Weight loss surprises

[Neil Haughey]

ORIGINAL: 944 man

There are two ways.  Old schook: blow torch and a scraper or more up to date: acid dip in Dudley*.

Simon

*substitute colonial city.

Or another way that includes option 2, buy an EMC fully prepared motorsport shell on exchange and transfer mechanicals/dash/loom into *new* shell.

 

[Neil Haughey]

Mike I take my hat of to you (if I had a hat of course), utmost respect for doing enduro racing. I imagine you must have had an incredible level of fitness.

 

[berg944]

I imagine you must have had an incredible level of fitness.

Had is correct!!!!!

I used to work at it. It would take 3 months to get fit but only 3 weeks not practising to lose it.

I never made it to expert (super human) class but usually came half way down the clubman. My best was 8th out of 100 but I finished all but 2 races.

Picture of a night flight[]

Mike[:'(]

 

[pauly]

ORIGINAL: sawood12

ORIGINAL: pauly

All the anti bike arguments make me smile, your destiny is largely in your own hands on a bike, if you don't like them fine I wouldn't try and convince you otherwise, but you are missing out on a far more involving experience than driving any 944.

I don't agree with that. Whenever you climb on board anything mechanical and hit the road your destiny is never completely in your own hands - that is just the problem with bikes. How many times has someone pulled out on you at a junction? On a bike your stopping distances are lower than a modern car with fat tyres and ABS - especially in the wet and if you are unable to stop you are far better protected in a car. The stats speak for themselves.

I'm not anti bike by any stretch, its just for me the risk vs. thrill factor just doesn't balance. Yes they are a hoot, but not enough of a hoot or out-weigh the risks.

Well I said largely not completely, I'm not trying to turn this into a bike v car argument but for your information ABS is available on bikes and I don't ride in the wet anymore, with regard to junctions whether I'm in a car or on a bike I always assume people haven't seen me and drive defensively. Finally in my view the people that ride like cocks drive the same way, maybe on the bike they will only hurt themselves.

 

[944 man]

ORIGINAL: Neil Haughey

ORIGINAL: 944 man

There are two ways. Old schook: blow torch and a scraper or more up to date: acid dip in Dudley*.

Simon

*substitute colonial city.

Or another way that includes option 2, buy an EMC fully prepared motorsport shell on exchange and transfer mechanicals/dash/loom into *new* shell.

Kev used to be old school: now he sends them to be acid dipped in Dudley... []

 

[Hilux]

Well the problem John is that I am a bit risk adverse. If I get contract work for the next 2 years solid then no worries. If I sacrifice the 968 to get a landcruiser and trailer then I am sure I can make it work. Racing a car has been my dream ever since I was a lad so sacrifices have to be made and I am very lucky to have a wife to be that is a total petrol head and doesn't mind living like paupers to make it happen []

By the way putting 5 large in a bucket and setting fire to it, umm that sounds like buying a Porsche []

If you REALLY want to go racing on a budget buy a small car (205/Clio/Nova/Maestro/Fiesta and in particular probably the cheapest way is via a Mk 2 Golf as bits are plentiful and loads of scrappys full of them) and go 750 clubman racing or build a Locost. To prep and track a 944/968 so as to be competitive (I mean so as to keep up) is probably £15k hence the "buy one already done" advice recently posted on here a little while ago.

My brother did grasstrack form the age of 6. Anyone who's ridden a motorbike in anger, over a period of time, has an awful lot of broken bones and enough metal in them to set the alrms off every time they try to board a flight. He was pretty lucky, junior races are less competitive than adults, but still broke a lot of bones.

My son (now 20) used to mountain bike seriously and broke bones. He has ridden crossers from age 14 and done all sorts of damage and has purchased the crosser he now owns off his friend who broke his back (he`s ok now but will never ride again and is still off work a year later)

Another couple of mates came away from superbikes on the road after crashes - 40 year old born again or first time bikers are known in A&E depts as 'organ donors' !! - and tried a small racing series by buying 2nd hand race prepped bikes and blew them up and came off on many occasion in testing and racing (luckily with only sprains and bruises) it cost them an absolute fortune to replace the trick bits they broke and it came to something like £800 ish per bike per race when it was all totted up at the seasons end.

I still say drive what you like..........we`ll all be dead one day its just that a m/bike is a quicker way to guarantee it []

Not as much fun as an MX bike but as I can hardly walk some days I will settle for the Porsche

All the anti bike arguments make me smile, your destiny is largely in your own hands on a bike, if you don't like them fine I wouldn't try and convince you otherwise, but you are missing out on a far more involving experience than driving any 944.

Try a CEC Westy on the road and a BEC Westy `busa on track if you want a four wheeled motorbike - I`m not joking either - if it wasnt that they are so impractical I`d certainly have kept mine. Catering vans are also very capable also but are stupidly expensive and dynamically no better if both are similarly equipped.

 

[pauly]

ORIGINAL: Hilux

Try a CEC Westy on the road and a BEC Westy `busa on track if you want a four wheeled motorbike - I`m not joking either - if it wasnt that they are so impractical I`d certainly have kept mine. Catering vans are also very capable also but are stupidly expensive and dynamically no better if both are similarly equipped.

I bought my 1st litre bike about 30 years ago, had quite a few since then, I reckon another couple of years and the novelty will wear off [], I'd love a Ariel Atom but prices are still a bit steep, I know I'd miss the 2nd gear mono's though [].

 

[Neil Haughey]

ORIGINAL: Hilux
To prep and track a 944/968 so as to be competitive (I mean so as to keep up) is probably £15k hence the "buy one already done" advice recently posted on here a little while ago.

I came to the conclusion many many months ago that you really only have 2 ways to do this with a 944/968;
Route 1 don't bother trying to throw together a race car and just strip and basic prep for track day / fast road using a decent bolt in cage like the SD mulitpoint.
Route 2 buy a motorsport shell prepared by someone like EMC and build the race car in that shell. The reason being that as Andrew has said before and I am sure we all agree, the value of a race car of this type in its bodyshell/cage. Something done peice-meal by someone with no provenance on this car will not add much value IMHO, judging by the prices commanded by EMC shelled cars they command a hefty premium.

I was starting off down the 3rd way which is a sort of mad halfway house but came to the conclusion recently that this would not add any value to the car but still cost me a lot of time and money. Since I don't have 12K or 15K in cash to hand the "buy a car" route is closed so I just accepted the Route 1 approach. I then mentioned to my brother about the route 2 approach and being that he likes to see a job done properly he immediately offered to transfer my S2 with the GAZ 2 way suspension etc that I already have into an EMC shell for FREE! (he is out of work and would like a good project to show off his skills) Now you can't tell me that an offer like that doesn't justify some very serious consideration. This is the position I am now, and in essence this is the reason why I am going to EMC on Saturday. The decision is fairly stark.

 

[Hilux]

Sorry Neil you misunderstand me.

I wasnt being clever or suggesting you had or had not the required funds but what I meant to suggest was that you could buy a ready prepped car for 6-10k that will probably have had some 15 - 20k put into it and straihgt out of the box go off tomorrow in the series and have fun in it.