Hamish Posted June 20, 2019 Report Share Posted June 20, 2019 Hi if you live in the northwest, enjoy club motorsport and not doing anything on 29th June come and have a day out https://www.liverpoolmotorclub.com/aintree-sprints/ Unfortunately there are only 2 TRs in the class for the club champs. Me in my 3a and Steve small in his full racing TR7 V8. Poor Steve will have seen the entry list this morning and realised that he will have his work cut out against my 3a the question is will he halve my time to be twice as quick as me !!!!! there is a wide variety of cars taking part from the very fast f1 type Goulds to Austin sevens via more modern road cars. Come and say hello if you have nothing planned Pictures from the club web site https://www.tr-register.co.uk/articles/category/competition-news Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted June 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) It’s going to be a lovely day. Pop along and say hello looks like Shaun Roche is there in his beautiful race prep Castrol dolly sprint. Car all prep’ed for tomorrow. Edited June 28, 2019 by Hamish Pics Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted June 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 (edited) Very mix day for me. We normally have 4 runs. 2 practice and 2 to count in competition My first 3 runs I suffered really bad missfire and in between worked so hard changing things to try and fix it. Checked all elecs. Carbs. Fuel in float chambers. Rerouted couple ht leads. And LT leads. Changed plugs. All without joy. Very frustrating. Esp as I had had the car on a rolling road after loads of changes to fuel pumps and ignition etc etc and the miss fire never appeared. problem manifested itself after the first left hander. Even fellow competitors felt sorry for me a stepped in to help - thanks Steve Small with the white wedge above. 70 odd second runs of missfire for 3/4 of the run. Times Usually very low 60’s. ( a bogey of 58 secs!!!!) A motorway run at lunch time suggested all ok at low road speed and corners but manifested itself on a straight motorway so higher speed fuelling !!! ( it’s a road going car and I taped over the numbers) Then decided to put my cheap Aldi elec tyre pump on the fuel line from engine to fuel tank. It must have cleared a partial blockage and I did a 60.98 run. As there was time they gave us another run and I broke the minute ( just) with a 59.98. Best time ever there. Could have been more if the other runs worked !!! a very mixed day. I have in the past, I trying to fix this misfire, siphoned the tank out x3 and it’s very shiny inside (steel). the engine bay pipe work is new and correct size. the only thing I can see is an old 3” length of (rubber?) pipe joining 2 metal sections up in the left chassis area forward of the axle. I cant believe the issue is the metal pipe ? i am now thinking that this small rubber pipe is breaking down and causing a partial blockage. Rather than something in the tank. so this is my next task to replace that pipe at the risk of petrol flow from the tank. That I will try and drain. Edited July 1, 2019 by Hamish Added detail Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ed3265 Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 How frustrating for you, feeling your pain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Some pics by a chap who I believe does this for charity. http://www.whitedogphotography.co.uk/pages/2019-motor-sport-galleries.php?gall_id=292 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted July 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 And the results sheet. You can see the results of my misfire on the slow runs TRR club champ is class 15 Results 2019 June combined.pdf Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted July 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 And this is what aintree used to be like crowds and a very busy grid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted July 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 See the whole story here. rags to riches well it felt like that !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ed3265 Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 Fantastic Hamish, glad you got there in the end. Ed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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