tomfromthenorth

Bolt what tyres suspension etc are you using, in the dry I get a bit of tramp at the rear in first and the slightest tractive scrabbling wheelspin in second, like 500rpm rev lead sort of thing. Thats 430 and 460tq at the fly on Kuhmo sporty saloon style rear tyres. It was more skitty when my suspension was too hard. I'm going NA soon and reckon it will be manageable.

Cheers paul, saw all the work you've done to yours, it must be wicked now.

Cleaned it thoroughly then got shouted at in the hangar "IS THAT A DIESEL IF ITS NOT GET IT OUT THE HANGAR!" lol The winchman then jumped in and I did a bit of a non standard departure! I then saw that Master Aircrew Bodiam had juat pulled into the car park, the SARF Winch Op training officer! Oops.

You do right :thumbup1:

Happy Birthday Si, I bet you're somewhere nice and hope you get that underbody neon kit you wanted :biggrin:

All the best mate :clover:

They come with free "DriftBitz" stickers though :lol:

I have been bitten by the bug :biggrin: I really want to rally prep an MX5! And as a side note, that is my 'patter' voice, it's like a super clear but slightly camp version of my normal one haha, it's reserved for keeping pilots and rally drivers calm and informed!

Watch our heads, we are like a pair of owls!

Thanks mate :-) I have a lot of cool footage but its a pita cutting it up without a proper programme, I spent so long trying to get a dodgy free copy that I got fed up :lol: The official photos are coming through one by one. It was so good, but bitter-sweet, it proved even more strongly that it is a rich mans game being a racing driver, there were a lot of medium speed doctors and MDs in £100'000 cars that Phil was demolishing. They would pull up to their massive caravans and throw the car at a team of engineers. I know I could be a driver but could only be at the level we are, that car cost Phil about 20 grand! I could 'possibly' do that some day.

That was the best thing I have ever done. It was pretty much what I expected, difficult but something I could do. The driver and I met for the first time just 12 hours before the event! I learned everything I needed to know in 2 hours over a Guinness with him then it was bed before an early start. Don't know quite how to put it into a post but being at a proper motorsport event is like the best track day ever, the knowledge that I was fulfilling a dream kept me grinning all day. We did all 7 stages without incident and sat 4th/5th out of 26 all day, Phil can really drive! I am lucky that I took a lot from my day job across into this which made it easier for me. The car is a Gp A 206 Sport (proper factory race car) 150 bhp, 1000kgs or so, proper close H-pattern box, remote oil resivour coilovers, Pzero racing slicks, Emerald ECU, 4 puck clutch, cage, rally bits and pieces. LSD!!! You don't have to be a pilot to fly in the RAF! This vid is rubbish quality but I have become fed up trying to crunch loads of 1080p together I'm gonna let Phil do it :lol: I fluff the notes a bit by getting ahead of the car by 2 corners due to a map that was a bit pants and I SWEAR that Escort was not there when I looked! Craig the team Mechanic, Me and Phil

Today is the day. Well tomorrow is the day, today is the day before. Just setting off for Ingleston for my first event. I'm moonlighting for another team as my driver isn't well but apparently he is rapid and has a rally 206, a good omen as my first car was a 206! I have all my gear together and i'm ready to read! Just had a litre black costa coffee before heading to RAF Leuchars for a free bed, then scrutineering later today before a pint going over the roadbook with the driver. Then tomorrow, "100 easy right maybe" :biggrin:

Hey man, this is a great forum hope you like it :thumbup1:

http://home.swipnet.se/e-solutions/IdleTech2.html Found it

Im trying to find the thread for setting your tps too while we're at it, I moved mine recently and reset it by ear :pinch:

Put me down as a I'll try to get it off and if I can I will

I got a really good price, Thank you MARK DERBY AT AUTOMODZ :biggrin::thumbup1::clap::thumbup: I was a bit worried about the XTD but I've read and re read everything I could find on here and most of the reviews are good. And as its not far of an F1 clutch they were popular too. I am sure I can handle the gabbiness just hope it doesn't make too many stupid noises

I drove it and had to stop hard in traffic, unimpressed, wide eyed and a bit annoyed I bought these minutes later, And for the back Not wanting to drive it in 3 weeks able to stop but not go I then bought For the small sum of :hurl: STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET TOM!

Re wired my bi-cas it was twisted and taped to check ot would work and ill be honest, it worked and I left it. Now it's much neater, solder heat shrink and spiral wrap.

Got some awesome photos today but no rescues unfortunately/fortunately. Had a long day training in the mountains, practicing landing in bowls on ridges and valley bottoms, without snapping aerials or rolling over. That and we just landed from a nice 1hr night decks trip, winching with a little fishing boat. If anyone is any good at photo cropping and colour contrast fiddling feel free to show me what to do with some of these nice ones.

