tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351393722009-03-02T01:56:06.019ZI'm a club racing driver, and this blog records the construction, racing, thrills and spills of running my Genesis EVO in the 750 MotorClub's RGB (Road Going Bike) ChampionshipAdrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986RacingEvo@technotrouble.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-69302668743596907632008-12-09T20:45:00.004Z2008-12-09T20:58:12.498Z

Those of you that follow my blog will know that I tend to be very "bursty" in terms of the frequency of updates.One of the reasons for this is that I'm short of time so anything that acts as a disincentive means that the updates don't get done.Well the Blogger interface has certainly been acting as a disincentive. It is particularly poor at uploading photos and videos in a timely fashion in the

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It seems class B is going to get busy next year.  Tim, Judy, Rob Grant, Dan Bromilow and  several others are all swapping to class B.   This means that life is going to get much more competitive and I don't really expect to finish as close to the front as I have done this year.This year has been fantastic... we'll see how next year goes  but Idon't expect to win any pots.. Tim is usually at least

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My Genesis seems to be fitted with a Mulching attachement as these shots from my off at the Birkett Show

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The Birkett is a 6 hour endurance relay race run on handicap lines at Silverstone by the 750 Motor Club.  entry is open to teams of between four and six cars and is open to any closed wheel race cars.  As a result we get really esoteric machinery to race against from Radicals and Mallocks, to Se7ens, D/C type Jags, 2CVS and MR2s.. It is such a hoot, and really servers as the end of season party.

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Mallory was the last round of the RGB season,  I went into the round just 3 points behind Neil Constable Berry for third place in the championship.  However short of winning the class, and beating everybody in the field I was unlikely to catch him.  So Mallory was simply a bit of end of season fun really.Qualifying was the most uneventful part of the day, I did however spin on the first lap as I

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Well after the crunch at Silverstone it was time to effect the necessary repairs.As you can see the front of the car was most distinctly second hand.  With a very bent radiator and cowl and a broken and torn front  bodywork section.Now the trick when repairing glass fibre is to have all the bits, then you tape them together at the front, and add new chopped strand mat on the back, with extra

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After a week away on holiday getting rained on in Shropshire, I returned home to get ready for the 750 Motor Club meeting at Silverstone on he 23rd.   As I was already on holiday from work and we were home in good time on the Friday I thought I'd have plenty of time to get ready.  Oh no... a long and diverting game of "B*gg*er I've lost the Keys to the Winnebago" soon meant that as usual Duncan

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This is never going to end well is it?More details tomorrow.Surprisingly after this impact I finished 4th in class and 17th on the road.

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I've never been in a position before where the top of the results table is of any relevance to me. But this year I'm taking a keen interest in the RGB championship.The full current championship table is here :---> RGB POINTS.But I've uploaded a snippet, and as you can I'm riding high at 10th on the table.Now lets not kid ourselves here! Being 10th in the table does not mean that I'm the 10th

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I guess its is a measure of how far I've progressed this season that I can go home with a 2nd place in class B, (which I'm delighted about)... but still be dissapointed with my performance and feel that I wasn't "On it" at Donnington.Anyway the full race report follows.Prior to Donnington I loaded yet another iteration of the modified fuel map to continue the development on this part of the car.

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One of the things I log on my data logger is air\fuel Ratio.  I use an Innovate Motorsports LC-1 wideband lambda sensor and log it to my DL-1 logger at a rate of 100hz.  The Lambda sensor outputs a range of 0-5v based on an air/fuel ratio of 10 -20 AFR.   Therefore in my Dl1 I can derive  the actual AFR ratio using the equation AFR=(v*2)+10.The sensor measures the unburnt oxygen in the exhaust

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As the championship is now getting pretty tight I thought I'd go testing at Cadwell Park before the next RGB double header In Friday testing  I went 3.5 second faster than my previous 1:46.8 Personal Best,  this is some step up from my last visit here in May.  I can't really say I worked up to this as  I did it in in just one session as I parked the car  firmly in the barriers at the hairpin

