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NSW Hillclimb Champs Round 3-4 Bathurst. , now engine diagnosis.
colin - April 28th, 2012 at 03:53 PM

The weekend of the 5th and 6th will see Glen and myself racing at the very special place we call Bathurst.
Saturday the 5th will be the 3rd round being the Esses and Sunday the 6th will be the 4th round Mountain Straight.
After a good check over and clean all appeared well after Cooperabung Hillclimb, i changed the engine oil and checked tappet clearances.
After Larry kindly highlighted my poor execution of sticker application i couldn,t sleep until i replaced the crooked sticker.:lol::lol::lol:

Cheers Col

gordysbeetle - April 28th, 2012 at 06:35 PM

see ya up there

bat69 - May 5th, 2012 at 09:31 PM

Spoke to the boys tonight. Colin managed to win the class, some 1.5 seconds ahead of the next competitor. Ironically 2nd was the same Dato which beat Col at Kempsey. The temp was -3 this morning and the track was freeeeeeezzzzzin cold all day and little slippy they tell me. Glen was 4th in class and gettin use to some more HP under the hood. Tommorrow sees them head over to the other side of the Mt and do Mt Straight. Australia's fastest hillclimb. Good luck boys.

Craig Torrens - May 7th, 2012 at 12:55 PM

http://bathurstlightcarclub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/NSW-Hillclimb-Results-E...

A lot of new records were set, so the weather and track must of been good for the weekend.

Congrats Col on your win on Saturday.:cool:

vassy66T1 - May 7th, 2012 at 03:01 PM

Great result Col!
Put up some video when you are ready :)

colin - May 7th, 2012 at 08:25 PM

Will post a race report with pics and vids in the coming days when time permits, car was very doughy.
Need to do a quick check of easy probs but intial thoughts are i have a flat cam.:(

Cheers Col

colin - May 9th, 2012 at 08:26 PM

After a very very cold night camping on the Mountain the sun shined brightly on saturday for Round 3 of the NSW Hillclimb Championship held on the Esses track.
The cold overnight temps and cool but fine day meant the track was at best warm.
Improved Production 1601-2000cc class was again a hard fought class with 2 datto,s and Glen and myself racing hard all day.
My car felt sluggish and off the pace all day and i drove the wheels of it to post a time .3 seconds slower than last year. Fortunately it was good enough for a class win, allthough i knew something was not right with the motor.
Glen relished the extra hp in his rebuilt Stan pobjoy rocket and improved all day to post a pb time, good one mate.

Final times were,

1st in class Col 30.39
2nd Adrian 31.34
3rd Aaron 31.48
4th Glen 33.01

Sunday saw us move to the daunting Mountain Straight track for round 4.
This is a very fast track and again my little black beetle was feeling sick, i tried real hard to keep up with the Datto boys but by now i reckon the cam was a broom stick.

Final times were,

Aaron 1st in class 54.24
Adrian 2nd 56.18
Col 3rd 57.12
Glen 4th 58.67 another pb.

I now will do a check of my valve lift this weekend but i,m 99% sure my new cam is flat. If this is correct i will pull the engine over the next couple of months and Larry and i will talk about next years plans for it.
It will be hard not competing for the rest of the year but thats racing.
I will post up pics and vids soon.

Cheers Col

JVLRacing - May 9th, 2012 at 08:35 PM

nice stuff guys....:cool:...Glenn with a pb real impressive:cool:

colin - May 9th, 2012 at 08:41 PM

Our campsite

Col

vassy66T1 - May 9th, 2012 at 09:03 PM

Thanks for the report Col.
Sad to hear if you have had the setback you expect to find.

colin - May 9th, 2012 at 09:41 PM

http://youtu.be/JKRh4dsNMMY 

My second run of the Esses track.

Cheers Col

Jak Rizzo - May 10th, 2012 at 07:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by colin
Our campsite

Col


Don't they have porta loo's in bathurst?

bigrudi - May 10th, 2012 at 07:50 AM

Good work guys come on Col just pull it out split the case bung in a new cam and ur going again cheers Rudi

matberry - May 10th, 2012 at 08:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bigrudi
Good work guys come on Col just pull it out split the case bung in a new cam and ur going again cheers Rudi
x2

Thanks for the report Col, and well done to all the Volksie dudes.

Jak Rizzo - May 10th, 2012 at 12:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bigrudi
Good work guys come on Col just pull it out split the case bung in a new cam and ur going again cheers Rudi


yeh Col,

Rudi does this whilst eating breakfast......

bigrudi - May 10th, 2012 at 05:24 PM

Gday Col give me a call your pms arent working have an angry 1998 sitting in the garage that needs the cobwebs blown out of itcheers Rudi 0418442953

colin - May 10th, 2012 at 06:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-Ix6uUaLc&feature=plcp 

Glen racing on Sunday


Cheers Col

colin - May 10th, 2012 at 07:43 PM

http://youtu.be/dR_0ZDjs9Cs 

Sunday racing on the Mountain Straight track.

Cheers Col

colin - May 10th, 2012 at 08:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bigrudi
Gday Col give me a call your pms arent working have an angry 1998 sitting in the garage that needs the cobwebs blown out of itcheers Rudi 0418442953


Thanks for the very generous offer Rudi but i must decline.
I would never forgive myself if i hurt your motor. Checked easy things the other night like full throttle and dizzy being loose but unfortunatly all is good.
I,d love to just throw another cam in but Larry and i talked and we decided to use the extra time to shout the motor some new pistons and barrels.
If the championship was on the line i,d carry the thing up a hill on my back, but it,s not.
Hopefully i can gather up enough cash to get the parts so i can run an event or two later in the year, family and mortgage payments take priority over toys.:lol:
Glen has kindly offered to double enter with me in his car for the Tamworth round on the 8th of July. I,ll probably take up his offer but i must remember it would be rude to go faster than him.:lol::lol::lol:

Cheers Col

Craig Torrens - May 10th, 2012 at 08:58 PM

Have you run that combination at Bathurst before ?

It sounds good in the vids, so its hard to believe the cam is going flat.

bigrudi - May 11th, 2012 at 07:46 PM

Col you wont hurt the little sucker this thing was running 320 atw in turbo mode.as they say if it dies it dies no dramas, offer still there cheers Rudi

matberry - May 11th, 2012 at 07:53 PM

Sounds like the Volksie commaradery is alive and well. Nice :tu:

colin - May 11th, 2012 at 07:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Craig Torrens
Have you run that combination at Bathurst before ?

It sounds good in the vids, so its hard to believe the cam is going flat.


It,s a new cam for this year, Bathurst was only the second event with it. If it,s not the cam then something else is not right, and if the cam is good then it,s coming out and the old faithfull will see another hillclimb or two.

Cheers Col

colin - May 12th, 2012 at 04:50 PM

Popped the rocker covers off and dropped the oil this arvo and guess what?
Grey sludge on the sump plate, bummer.
Will pull the engine out tomorrow and the plan is to come down in 2 weeks to drop engine to Larry and then go to Goulburn and watch some VW hooning.
Looks like the old faithfull cam will go back in with some new pistons and barrels:cool:

Cheers Col

fullnoise - May 12th, 2012 at 07:33 PM

Bummer Col. You can have my engine after the nationals. Put your heads and carbs on it. I'll have other priorities :-) CT