8000 rpm/300 bhp 3.2 rebuild

[KS]

Watched the live feed on YouTube. Well done Graham! Excellent job!

[MikeB]

First timed run over




Live Stream on YouTube, if anyone is interested


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[jb]

Do you have a link to the livestream as I can only find yesterday’s

[Gary71]

Looks brilliant Graham.
Hope you enjoyed the weekend:)

[impmad2000]

Looks and sounds great in real life too. Great to see and we’ll worth a trip out in the Targa.
Great set of Porsches here, including Paul Howell’s fabulous RSR. I also went to see the green imp in the background. a friend’s turbo car ( imp power) and proper rapid.

[911hillclimber]

Ha!
But not fast enough!

[andytat]

Don't leave us hanging Graham!

[911hillclimber]

Full report tomorrow, knackered right now.

[911hillclimber]

Quite a weekend of things going on. firstly, a full-on hillclimb at Prescott, busy as they come and perfect conditions.

To the car first.
It started fine, bit better than usual on a cold morning on Saturday and sounded solid.
First practice run and the first time I'd pressed the throttle pedal and the pick up is very noticable, as is the time to warm up, much quicker than before, so things still tight inside.
Got to the starting area ok and did the customary tyre warm-up and really noticed the difference, lots more 'go' and a real lack of traction1
The slicks are now entering their 5th year, really need so fresh tyres.

The blast off the line was superb, and what a noise from behind my (warm) head, you really feel the longer run in the gears, at least 1st, and then second, and didn't change gear again through the whole course! Not may fastest run, but more getting used to it.
Got back to the paddock to no 3/4th gears and no reverse. Not good, but down to a silly mistake I made on Thursday to the gear linkage, quickly fixed with a spanner. now have all 4 gears and far more precise shift action, a good change using the WEVO gate shift.

Second practice run was much the same, but the tyre warming was far more 'dramatic' and scattered the start line marshals...
Got a bollocking from the CofC when i got back, first telling-off at a hillclimb ever.

To Sunday and things get serious.
Practice and use 3rd now and the times tumbled to a second of my PB, the engine is fabulous. Get to 4K and the whole thing simply 'swells' with guts breaking traction in second. I don't remember changing to 3rd and back to 2nd, too focused on brakes that seem inadequate.
All over in a blurr, but the car is so different in a really positive way, but have to learn it a bit. Hit the rev limiter in places as i stretched the runs in 1st and 2nd, the base purpose of this exercise.

Second timed run was a bit slower and I lost 2nd in class to the mighty TVR by 2 hundreths of a second. Real hillclimbing stuff.

Shoulder and hand injuries were 'ok' and I survived, and the car too.

Fabulous.

Lots of questions about the engine over the weekend, surprising just how many read my drivvel.
Shelsley in 2 weeks.

The TVR will be my new adversary, the 7.3 litre Pilbeam had a hard weekend, and the EVO1 Mini special blitzzzed all of us by a mile, but that is normal.

[KS]

Great stuff - now you really need to get yourself a GoPro camera set up - we need to see onboard footage!

This will be perfect - one press of the dash-mounted button (even with a gloved hand) to start, one push to stop Simple!
https://www.wired-remote.com/product-pa ... ally-setup

Check out the website here: https://www.wired-remote.com/
I have two, a GoPro Hero 2and a Hero 7 Black - absolutely essential in my mind.

[Gary71]

Excellent 1st weekend.
Sounds like some stickier rubber is in order very soon, those 1/100th could have been won off the line I guess

[Bootsy]

Great hear after all of your trials and tribulations

[MikeB]

Graham, glad it all went well and the engine feels great, but 5yr old slicks !!! Forget anything else, get new tyres !!!!! You will have more traction, better braking and cornering, grip that matches the new power. There’s no point in upping the rest if the car if the black sticky things aren’t sticky and fresh anymore, you know it makes sense

[Magnum]

Gosh Graham

Don't know you, never been to a hillclimb and site thousands of miles away. But on this dull Monday morning in the office a big smile has crept across my face!

Well done, chuffed for you and also thinking what a cool little community DDK has coalesced!

[rhd racer]

Well done Graham, glad you can feel the benefit of all the improvements.

I have to agree on the tyres point, I would think you could be giving away a second plus on 5 yr old rubber. I am about to do my 2nd year on Avon Supersofts, but expect it to be their last, even after really carefully storing them over the winter. It would be nice to be pleasantly surprised but the hillclimbing money pit usually says otherwise!

Hope to catch up on a hill soon,

Cheers
Wayne