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We are in lancashire Adam, anything could happen ! Should be there work permitting.....

Here are a few of my holiday pictures for anyone who may be interested. A cracking little cafe right next door to where we stayed in Keswick called The Filling Station always had interesting stuff parked outside and lots of yummy bikers. We managed to find a V8 Marlin who was also on holiday. Heading out to the Honister Pass, video going on YouTube soon. That's all folks, hope you enjoy.

But I provided the early results and put my blog second!

I'm a bit lost! Car Driving - tick Car Blatting - tick Car Tracking - tick Car Sprinting - tick Car Cleaning - mmmm! Must check Wikipedia for a definition

Well, had a very constructive trip up to Northampton Motorsport on Saturday. As I sort of expected, it wasn’t going to be as simple as just setting up the existing dampers and doing the geo from there – there are a couple of issues with the existing set-up. First of all, while the fronts have the full 20-odd clicks of adjustment, the adjusters on the rears are FUBAR. On one side I have 5 clicks, and on the other none. Hmm. Being a Saturday we weren’t able to get any replacements there and then, so given that the geo was so far out (pics to follow this evening when I can get them off my phone) I opted to continue with the corner-weight and geo set-up. First off, to stop the rear tyre rubbing and the sump-guard dragging itself along the road quite so often, the ride-height was raised an inch at the rear and half an inch at the front. Following this a full alignment done based on track/fast road settings. These changes highlighted another issue with the shocks: they’re too short. They need to be about an inch longer all round to give me the suppleness and travel I need. This, coupled with the stiff springs and my sub-10st weight means that the back end can still feel quite skittish over bumps, as effectively it will easily lift the inside rear on bumpy corners. There’s barely any sag. Not ideal, but still the difference now that all the wheels are pointing in the right direction is still night-and-day – it’s far more driveable and controllable as long as the road is pretty smooth. The A43 roundabouts were a lot of fun on the way home I was also met there by Barny who had a lovely box of goodies for me – a complete set of analogue which will eventually make up my new dash layout. Barny will be having my digidash for his new build, which I’m very much looking forward to seeing! I also spent Sunday at the Javelin/TSS Sprint day at Croft, playing pit-crew for a friend of mine in his Toyota MR2. Had lots of fun watching a certain Duratec-powered SEIW blitzing almost everything else there – think I could be tempted to join in with this next year as it’s a good mix of cars, people and talent. So, jobs for winter: New dash set-up (argh, electrics!) New longer and softer shocks and springs all round, plus another set-up at NMS Purchase tow-hook (and possibly new tow-car) Get noise-tested somewhere…

Alexander shifting the mighty cross flow? Wash your mouth out dirty boy!!!

Hellvelyn looks a bit different in winter

Welcome Dan sure AdamR will sort you some directions for a Lanc's meet. Steve

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