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 Post subject: Sprinting at the Combe
PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:56 pm 
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Have just posted my first vid on Youtube.

Taken at my last track day at Castle Combe.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CHvWatmC8fs

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:55 pm 
Nice vid Mart, It looked to be going really well.
How is your camera mounted.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:04 pm 
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Just something I knocked up, I'll take a pic later.

Edit: Yer Tiz!

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Could have sworn I posted these pics at 8:00pm.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:41 pm 
That would probably explain the vibrations then. Will take a pic of the one I knocked up for my brothers car.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:45 am 
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Nice one mart. Hell the way you ate that last spit without dropping a cog, just your right foot was real nice.

Interesting to listen to the changes too. Is the change up that is noticeably a bit long into 4th or OD?

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:49 am 
Yeah , I noticed that too.


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Overtaking on these "proper" track days is by invitation, ie. the guy in front will put on his indicator, move over & then back off the throttle a bit to let the overtaking car make his manoeuvre cleanly. That's why I backed off as I was waiting for him to indicate.

On saying that, there is the odd TR, Spit & MG that just don't like to be overtaken by a scruffy looking Sprint and just won't back off so that you can't complete your manoeuvre in time for the next corner. :roll:

The gearing is a bit long on 3rd. Sprintparts sell a wide ratio gear set but at £650 tis a bit pricey for a non-competitive Sprint.

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Another vid. Much the same as the first. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZjZUwThJxs

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Your car does seem very "planted" on the track in those vids. Mart, the "wide ratio set is, I believe, the standard gearset out of a TR6/2000, many TR6 owners swap in the sprint box as the ratios are closer. Might be a cheap way round it?


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:19 pm 
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I thought it was the close ratio set the racer boys used :scratchin:


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