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I arrived on Saturday Evening, a bit later than hoped due to being diverted through Yaxley as a new footbridge was being hoisted across my route to the A1. On route also discovered, that the Winnebago is only about 3 inches narrower that the Dartford tolls... which makes life interesting.Anyway, after the storming performance at Anglesey I was actually a little concerned about Brands. I've

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It seems that blogger now supports video, so here's a "moment" at Anglesey. The entry on the start/finish straight was problematical all weekend and here is a little clip of when I got it quite a bit wrong.  I distinctly remember thinking "Don't Lift" as I was facing the pit wall as a big weight transfer in this slide would have had me spinning along the wall wiping both ends off the car.One

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Thursday/Friday TestingDuncan and I arrived at around 2am after a pretty long drive across the centre of the country. we simply crashed out until the  following day.  Arriving at night meant we missed all the scenery and the circuit is located in an area of outstanding beauty  I guess we saw it at its best over the weekend. And I'm so pleased that the club got great weather for it's inaugural

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 Well its been two years since I was last at Cadwell but today I achieved a first.... I bought a car home from  Cadwell in one piece :-) breaking my succession of coolant failure, fire and blown engine experiences at this great little circuitThe day was baking hot  >25 deg c, so going out early for practice at 9:50 was a bonus.  I got through scrutineering fine, although this particular scrute

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Following the drive shaft failure at Brands one of the main jobs to do was get some new drive shafts made up... as plainly my Cut N Shut Welded ones weren't up to the job. These I got made up by Jonathan Weston Taylor a fellow 750 MC racer who also runs an engineering business.I sent JWT a sample of the splines and the length required and he turned the new shafts around in about a week.  They

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Simply the best day at a Circuit since the Birkett 06.  And finally some payback for all the garage hours and development work.Friday testing was cold  but the track was dry... It was immediately evident that resolving the fuel issues has made a huge difference, as  have the suspension settings courtesy of Dave T and all the mods over the winter. The car now has pin you back in your seat

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After missing out on racing at Snett, I thought I'd attack the performance problems, and first on the list was getting the thing re mapped on a rolling road.  When I'd fitted the CBR engine fourteen months or so ago I just down loaded from the Internet a high performance fuel map for my Power Commander USB3.   I wondered if the problems with performance were due to this being slightly out.  In

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After the carnage of the chain jumping in testing I didn't have much time to get the car ready for the first race of the season.... so some midnight oil was burned.The other thing Dave Turner does is teach production engineering evening classes and I've been attending "Big Oily Toys Classes" for a while.  so when I examined the diff after the failure at Snett it was obvious that the problem is

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So with the car together, well in advance of the season for once it looked like I was going to make the first race of the season.  I even had time for some pre season testing at Snetterton In Late FebruaryI took along Dave Turner who is a pretty damn good chassis dynamicist (his blog is at http://dynamicist.blogspot.com/)  to help me setup the car.Dave was determined to help me sort out my

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After some gentle reminding, and indeed some firm poking with a sharp stick from various readers of this blog I thought I'd do an update and answer the question "What has been going on?".  Indeed even Tim has been poked on his Blog to get me to update mine ... perhaps some people do pay attention after all :-)So here's a fairly hefty update that will cover (at least in some degree) what has been

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While I've got the Diff unit out of the old cradle, and I'm while working on its mountings I thought I weigh it and see how much the thing weighs. So I dragged the bathroom scales down to the garage (Mrs M had already had a gentle chat about using the kitchen ones :-) ) and shoved the Diff and and reverse starter motor onto them. Total Weight a smidgen under 13Kg. Relative to both the old

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Well after four months of shaking off the disappointment of a season and development cycle wasted , I've decide that I do want to race again, and this year I'm going to be ready for the start of the season. So after finally deciding to abandon the other diff it is time to revert to my old one. I'll lose the swanky engine driven reverse, but there's no point in having a swanky reverse if you

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After the Brands meeting I took the racer to the following meeting a Mallory park in early June. Here again I suffered major overheating problems. Mallory is a lovely short circuit, I qualified last, and in the race I managed to keep with the slower members of class C for a couple of laps but eventually I had to start short shifting again to control the engine temp and lost touch with them. So

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