no way.

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 09:50 (Ref:884987)

one was yours I thought it was a Swift!!

kartingdad · 25 Feb 2004, 10:17 (Ref:885025)

Yawn

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 10:23 (Ref:885029)

It looks like your losing sleep over it LOL

darcym · 25 Feb 2004, 10:31 (Ref:885044)

I'm still up for trying one of these.

If there is a spare car going for a test/race in the NW championship drop me a PM with details. I can leave the Swift down south and try something new...just for fun.

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 10:36 (Ref:885050)

Give John at Medina a ring he will sort it out for you darcym.

sprocket · 25 Feb 2004, 12:09 (Ref:885136)

I see there are 2 ff1600 series this year!!

1)Speculation racing(or am i running the best car!!)
2)Proper racing which is done on a circuit and is enjoyable to watch & commentate on!!

Why not work on Roger Penske theory "Always look for the unfair advantage" Its found in the workshop/testing.
-------------------------------------------------------------Remember in April @ OP "When the flag drops the "BU----IT STOPS"
or adopt the Motto "Speculation does not win Races" but driving does!!

Redracer77 · 25 Feb 2004, 12:19 (Ref:885139)

Young Mr Sproket, Clubff1600.co.uk will report on all pre season test days with times and reports so no driver will be able to hide if they don't perform.

GolddustMini · 25 Feb 2004, 22:10 (Ref:885617)

but tests arnt times are they so how are you gonna get all the times???

Ian Sowman · 25 Feb 2004, 22:37 (Ref:885636)

I wondered that myself!

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 23:38 (Ref:885699)

Chris are you going to follow us to the first test of the season with your stop watch? or do you want a report.
As Jamie put it most tests are for setting up a car and not your best time...

Redracer77 · 25 Feb 2004, 23:47 (Ref:885707)

Times may not be important but the people who will read clubff1600.co.uk will want to know what has been going on. I will get to most test days and if I can not make it then my trusty Swift will be around. Not sure about the rest of the Championship as it will be up to them to arrange the info

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 23:49 (Ref:885709)

Do you have a date when it starts?

Redracer77 · 25 Feb 2004, 23:53 (Ref:885712)

the website?

blue nose · 25 Feb 2004, 23:54 (Ref:885714)

Thats the one.

Redracer77 · 26 Feb 2004, 00:04 (Ref:885722)

the frame work went live on our server at work this morning and we have been adding info all day so we should have it up to speed by the Anglesey Test day.

Ian to answer your PM all Championships (7 in total) will be live on the 13th

1) NWFF
2) SOM
3) CCFF
4) SFF
5) HFF
6) CFF
7) NI FF

When my company does something we do it right first time....

JnrJnr · 26 Feb 2004, 00:24 (Ref:885734)

Times from testing NWFFORD at oulton/anglesy/combe or wherever there is a regional championship will be interesting to everyone, and relevant. Lets face it, FF1600 cars have been around for a while and off the shelf set ups work well enough to give an indication of times (just ask stuart because thats all we ever ran).

Even if you are running a newer zetec conversion, Medina already know how to set up the cars - thats already been proven.

Times will invariably come down as people get more experienced though, but any testing in these championships will show who will be the strongest straight away i believe.

GolddustMini · 26 Feb 2004, 00:54 (Ref:885746)

yeh but how do they get the times of other drivers, most peeps aint gonna give there datalogger timesheets to people are they, theres generally no official timing done at tests anyway....

how this gonna work then?

Redracer77 · 26 Feb 2004, 09:36 (Ref:885997)

Jamie you stick to drinking tea playing on the interweb and leave the rest to us!!

JNWRF01 · 26 Feb 2004, 09:57 (Ref:886020)

Out of interest - has anyone tried converting a latter day Swift or Ray to kent form? If so how helpful are the factory etc etc. There are several very cheap Rays (01-03s) and Swifts (99s) for sale...just wondering if any has any thoughts...

JustinDawkins · 26 Feb 2004, 10:09 (Ref:886032)

I would emagine that support from Bert Ray would be very good, hes pretty flexible for parts etc.

50-SIX · 26 Feb 2004, 10:18 (Ref:886041)

Well to me it sounds pretty simple, you just tell Chris your best time of the day. I can't see reasons why anyone would want to keep it to themselves, after all, I always no the times of my closest rivals as I have always got my brother with the watch on them!

"Tests are for setting the car up, not best times"
I don't know about anyone else but I always do the best time I can with any car setup during testing, else what is the point in being out there! Then you know a setup is better when the times come down, cos what feels right aint always the quickest.

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