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What a good day!!!

The mini unfortunatly was suffering from a slipping clutch, too many slick shod starts at silverstone's 0-60 run!!!

Since Castle Combe my maintainance programme involved checking the oil and washing the car on the morning of oulton park!!..hey thats me all over!!!

Due to the clutch full boost/power was'nt an option so was running a minimum 8/9 psi instead of all out 20 or so. as the engine is set up to run high boost the motor seriously over fueled only letting me rev to 5600 RPM in top, so effectively i was giving away 15 ish MPH at top end speed.

Mark and myself played with fuel pressure but to no avail, still no top end. Towards the end of the day i remembered i had standard metty turbo needle in my spares box, we fitted it and DANNERRRR!!! 7000rpm in top and no detonation!

This added to the fun and that blue Porche Carrara3 did'nt bet by so easy down the start finish straight, in fact i pulled over for him on the start finish and we went into turn 1 side by side...SCARY!

It was a great day, free rolling road!!!,tea,coffee,instruction etc.

Engine out,check over,new clutch,gaskets and seal,dyno and track day it at full boost this time.

Thanks to Mark for your help and "prelude"dave for letting us know about the day.

Awesome. we were stunned by the video, great driving, and very quick!

prob be a bit more vid to follow

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

my views on the day , firstly i have no idea how people go along to track days without a car , first time i`ve ever been without my car but i got 7 or 8 laps in jons so it was worth it .
Oulton park is a track you have to try i would rate in alongside cadwell for sheer fun, and i can see why so many race car`s get bent as i if you come off in some places it straight into the armco.The track isn`t too hard to learn once you remember which crests you go flat out over, and riding the curbs is not always the best idea as a couple of them try to pull you into the grass.
As for jon`s car he has mentioned above the problems which were livable with and still meant you could have fun.
The other great thing was going out after jon had been "fighting " with a few things ...
i caught an audi TT up and he let me past rather too easily ... only too find out later jon had already done him , so he must have thought it was a waste of time trying to keep in front ,an old shape M3 , left hooker, took a bit more getting past but a bit of late braking into the second chicane saw him off at the next bend and once past , even with a very slippy clutch and only 8/9 psi jon`s car pulled away cleanly from him.
I will be back to oulton next year but i`ll have my car there !!!!

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

Sounds like a brilliant day...

I hoped to be there but couldnt get the time off work!

alex

AlexF

i cant wait to get my first taste of track days. when is there one end of jan/feb time that anyone is thinking of going to? could do with a competent passengar to give me some hints and tips

donnington in april, iain. :) i might take my golf.

Donnington is a TOP circuit.

Get there!

Craner curves...oh! suits you!

What LSD have you got Jon? You seem to have zero wheelspin and there's no tugging at the wheel.

Cool vid btw.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Sounds like a good plan to me. I love donnington anyway plus its not too bad for me to get to at all. Be cool to get a few of us there

I wanna do donnington next... the circuit looks so much fun!


alex

AlexF

well there's a date to aim for. ill defo go. im ready and waiting now!

April is tooo long to wait!

My next trackday is Feb next year LOL

alex

AlexF

Hello giallofly.

Thomasp <--- is the bloke in the red mini cooper @ Oulton.

w00t 2 Posts now

hi tom think next bit of vid has your mini on it

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

Theres another Mallory Park Track day going on in mid- february, organised by TSR.
They organised the day I did there last month, well organised, plenty of track time and also Mallory is a nice easy circuit, especially if it is your first track outing. Last one was ?94 which I thought was good value.
Also it is near Leicester so nice and central.

Glad you both enjoyed the day, Almost wish I'd taken my blue beastie too.

There will be lots more coming up next year and I'll keep everyone posted as I get the dates.

Oulton Park does suit minis quite well, as does Anglesey. The main thing that I like with the trackday companies that I use is the open pitlane. You really do get much more track time than you need.

I'm sure we can have a gaggle of minis out next year.

Dave.

lets hope so dave.

Was that your car on mikes rollers last week? Didnt have time to stop and see it run.

it was mini toms.

Dave

how did it get on?

it went on very well, mainly due to the fact that he's decided to just use it on tracks, so I don't have to worry about it passing an MOT. Mikes rollers are reading strange at the moment but using percentage of increse compared to its previous results it's doing around 85bhp @ wheels and flying along quite nicely.

Dave.

Havent they got that pot sorted on the rollers then? been dodgy for a while.

end of the day the figures dont really matter but its good to have.