Is that a fellow standard towing eye i spot?

well done mate, glad all went well :)

Car looked to go well today mate. You had a few flames through hall bends on a couple of occasions too. :cool:

Think the only shedders I spoke to were Dan and Ash - didn't manage to bump into you.

enjoy it at cadwell yesterday then jp? I'd like to do cadwell but iv heard from loads it's just a really fast track and with me still being a beginner I'm unsure man

Hope you had a good day out JP, cars looks right at home ;)

Have a chat with Stew (sexy_gt), he practically lives at Cadwell!

Couple more pics from Megan

Awesome day yesterday, really smashing round on the last session!

Think the engine is perfect for road based track car, not too intrusive on the road and nice bark on track.

car looks so good on track man!

and I agree with Olly on that last comment

Hell yeah, no need for these other fancy ones tbh!

Thanks buddy, went well, i was so proud of the little mango!

You werent standing with us by halls bend when it was raining were you? i was wearing a blue hoodie and a grey bench coat...

Its always popped and banged since the proper BTB exhaust went on, its awesome haha

You should definitely do it mate, as per text id recommend you do a track with plenty of run off first until youve had a decent few track days then do cadwell, as theres minimal run off in certain parts of the track!

Yeah i watched a few videos of his, he should try some other tracks, theres more than 1 decent track in the UK lol

Glad you enjoyed it Olly! Not bad for £5 and a mcdonalds haha :D

I was happy with the progress over the day, like you say really had the whole track hooked up by the afternoon. Funniest comment of the day after the mammoth first 50mins session was "that was the quickest installation laps ive ever been on" haha!

Engine should sound even better once i rip the sound deadening out from behind the dash :D

I agree with the engine comments, my need for more power is killing me now though, so may have to go crazy on it this time next year :y:

jp get on the power hike bandwagon man... you imagine how quick our little rockets will be with an extra 40-50-150hp ;)

You definitely should danny, your car with that new engine will rip everything up around there mate!

They are kevlar cobra suzukas mate, really nice seats tbh, im really pleased with them, no problems even when driving all the way to the ring :y:

Even with my engine i was keeping or pulling away from near enough everything there on the day, even the caterhams werent quicker than me down the straights which was suprising. Matts 200bhp 205 was near enough the quickest on the day, even kept up with the ultra lol

I was on the power so early though with my suspension/gearbox set up. Was really pleased with the whole car chassis wise, brakes are great now with the larger servo and MC as well :D

glad the servo feels better, kinda new it would sort it out, and its another job done aint it.

now you have done cadwell, take another look at tams vid with the s/c ax.. imagine if you had that sort of power lol... how MUCH quicker that youd be.

hehehehehehe (evil laugh) i just watched it, fuck me!

now you have some enthusiasm get ordering those boost bits lol

IF (big if) i get back out to oz and start earning good cash again im pretty sure im going to stay NA, bite the bullet and go for 200+bhp with a full sandy build, should keep me up with near enough everything on nearly all the UK tracks :D

you dont need to be spending crazy dosh to get decent grunt out of it.

Youve got the pistons, just go for a wilder cam and remap init.

200BHP NA is good but wont keep up with alot if you go on some of the days I have people organising. They have GT3 RS's and CGTs and know how to use them, which is why im not booking up sillystone with them haha

sounds good mate, hope it gets done :)

if and when it happens we'll have to get some trackdays booked up together and show people what these tin cans are made of :D

Haha, missed the sighting laps, never been round before and not trying to hold anyone up, lol.

Engine plans are sweet.

Silverstone is definitely a high power circuit, but tbh if i can get 200+bhp, that will give me 250bhp per ton, theres not that many cars knocking around with that sort of power on your normal run of the mill track day. So should be more than enough for my capabilities as a driver.

Danny - sounds like a plan mate!

Olly - haha, was a cracking day. Cant wait for Donnington!

BHP per tonne doesnt really matter too much when you are not doing low speed corners. A 3 tonne car with 600bhp will probably have sooo much more torque to just piss on us with ease on every circuit where the corners flow at high speed.

Cadwells tight though, perfect for hatches.

Not necessarily as its all relevent to weight again, if my car has 150lb ft of torque for example, but only weights 825kgs, that means something that weights 2 ton will need over 350lb ft of torque to have the equivalent torque, if that makes sense. Plus especially around tight circuits our little hatches can get on the power so much earlier in the corner it wont matter anyway.

Tbh theres only 3 or 4 high speed circuits in the UK, where as tight circuits your looking at 20-30 easily

josh have you weighed your car lately then?

No Tom, but with sound deadening removed behind the dash, carbon boot and bonnet on id imagine 825 should be easily achiveable

yeah i would have thought so too mate in all honesty so ave you got the boot and bonet on then now?

No bonnet im trying to sort something as no one makes them now. Boot i have but its not road legal, needs some lighting for the number plate so i will be modifying that after easter prob and get that fitted.

Dash will be coming out at easter for spraying the interior if the weathers good :)

New camera to capture footage on my next track day...

i have one of those, instructions were all but in english :S

good quality for the price though

Charge = USB
Start video = button 1
Stop button = button 2

Not that hard chris :P lol

Awesome quality though from the videos @ cadwell. Ill try it out at Donnington on the 23rd May :D

then you have to hold one of them to switch between video and pictures etc etc

i blu tacced mine on the dash, above the dials stayed there too, even the wing mirror when i went for a short blip at 60/70 :p

Yeah I've been told that's the best way. Will see what happens :)

Strippage from today....

Started like this





Half way through







Finished like this for today



And popped my new tax disk holder on as well

Please tell me the carpet is being re-fitted...............

It is being refitted James. Only came out to remove sound deadening, tar and paint the interior. Then going back in, just going to cut the flap off at the back so it looks tidier :)

get some apc through a foaming lance and jet wash that mo fo carpet josh!!!!

Love it mate. Im trying to catch you up with my mango build.Haha will take me time :) Hopefully have two mango s's on track :)

Very good news.....im happy again now.

Not round lauras anytime soon so I can borrow yours are you? Chances are carpet won't be going back in for another week or so!

Haha good luck with that mate, 2 mangos would be epic :D

Lol James, I thought you would know me better than that to think I might take the carpet out!

Love the progress. Always been an inspiration!

Cheers dude, I'm getting there...