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944S destroyed engine... do I kill it or fix it?

ORIGINAL: Fen

Is there still a slot left for the Enduro drive? No definite decisions yet, but as it's looking quite likely 2007 may be my last chance I'd definitely be up for that especially if I could have a panel to put the company logo on to justify fat Gordon paying part of the cost. It would be a laugh doing the ARDS course together etc. as well.....
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Good news! After waiting 15 minutes on the RAC MSA Licence phone line they have confirmed that my Competition Licence is sufficiently up to date that I can just renew [:D][:D][:D].

I guess we will have to have a magnetic novice cross for the back as I'm not sure I can take such indignity again. :ROFLMAO:.

Obviously I will come along to support my team when they do the ARDS Course. I understand they once failed someone.

Belinda has suggested that I need to start a fitness regime as soon as posible.....should stand me in good stead if I do meet Keira Knightley. [:D]
 
Ah slight problem has occured to me.

If we have to wait for Jon to prepare the car will it be ready for this year? [:D]
 
Right Sims, that's you changing your own tyres at the pitstops too :ROFLMAO:

I suppose we ought to get a bit official and find out the Rules and Regs before we think about taking this any further. I know that the 24hr round is a bit of an 'open' and that lots of cars not normally in the Britcar Championship take part as a one off. There is an old Mercedes from the 80's that drives over, takes part in the race and then drives back to Germany afterwards. There was also a 944 LUX team that I belive finished this year.

The beauty of a 24hr race is its not balls out banzai racing with dicing for position on every lap, so we should be able to stay out of trouble, move over for the big boys, lap with meticulous regularity, eeking out our fuel and as the hours progress we steadily advance up the leaderboard until we make our appearance on the podium :ROFLMAO:

Ok so its the next day and everyones gone home but what the heck.
 
The 944 guys last year obviously made an impact:

At the other end of the scale, but no less important, are the enthusiastic amateurs, exemplified by BBG Racing. The return of 24-hour racing didn't come a moment too soon for John and Tom Ballentyne, Ian Gibson and Stuart Brooks, and they will be looking to repeat last year's good showing, in their Porsche 944.

This is from the organisers web site - http://www.eerc.co.uk/cms/news.php

Regs are here - http://www.eerc.co.uk/cms/e107_plugins/wrap/wrap.php?3

If you need a windscreen polisher count me in [;)]

Go for it [;)]

Pete
 
ORIGINAL: Diver944

The beauty of a 24hr race is its not balls out banzai racing with dicing for position on every lap, so we should be able to stay out of trouble, move over for the big boys, lap with meticulous regularity, eeking out our fuel and as the hours progress we steadily advance up the leaderboard until we make our appearance on the podium :ROFLMAO:
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I have done the Birkett 6 Hour relay and the main problem I found with that is you were out on the track with cars of colossal performance differences. Our team was mid field so you spent as much time looking in the mirror for cars tanking up behind you as you did looking out the front to avoid tripping over slower cars. If anything it was more difficult than racing cars of the same type.

I decided by far the best performance enhancement was a soddin' great rear view mirror.

Unfortunately, thoughts of pottering round disappear straight out of the window when you can see a fast car in front that doesn't seem to be getting away. You know that you can catch him if you just go that little bit faster. [:eek:]

Did I mention the time I set light the the brakes on my Lux chasing an Aston Martin Vanquish around Snetterton. [:D]. Yeh, I thought I had mentioned it.....but not this year. [:)]

One thing that did become apparent on the Birkett is endurance racing is no mean feat. The cars take a hell of a hammering and to finish at all is way above the norm. The Birkett is slightly different to normal endurance racing in that in a team of six you all run your own cars, as a relay. Should be easy then, half hour stint each twice. Fine except by hour three we were down to three cars and by the end only myself an one other car were left in our team. Bear in mind also that these were Kit Cars so 1/3rd of the weight of a 944. They were far less stressed all round.
 
No need for wellies here, though it is actually slightly cloudy rather than clear blue skies today. Of course I am missing all the fun at home; Jap Import dealer's garage blowing down about a mile from my house and free wine, BMW airbags and motorbikes washing up on the shore just up the coast.

We're staying with friends just now, they have a 230m2 house with a pool set in 10 acres about 25 mins from the centre of the city that cost roughly what our 3 bed semi is worth [:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(]
 
ORIGINAL: John Sims
If we have to wait for Jon to prepare the car will it be ready for this year? [:D]
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If you want it to be a 3.4 944 LUX then it will not be ready for 2007.... If you guys really want a 944 2.5 S, with an 8v 944 lux engine, with a bit of tweaking, then it could happen...

Are you guys really serious? If so, I guess I am game.

