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 hellbugged
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| posted on October 17th, 2011 at 05:13 AM |
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lap times Greg?
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| posted on October 17th, 2011 at 06:54 AM |
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Hi all,
Greg has whipped it out again and has been having a play with it 
This time he was doing it at Wakefield Park and has asked me to put these few photos up for him.
If you want to know any more about his car etc, you will have to ask the man himself.
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Thanks Kev.
By the way, there were others there....I wasn't just playing with myself!
Best lap was 1m16.6, and it needs more work on the engine to get back to pre-roll-cage times.
The rear end [swing-axle] is really gripping well, now I need to work on the outside front grip. Got a few ideas to try.
Brakes [356 drums] are working well.......and they didn't collapse!
Cheers, Greg
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| posted on October 17th, 2011 at 08:47 AM |
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Looking great Greg. Those 356 brakes must be noticably better than the old VW drums....
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| posted on December 22nd, 2011 at 09:38 AM |
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Hey Greg, look what photo Col just dug up. Circa 2003, thought you might be interested.
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| posted on December 22nd, 2011 at 10:19 AM |
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Thanks a lot Matt........just when I'd almost forgotten about those 'crap' brake drums. Pity I didn't see that in 2003.
Lucky they weren't doing about 80 MPH around a corner when that one let go.
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| posted on December 22nd, 2011 at 01:50 PM |
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Thanks a lot Matt........just when I'd almost forgotten about those 'crap' brake drums
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Best not to forget Greg. 
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| posted on December 25th, 2011 at 07:20 AM |
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lap times Greg?
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Sorry hellbugged, just reallised that I had not replied.
Best lap was 1m 16.64, however the 'trial' 40mm Webers slowed it quite a bit on the straight. The 48s are going back on!
Next time out should be interesting........I am presently converting the swing-axle rear suspension - NO, NOT IRS - to 'Zero roll'. No torsion bars,
just one coil-shock unit, as per F.Vee. Toe-in, toe-out change will be also [almost] zero.
Cheers, Greg
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hellbugged
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| posted on December 25th, 2011 at 07:32 AM |
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cool stuff.
always keen to hear how you're doing and what developments are going into it, being a fellow swing axler and all.
hopefully one day catch up and pick your brain a bit.......would love to get mine hooking up like those photos above
better get my butt down to Wakefield this year and see where it's at with it's current set up
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| posted on December 25th, 2011 at 06:53 PM |
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looks like its time to take the swing out of swingaxle
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| posted on December 25th, 2011 at 07:51 PM |
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Obviously we all need pics Greg, I like the sound of it.
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