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[cptkirk]

Well I went to RAF Marham Charity Track Day on Saturday and had a good time, right up until the point that my boot lid came undone, it doesn't sound much but the strap that holds the boot open in normal circumstances snapped and then the lid dropped to the ground, in doing this it bent some bodywork and cracked my diffuser, whilst it was dragging down the road it ruined the boot handle, got stone chipped to death and the exhaust melted the paint. It will be fixed in a few weeks, just an expense I could have done without.

Anyhooo, footage was taken and its up on YouTube:

[Birdman]

Good to see it on the track and you having fun. Sorry about the boot, at least ir wasn't the bonnet!

[brum,brum,mike]

looks like you had good fun - Shame about the boot and the damage it caused though

[cptkirk]

Good to see it on the track and you having fun. Sorry about the boot, at least ir wasn't the bonnet!

Track = Boot = :-(

looks like you had good fun - Shame about the boot and the damage it caused though

Cheers Mike



Link to a video that shows all the participants of the Saturday morning session, a real varied bunch of cars:

[minithekid]

looks like you give the M5 a kicking! he! he! great.  

[cptkirk]

looks like you give the M5 a kicking! he! he! great.  

 

Thats was no ordinary M5 either, I took the owner for a few laps in mine and he was telling me that his was running 570hp, he ran out of runway at 172mph......

[minithekid]

 

looks like you give the M5 a kicking! he! he! great.  

 

Thats was no ordinary M5 either, I took the owner for a few laps in mine and he was telling me that his was running 570hp, he ran out of runway at 172mph......

 

            was he very impressed with the mini?....

[cptkirk]

 

 

looks like you give the M5 a kicking! he! he! great.  

 

Thats was no ordinary M5 either, I took the owner for a few laps in mine and he was telling me that his was running 570hp, he ran out of runway at 172mph......

 

            was he very impressed with the mini?....

 

 

Yes he was, especially the way that you can just gun the car and it sticks and goes, no tail swinging opposite locking.........

[cptkirk]

In an attempt to get my noise levels down to get onto 98db track days I have added a removable extra silencer to my system now and I still have the ability to add my little bike silencer to mix as well should I require it. Also for the mini purists the exhaust comes out the correct side now (I personally like the centre exit look but its not an option with the diffuser).

 

So Last night Stevie G and myself set about making the new parts of the system and finally finished at 01:00 this morning which was good as there wasn't anything on the road when we went for the road test at unmentionable speeds.

 

So I removed all the wadding from the original silencer which was not in good shape as the outer skin of the silencer was colouring up with heat patches where the wadding had blown out of the exhaust. I have replaced the old wire wool/fibreglass wadding with Acoustafil High Temp wadding from PTR Exhausts. Its got a good rep and is a piece of p!ss to fit as it expands with heat so was jsut a case of taking out the old, wrapping the new around the perforated pipe and slotting it all back together. Anyone thinking of doing this will require 2 linear meters to fill a 6" silencer, width is dependent on size of silencer (I used 500mm wide for an 18" wide box).

 

Anyhooo, here are a few pictures of the work:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Birdman]

For one track I go to I am to loud.  So when going there I put a "Supertrap" on the end of my pipe.

[cptkirk]

For one track I go to I am to loud.  So when going there I put a "Supertrap" on the end of my pipe.

 

Personally I am not a fan of the Supertrap as they choke the system a bit too much for my liking especially in forced induction engines, I am not doubting their ability to reduce the decibels though as I know they do work. After seeing my manifold glowing bright red through the ceramic coating I figured that an absorption setup is the only way to silence the car, any form of restriction will just cause unwanted heat build up.

 

Hopefully with all this work should see the end of my black flag woes. As I said before if this still isnt enough I have the bike silencer that I know reduces the noise by approx 4db on a static (Stevie G if your reading this might need another stay making for the little silencer.....)

 

On a positive note I have to say that the whine of the charger never sounded so loud or so sweet......

[e11evns]

hi mate hows it going exhaust looks sexy does it work ok ? you going to coombe this year? trying to get mine put back together for it 

[cptkirk]

hi mate hows it going exhaust looks sexy does it work ok ? you going to coombe this year? trying to get mine put back together for it 

 

Hey Claudio, thanks...

 

I am still unsure as to its effectiveness but have a track day booked at Goodwood on the 12th Aug so will find out for sure there as they are super strict on noise levels.

 

Unsure about Combe this year as wont be in Miniworld stand again. Will tackle that one nearer the time.

[fiestaharry]

where your steering coloum bolts on, the tubular frame, is that a part of the zcars package or is it custom made?

[2000lukey]

Optional extra, with the sva / iva column from zcars, uses x2 ford uj's also.