Oulton Park 24th March

@conor1n
Booked is if anyone else going

Mapping the day before at EFI

 

Okay, be good to meet up

 

Be good to meet up, im book in at 4pm

 

Ha ha ha i'm going what ever, need to give the car a shake down after the mapping, got my asymmetric 5's fitted now so if it's wet i'm good

 

If anything happens to the 265, i will be getting a mk2 again, a better track car (IMO ) There isn't much difference in the engines, it's a bit more time consuming getting the engine out of the mk3.

The reason i had so much problem with the 250 engine i think is because it was involved in a big accident, not sure what actually happened but i think it must have been bad

 

I think the chassis is a lot more forgiving than the mk3, lift off oversteer is a lot lot easier to catch and have fun with, you can provoke it with a lot of certainty you can get it back if it goes to far, the mk3 is almost an on off switch there is a very small window to catch it and once it goes it's gone.

With the mk2 you know exactly what is going on with the suspension, grip, brakes etc, it's not the quietest car on the road, i do like that about the mk3, i feel the mk3 is a little bit like Audi, BMW Merc etc, feels like there so removed from what is actually going on.

And there is a better choice of wheels for the mk2, i had 8.5j with a good offset, can't get close for the mk3.

 

I would, but iv'e sunk too much into the mk3 to change now

 

I'm up there for mapping so seems the thing to do while i am up that way

 

not saying

 

Someone i know is taking there newly modified GT86 there, he is picking it up from having a turbo kit fitted, so i need as many videos as you can going past him, don't worry hes a straight line merchant.

He drove my Megane at the ring and just drove down the middle of the track, then slowed and pulled over to let cars past, then into the middle again

 

Drivers pretty shit though, he'll talk the hind legs off of you if you ask about the car, he will also tell you that you have bought the wrong car

 

Im sure it would be as you say in the right hands

Well i hope it all goes well for you mate

 

Ha ha ha hat's when you know Adrenalin is brown , had the peddle not do anything even with loads of pressure, so i ditched the PBS pads.

Still not got mine running properly yet, been waiting for a new crank sensor to be delivered.
Hopefully it will let me take it out for a run

 

was that into the hill ????

 

did it come back with a cool down ???

 

i have had that, seals were so crisp they just crumbled, i didn't have the sticking piston as i only replaced them less than a year ago

 

And i will never speak to you again

 

He's an asshole about it, he thinks its the best car you can buy for track use, before he had ever done a single trackday in it.

Its having the turbo fitted at the moment, its costing £5.5k then if he wants to forge it that's another £7k+ and then its had a set of wheels and tyres, as the standard ones are 165's , coil overs and then the purchase price

Think i would just go and buy a Porsche 911