View GarageThe John Brash Dash has been run and it was a sucsessful day. The HTCAV had in excess of 80 entries for the day.
The award for the HTCAV member went to Vince Parisi in his newly completed Group Nb Simca Vedette.
And the award to a non HTCAV member went to Garry Roberts in his Indy car powered (700HP) space framed LJ sports sedan.
I had a great day.
I did a total of 10 laps with no incidents in one session. I have to say that I was over cautious and fastest time was a 1.17.9. After the one session I was feeling a bit second hand and it was quite hot air temp of 32 and on the track probably close to 40+.
The full results are on the Natsoft race results page.
I was more than happy with the way that the car went. The tyres were 7 years old and I was getting a bit of wheel spin out of the slow corners. The AASA made us put a temporary chicane up the end of the back straight which slowed us down a bit as the line in the corner was all wrong beacuse of the chicane.
The oil pressure stayed over 50 Psi the whole time even when hot, The brake pedal was a bit low and the front suspension set up was all wrong.The engine sounded sweet and nice and strong a nd pulling all the way to 7000rpm although it did stumble a bit out of slower corners.
A good session with a carby specialist and a session on a dyno wouldn't go astray to get the carbies right. The gearbox being an XU1 with the tall 3rd is not really conducive to getting on the power band going from 2nd to 3rd. I may have to invest in a V8 box and put my XU1 input shaft into it to get the better ratios. I have a spare XU1 box with a genuine GMH input shaft not the chinese chewing gum replicas.
My fastest time was within 5 seconds of what I have done previously but after a 7 1/2 year lay off I didn't think that that was too bad. I didn't hit anyone and noone hit me. I didn't flip it off the track but stayed away from any real dices. If some one looked like leaning on me I'd just move over and let them through. It was a speed meeting not a race so there wasn't even a sheep to win let alone a sheep station.
The idea was to get the car out there, see if I still enjoyed it and pay a tribute to my mate John. I think I achieved all that I wanted.
I will probably start putting the money aside to compete in the regularity at Sandown Historic in November. and a couple of sprint meetings as well.