 
I'm serious if it is feasable

If we can nail down the practicalities then I dont see why it can't be done. The race itself is in September and I personally would be quite happy with a basic Lux that's been prepped to last 24 Hrs. I wonder how many tyres and brakes that would use and if there would have to be any other sort of scheduled maintenance through the race? Good lights may be useful for the night [:eek:]

We also have the situation of a number of us being complete novices in an event with some very fast and experienced drivers in proper FIA GT type cars, but from what I can gather the previous two races have been just like this
 
ORIGINAL: Indi9xx

ORIGINAL: John Sims
If we have to wait for Jon to prepare the car will it be ready for this year? [:D]
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If you want it to be a 3.4 944 LUX then it will not be ready for 2007.... If you guys really want a 944 2.5 S, with an 8v 944 lux engine, with a bit of tweaking, then it could happen...

Are you guys really serious? If so, I guess I am game.
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If you look at the regs, you are not allowed to increase the capacity of the engine from that in the standard car - not sure what the impact of installing an 8v engine in a 16v car would be for their regs, but I can imagine it would not be a problem - looking at the regs, you are not allowed to do much to the engine with regard to tuning etc

Pete
 
ORIGINAL: Diver944

I'm serious if it is feasable

If we can nail down the practicalities then I dont see why it can't be done. The race itself is in September and I personally would be quite happy with a basic Lux that's been prepped to last 24 Hrs. I wonder how many tyres and brakes that would use and if there would have to be any other sort of scheduled maintenance through the race? Good lights may be useful for the night [:eek:]

We also have the situation of a number of us being complete novices in an event with some very fast and experienced drivers in proper FIA GT type cars, but from what I can gather the previous two races have been just like this
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Very serious. Peter is tickled pink that daddy is going to be a racing driver again. No going back now.

Having tracked with most of the culprits, as a team, I would think we could get as much out of the car as anybody, and still be sympathetic with the mechanicals.....I might have to learn not to fry brakes though. [8|].

Will the car be ready for a shake down at our free Donnington Track Day. [:D] As I understand Simon is a bit of a professional on shaking down race cars .....though I doubt we could rise to flying him to Spa this time.

I have a set of 16" P Zeros with two track days worth of wear. I reckon that would give us three hours of tyres at least.

On a serious note, you guys need to check your life insurance and endowment policies. Mine were set up to allow me to race and, as I recall, I paid slightly over the odds as a result.
 
Ooh - we might even get an article in the Porsche Post!

Or, even a sponsorship deal from the Club? I suspect not.....[&:]

Might be a good use for the silly external Register stickers, though! [;)]
 
As I said before, you can count me in!!!
I believe we have a very competant group of guys, we could put a useful team together....
Simon
 
ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Might be a good use for the silly external Register stickers, though! [;)]
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We need to convene a full team meeting to determine how many windows to obscure with the external Register stickers [:D]

I just tried to think of some practicalities like sleeping arrangements, accomodation, setup and clean up pre and post race, how many days I'd need afterwards to recover then I got a big headache [&:]. It is a heck of an undertaking, and that's even if Jon thinks it would be a goer for him.
 
ORIGINAL: Diver944

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Might be a good use for the silly external Register stickers, though! [;)]
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We need to convene a full team meeting to determine how many windows to obscure with the external Register stickers [:D]

I just tried to think of some practicalities like sleeping arrangements, accomodation, setup and clean up pre and post race, how many days I'd need afterwards to recover then I got a big headache [&:]. It is a heck of an undertaking, and that's even if Jon thinks it would be a goer for him.
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Sleep? Have you not heard of Red Bull. There is a shower block at Silverstone ....I assume the comment was posted as you have smelt my overalls after a track day.

I think the RS should be canvasing HQ telling them what a great publicity opportunity this would be and, as Silverstone is only down the road from Cornbury, it would cost them next to nothing to lend us the race trailer. Oh I love that trailer, I have always said what a good investment to the Club it was. [:-]
 
ORIGINAL: John Sims


I think the RS should be canvasing HQ telling them what a great publicity opportunity this would be and, as Silverstone is only down the road from Cornbury, it would cost them next to nothing to lend us the race trailer. Oh I love that trailer, I have always said what a good investment to the Club it was. [:-]
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If this is a serious goer, I will certainly ask! Somehow I think that use of the trailer, and associated publicity, is more likely than sponsorship!!

Don't forget - I'll be on hand in case of technical problems [:D][:D][:D][:D] and I don't sleep in tents!
 
This sounds great. I doubt my driving skills would be upto scratch (yet) but I would be interested in being involved in some other way e.g. pit crew. A registar race car is a superb concept, all the registers should have one!
 
Maybe you can service the handbrake Paul [:D]

I'm very keen to get some track time and instruction together if this is a goer so as not to let the team down. Also available for any grunt work on preparation, though perhaps it would be safer to leave that to the experts.

What colour rubber spoiler decal should we run? [:D]
 
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