Jason

(naughty) it's all I can do to keep up with the entry duties!

Do we have any volunteers for coordinating a spares list this year?

ferny wrote:The plugs in both the Herald and Acclaim are the colour of a marginally undercooked digestive biscuit. Mine are more bourbon biscuit but then it is a PI :-)

I thought that in the case of Triumphs, the standard cover won't fix over roller rockers but I may be wrong (having neither an alloy cover nor roller rockers!)

You forget the potential for providing free crisps Dave :-)

and Richard's entry is safely "in" too :-)

Having just processed both your entry forms Mike and Alan I must say now, I'm not changing your details so you HAVE to turn up in your Estates now :-)

Wasp in a tin - http://www.youtube.com/embed/-Ct0c3OJQkk

Whoops sorry Tim, didn't mean to steal any thunder

Results?

It might be a good idea to submit a few ideas for course design to the committee - accepting that it'll always be biased towards that persons car and so is unlikely to get implemented un-modified :-) I was surprised that we didn't have more people listening to the marshals as they called out the faults, that would have given you a big clue as to where the tricky areas were - some drivers made the same mistakes at the same gates time and time again. I know I wasn't driving (and I haven't ever done an auto solo) but it struck me that this was a good source of info. Having said that, we didn't want too many people around the timing control as it can get a bit frantic and confusing with too many bodies milling around. This year there seemed to be a lot fewer cone clipping fault, wrong tests (taking the wrong route) were favourite - that's not to say there weren't some spectacular cone murders out there. It was suggested that a decent burial be performed for the one Nigel mullered with Dale's car!

I admit I did get a little thrown by the change but it all worked out fine, learning for next year include Bring more chairs Book a portaloo please - whilst competitors can skulk off to the outskirts for a quick pee, the poor timing marshals are always on duty and so can't easily go off station. Consider some sort of loud speaker for the radio, a central "control" one that just plays what the marshal posts call in so all the timing marshals can hear it (thus freeing up walkie talkie handsets). It can get a bit noisy with loud cars starting and finishing just as a fault is called in. A timetable to run too - always going to be compromised but I felt I needed a point of reference to see how we were doing and also something to remind me to write start and finish of session time on. At some points I had no idea where we were in the order of things :-) Two go peds for the far marshal points (apologies for anyone I sent down there twice, it wasn't a vindictive streak in me, honest) Thanks for everyone making my life easier this year, I never once had to chase up drivers to do their bit, although there were some dawdlers and late comers I was able to man all the points with at least one person and then send reinforcements off to back them up., It seemed to work well and it was always fun to watch them all run when the first car came down :-) Special thanks for the Senior girls, excellent timers both polite and assertive - a couple of times I thought I'd better step in and reposition a car or tell a passenger to get out but no, not necessary, it was already in hand! @ferny - yes I liked the last sessions, although it was a compromise to save time it was very good to see people's times come down as they go the hang of it. It was a very good day :-)

Steve - I live in Reading and I'll be going as I'm marshalling

Could the fuel issues be down to the contents of the tank being sloshed around a damn sight more than usual?

I never thought of this but I have just put an old Toshiba Libretto on fleabay - it's a tiny windows 95 pc with serial port. It's about the size of a video cassette, would be perfect for this sort of thing. I don't expect it to make more than 20 quid. It would fit in the glove box

In my younger days I enjoyed a TVR - Tequilla Vodka and Red Bull, interesting effects, am I drunk, maudlin or high? Having been out "clubbing" in Dublin this week, I can safely say - I am too old for all that!

All this talk of Red Bull and artificial stimulants makes me wonder if anyone else just eats sandwiches and fruit whilst drinking water / Pepsi max (or milk in John's case)? We were quite healthy in the Courier really, although we did enjoy a Scotch pie and I'm sure they aren't exactly natural!

I think McJim's Court Restraining Order lists them all for him (whistle)

The factory played with Lucas Mk2 mechanical injection - http://triumphmuseum.blogspot.com/2009/01/stag-v8-lucas-petrol-injection-inlet.html would look great with some ram pipes going straight up out the bonnet!! 😎

if you're going to build a car to your own spec, better make it in the colour you like, kudos to Beans That said, it is very green! Too green for me although I don't dislike it

Ouch! My eyes hurt!

Indeed, and anything more than a couple of mm between tyre and arch at the rear is a waste :-) Widetrack suspension, Stag brakes, spacers to get over the Stag drums and I have an extravagant 2 mm after a little tickle of both t he arches and the drums with the grinder - the raised lettering on Stag drums was interfering with the wheel/spacer fit and the shape of the KN Gemini wheel clashes with the Stag drums but after some minor surgery, it all fits 8)

During my chats with Brian Englefield, ex-World Cup privateer, he was was very proud that his DIY prepared car handled better than the works cars he owned - the main secret? Rear end negative camber apparently.

ajp wrote: use a grinder to get the old one out slice the bottom off it and twat the f**ker ,refiting reversal of removal without the grinder! That's poetry Andy, did you write the Haynes manual?