alister667
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| posted on 11/9/04 at 08:29 PM |
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Some pics from last Sunday at Kirkistown
A kind soul stuck uyp a lot of pics of last Sunday's GTI club track day at Kirkistown.
It's at http://www.jon44w.com/site2/viewthread.php?tid=1517
And there's even a pic of me!!
btw the hayabusa westfields were way quicker than the Ferrari 
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 11/9/04 at 09:43 PM |
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Is that a new bonnet!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like you had fun.
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alister667
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| posted on 11/9/04 at 10:32 PM |
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It was great crack, and it was really good of the GTI club to donate all the track day cash to the MacMillan Cancer Nurses charity. You could bid to
get a lift round Kirkistown in Dennis Biggerstaff's Metro 6R4, or for runs in a Ferrari and a Nissan Skyline. 4,600 quid in total was
raised.
I think I managed about 40-50 laps and 2 1/4 mile runs (I made a mess of both starts but managed 14.6 secs or so) all for 55 quid.
Not bad eh?
And yes, that's my new(ish) re-sprayed bonnet!! I must update that avatar sometime this year!
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 11/9/04 at 11:13 PM |
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Scotlads bonnet nearly came off at knockhill.
Those shitty rubber SVA approved catches are not much cop. Nova Niel Duck taped the catch closed.
lots of fun to be had safely away from KOJAK`s KODAK. Cant wait to get mine running.
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alister667
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| posted on 12/9/04 at 11:04 AM |
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I agree totally about the SVA bonnet catches, I now use 4 decent stainless steel catches and they seem OK. I also made a wee clip that I sikaflexed
to the underside of the bonnet that slips under the nose at the front to stop the bonnet coming up (a bit like westfield's solution).
I also cut some small slits in the side to allow some of the air to escape from under the bonnet - I then covered these with Car Builder Solutions
chrome louvres - you can see them in the pic near the indicator repeater.
I swear the SVA makes a car more dangerous not safer as it's supposed. 
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