Really enjoyed the final round, it was good to make the final as I improved my time again.
Had a couple of moments:
1. Nearly t-boned someone as I was passing one car very late and almost out braked myselft into another.
2. Whifbitze RX7 spun right in front of me
3. Subaru spun infront of me after I let him pass
4. Elise and DC5 spun right in front of me
5. Most serious - wheel nearly fell off.
Had a strange, getting worse vibration so came straight in. Brakes were smoking as I didn't do a cool down lap. Felt like a drive shaft or something. Turned out to be a very loose wheel.
6. Almost forgot, got a warning for cutting the chicane.
Someone had hit the cone out the way so I thought it was fair game to cut it slightly more.
Should end up in about 9th overall after today's decent points.
Decided to upgrade the rods and pistons to forged items as my head gasket had gone on FF7. Got the head skimmed, checked the bores and crank for wear to make sure they were within tolerance, fitted the new cams, metal head gasket and ARP head bolts on top of that. Upped the boost and increased the rev limit a tad too.
Fitted new brake discs too as my old ones were cracked and worn through the grooves.
Finally got it finished at 4am on Friday night so headed down on Saturday lunchime. Down the A68 to bed in the piston rings.
Car never missed a beat all weekend although I found the limit of the stock ECU boost cut when trying to run 2.2 bar so had to back it off to 2 bar.
Didn't really have time to set it up properly so it was only really holding 1.9 ish.
The engine seems to have loosened up nicely now as it was very strong on the way home on low boost.
So a 1000 mile trip with a track day did the trick.
(without the racing!)
