Ha! Pun intended?!

THINK BIGGER----2x202 ltrs,like most race cars

More on same;
http://www.streetfords.com.au/news/index.php?id=377

nice job there lad do u get any idle kick back when coming off throttle

Yes it gets a lot of kick back, but i am looking into the fix for that as we speak.

Another update.

The weekend passed i attended Bathurst for rounds 3 and 4 of the NSW Hillclimb championship.

There were some drama's with tyhe big girl in the lead up to the event, but a big Thank You to Joe and the Team at Crescent for the last minute repairs.

The Bathurst event was hosted by the Bathurst Light Car Club and had a huge turnout. At the end of Day one i finished 3rd in class and remained third in championship. For day one we competed in the esses. I found this very enjoyable and the car behaved predictably, due to the relatively low speeds achieved. The hardest part was finding a nice meduim between frying the tyres and stalling. But i managed a low 34 so was happy with that.

Day 2 was the run up mountain straight. This is a very intimidating section of road when taken at speed. I was in group one and we trundled down the hill to find about half of the track covered in FOG. Well for my sighting run i achieved a 64.98 and was relativley happy, but a front end lockup at about 130 coming up to turn 1 sortof took the wind out of my sails.

For the second run i used first 2nd and 3rd gear to turn one and stayed in 2nd for the rest of the climb. The old 351 was spinning away at about 6100rpm for the duration of the run, and i managed to improve to a mid 62. It was at this time a nasty habit became glaringly obvious, and that is a rear steer phenomonom, that is VERY pronunced at speed when lifting on and off the throttle. Due to the fact i needed to drive it home my next and last run was much slower with a high 65.

This still left me third in the class and no change to the championship for me. Over all i finished 50th out of a field of 72 and was very happy with the weekend as a whole.

Some pictures of racing and stories of the tales of the evenings events will follow when i get time to download the pics.

For those interested in the final results, and a look at some of the blindingly quick cars go to facebook and look for CAMS NSW Hillclimb Championship.

Cheers
Brett

Sounds like your having a great time out there Brett good on ya!

Are you still running the T5 in this beast, if so hows it holding up?

James

Yep, still running it and she is coping just fine. Its all about mechanical sympathy.

Brett

Good to know thanks, makes me feel a bit better about the one I've just put behind mine

Some pics.




More here; http://www.streetfords.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=2255&p=39214#p39214 and even more to come soon.

Looks good!!

looks good fun there brett

A couple of pics from Sunday



And more here, plus my Sunday report;
http://www.streetfords.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=2255&start=230

I found this posted on the NSW Hillclimb Facebook wall. The link should skip straight to Mando's first Esses run (at 2:39);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw1bzaOe ... age#t=159s
(the next run is at about 5:18, but the sound seems to be out of sync)

Cheers for that Sam, it's not often I get that point of view of the big girl.
Brett

lol lol ...... you've got the bug !!

nice pics