Got another one :-) I don't tell these stories to show off, I just love yellow helicopters and it will be sad to see them go, I know the TV shows quite a bit of our work but it's normally hyped up and badly lost in narration. So these are from the horses mouth and when we're gone, a few more otherwise untold stories are out there to be remembered. So we got the call at 8 (er... I mean 20 hundred in the afternoon hours... zulu time :wacko:) 2 crag fast climbers near Balatter. We flew down and found the bowl they were in. The blue line is a trace of our flight, I didn't draw it on it's a GPS trace. Now the cloud was thick cold and went right to the top and it was sat like a lid in the bowl gently rising and falling leaving a 150 foot clear bit in the bottom with a 50 foot tall letterbox to get in and out over the lip of the bowl. So we were hooning around the bottom of the bowl (because you can't always hover a helicopter, especially not a shit old one at 4000 feet with half a tank of fuel) trying to spot them in the dark on NVGs and my thermal (FLIR) camera. On the third pass we see a flash of light in the cloud and then find the footprints of the stuck climbers heading in that direction. We realised we couldn't really get to them. Quick SAR lesson, If one engine stops (which they do) you need to get forward speed on fast. If you loose references in cloud you have to climb to 1000 foot above the hills you're in. If you go into cloud below 0 degrees you turn into a snowball and fall out the sky. If these guys were dying we would have hover taxied into the cloud clinging onto the rock face for references and try to do the rescue faster than the snowball effect hoping we don't loses sight of the hill in snow/cloud or have an engine fail whatever. They weren't hurt so we went off to get some Mountain Rescue. We did 3 shuttles in the end 4-4-5. Each shuttle saw the cloud dropping after initially jumping up a couple of hundred feet for team one. It was team one that was a sporty drop off, we managed to get one wheel on and hover jump the 4 MR and then throw their bags to them. I have never seen an expression like the MRT leader's when I told him to jump out! **** off it hinted. It was only like 6 foot! But they did it and to give them credit it was fairly sporty. Diagrams and everything :biggrin: As we did this the cloud sunk from about where we were to a good hundered feet beneath us and the departure was fairly A level, with the MR huddled in the triangle formed by the hill the helicopter and the rotor blades we broke contact with the ground and fell down and left paralelling the hill diving into the white keeping a reference on the hill side, we popped out the bottom of the cloud did some crazy Sqn Ldr Macfarlane (gifted pilot) 180 degree diving acellerating departure thing and went for more MR. The next 2 were very straight forward getting dropped off lower and lower with the cloud. Fuel light flashing we used a remote fuel site to top up at Braemar and went home. And! To top it all off we flew over Kim's house on the way home :-) We are availiable to go back if they need us but they won't. The clinbers weren't hurt and the MR are going to have an awesome time tying knots and eating Kendal mint cake. I hope you find this interesting, it is great to be back at work but I did throw a few bergens forgetting my broken finger :-( and if the bell goes now and it's an oil rig job :headvswall: Only joking a lot of you guys are off shore so I will sprint to the aircraft. Goodnight guys :biggrin:

Behind enemy lines :shifty:

That's lovely mate :thumbup1:

Z nut what did you do to yourself? I hope you're ok. I can't say Ive had this happen in a car but on motorbikes I've had these troubled concerns. When I got my zx10r me and it went through a period of storming, like 2 dogs working out who is boss. It would snap at me then I'd go really stupid fast and regret it worried about speeding satellites catching me! Paranoia... But you will settle into it. You need to 1) Establish a level playing field. Tyre pressures, alignment, weight and ballance, is there a brake stuck on. 2) Drive it alone, get some space and poke it with a stick, see when it has a go at you. Plan what to do if it does. 3) Drive it regularly You will settle into it, become confident. These cars aren't inherently unstable or dangerous. The speed thing, I do worry about the zx10 you can do 107 in 1st gear on that. But a zed you can enjoy at 3 points speed up to 80, 90. Not kawasaki go to jail speed. I have a strict set of self imposed rules for driving fast, they have kept me out of bother for 6 years (since I got caught speedjng and changed my mindset). I am sure you will be fine mate :thumbup1: I hope some of this helps and dont feel daft I spun mine and found I had a very soft tyre.

She drives an original ford Ka, not a bad sign, I know someone who did a 360 in one of those lol. She hasn't seen or heard about the zed yet, I didn't want to seem too flash having 2 cars, but for a Radiologist she is open minded to me having a motorbike! A purple mx5 is a good first date car :-) I hope you're right Gary, ill keep you posted, but I think we both have big smiles on our faces today. With that I am going for a run :biggrin: