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    MSDT Race Developments updates

    in MSDT 01/09/2021

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Dtracer said:

    Thanks, really excited for it but so much prep work to do.

     

    On a side; I may have to pick your brain. My boy will be starting out in Karts this coming season and need to get geared up for it. It's erm... a lot of years since I was karting and the scene has changed so massively I hardly recognize it. 

    Happy to talk Karting.

    I have been in it 14 months now and its all consuming. The cadet scene is very messy imo, lots of series etc

    Let me know when you want a natter

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    MSDT Race Developments updates

    in MSDT 01/09/2021

    Posted

    Good Luck.

    Motorsport is a lottery at the best of times, and I can only imagine how hard it is to prep all those cars for such an enduro.

    Hell, a 30 min race is taxing enough, but 6 hours split between 4 cars is going to be fun.

     

    alpha Live are ace, will try to follow. They cover all the races we do at Whilton. 

     

    Cannot wait to see you guys out on track.Proper Job 

     

    Best of luck to you all

     

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  3. Summer Tyre vs All Season Trye, What Works For You?

    in General Celica Discussion

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    I have a very different experience with my winter tyres. I run a set on my BMW. In fact will be putting them on in a couple of weeks.

     

    Last year the car was so capable in snow and cold / damp icy conditions, it was superb. In fact they had more inital grip than the summer run flats I run as OEM on the car.

     

    I 100% rate new winter tyres, on the wifes Octavia, we were able to travel safely in pretty heavy snow.

     

    I hate the run flats I have on the BMW, they are so hard and the transfer from grip to slide when having fun is awful, very snappy out on tack, even with my LSD

  22. Gen 6 appreciation

    in General Celica Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah I have been stopped too. Its a great feeling. I think that there is a growing trend now to 90s Classics which is great.

    The guy explained how he had one from new as a company car and did over 120K in 4 years in his, before a sad demise vs a truck :-( he said it was one of the best cars he ever had.

    Totally love mine, this third time round is a full keeper for me.

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  24. I am back!

    in General Celica Discussion

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    Well its been a while, but I thought I would say hello.

    I still have my black ST202GT, but I purchased at the weekend Skirmish's Gen 7 Celica, so I thought I best renew and say hello.

    The GT will be sold on, and the main daily will be the Gen 7, with a view to particpating a few track days and maybe the odd TSS event.

    The great work that Chris has carried out in building up the car will I hope be carried on, and I intend to stay with NA power, as while I love boost, a Screaming NA engine in a sorted chassis is tough to beat in my book.

    I was not looking at buying a Gen 7 tbh, I was looking at Type R Civics, but Chris put his car up at the right time.

    anyways, good to be back. How are you lot?

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  25. Poly Bushes...a mechanics viewpoint!

    in General Celica Discussion

    Posted · Edited by alwayzsidewayz

    Chris, I know about that car, and the change in the settings, Two of my best mates who went to the RR session with him where at my house today. lets just say you only have half the info :-)

    I would disagree re my ECU, The technology for the first gen GTE was out dated by the time the 205 came along, for example no AFM on the later car. The stock ECU just over fuels to hell, safe to a point, but also increasing wear in the engine though bore wash . Toyota themselves had to retro modify the cooling system expansion tank after launch, so they do not always get it 100% right even with their millions. What about the stock manifold?, it has an design flaw that leads to cracking, unless you re weld, a better option is replacing it with a different one.

    The mapping can be as safe or as good as the mapper, just as a stock part fitted to a stock car can be compromised by poor fitting by a mechanic. New technology enables one to achieve more, but if it is fitted by an idiot the results will still be bad.

    Any modification done badly and without research can damage a car, that's a given. but people should not be put off by that, as sure as eggs is eggs if you neglect a stock car you can kill it just as quick.

    plus in some cases, Toyota will no longer make or stock the correct OEM parts for older cars, therefore forcing you at times to consider taking other action.

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