Delta's Tea-Break Natter (The Lighter Side) 2011/12

[delta]

No Jet engine,but does anyone want a milertary wives cd,for nuffink

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by delta

No Jet engine,but does anyone want a milertary wives cd,for nuffink

Is it the full album? Sad I know but I quite like them, especially the one with the tattoos.

[delta]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

Is it the full album? Sad I know but I quite like them, especially the one with the tattoos.

PM your address Tim.Glad it will go to a good home

[Clive Brown]

Originally Posted by delta

PM your address Tim.Glad it will go to a good home

Alternatively, I'm sure a clay pigeon shoot could put it to good use....

[Hunter1300]

Originally Posted by delta

Flyping eck,what compresion ratio is that engine ending up at.

Its not too bad runs 12:1 was up at 14:1 in original form in 1973, total nightmare to get pistons think its about 12-14mm intruder

I'm banned from working on the car today.

[midgetman]

I've been given parts for MiniMM's kart.....at least, a fat b'stard sized seat so that I can have a go testing If I like it I've been promised use of his spare kart for Senior TKM racing, anyone fancy being my "starter motor"?

[Tim Falce]

My daughter is home and asked what I thought of Gangnam Style, I'd never heard of it despite half the planet already having viewed it on Youtube.
The annoying thing is although I don't like it it's now rattling round my head and won't leave.

[gary396]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

......The annoying thing is although I don't like it it's now rattling round my head and won't leave.

I have that problem with certain relatives.......! Merry Christmas to all.

[zefarelly]

Even Gordon doesn't run 14:1 with his homebrew powered Anglebox!

Arthur woke up at 4am . . . then went back to sleep until a respectable 07:30. Lego construction was completed by midday.

Merry Christmas to all.

As for music we have Soul, Ska, Funk and RnB compilations, I've been distributing CD's round the neighbourhood, not a Z list TV amateur in earshot!

[Hunter1300]

14:1 was original engine spec from 1973 also runs twin spark. 1973: that when fuel was was 'fully' leaded an additives were eye watering an the octane rate was Hugh.

New retro 'pin up' calendar is up in the garage, race dates started to be written in, 'racing driver' bath duck now situated in the bath..... Still not aloud to play with new pistons..... Banned from oily activities!!!

[zefarelly]

we can still get proper eye watering fuel, its the price that makes it most eye watering, but its a good insurance policy for properly tuned race engines

[GORDON STREETER]

just surfaced from a serious Christmas day party up the road and finished up taking a couple of Dutch people back to their caravan at the local site ( even more booze) not a clue what time we got in !!!
Just checking the wifi in our local bar at the moment.

[Cliff Ryan]

Santa brought me a new Scalextric, the James Bond set with a Range Rover and a DB5. The Range Rover kept on going round & round all day, whilst the DB5 had intermittent electrical gremlins, the front bumper fell off & it needed a couple of coins stuck to its roof to keep it on the track & overcome the contact gremlins with the track. Bloody classic cars

Good day at the Plum Pudding meeting today in my XJS, even though it was a bit cold with a damp & greasy track this morning & the heavens opened for my second race this afternoon. Thanks Al for coming along & being spanner man & also to Grant for braving the elements to take some really good shots.

I was the only RWD classic there in a field of AWD & FWD classics & moderns ranging from proper Minis to a BMW Mini, with a couple if Escort Cosworths thrown in for good measure. Came 10th & 11th out of 19, a couple of marshals summed it up when they asked me if the XJS was my car, swiftly followed by 'Are you mad?' when I answered yes.

Happy New Year to all

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Cliff Ryan

Santa brought me a new Scalextric, the James Bond set with a Range Rover and a DB5. The Range Rover kept on going round & round all day, whilst the DB5 had intermittent electrical gremlins, the front bumper fell off & it needed a couple of coins stuck to its roof to keep it on the track & overcome the contact gremlins with the track. Bloody classic cars

Good day at the Plum Pudding meeting today in my XJS, even though it was a bit cold with a damp & greasy track this morning & the heavens opened for my second race this afternoon. Thanks Al for coming along & being spanner man & also to Grant for braving the elements to take some really good shots.

I was the only RWD classic there in a field of AWD & FWD classics & moderns ranging from proper Minis to a BMW Mini, with a couple if Escort Cosworths thrown in for good measure. Came 10th & 11th out of 19, a couple of marshals summed it up when they asked me if the XJS was my car, swiftly followed by 'Are you mad?' when I answered yes.

Happy New Year to all

I was up around the hairpin for most of the first race. The XJ Looked fun under braking going in and more fun under power on exit. Solid lines though Cliff. The mini rarely had a sniff of an opportunity despite you being down on power.

About 10 mins into the race I started to trek back down to the esses whch afforded a chance to watch large gaggles of cars braking for the hairpin. The Honda Integra has front and rear wheels locked (I assume both sides) on one lunge along the inside line. Still seemed to be slowing down though. Quite impressive that he kept it pretty much on the tight inside line too.

A few pics to follow soon.

[terence]

Originally Posted by Tim Falce

My daughter is home and asked what I thought of Gangnam Style, I'd never heard of it despite half the planet already having viewed it on Youtube.
The annoying thing is although I don't like it it's now rattling round my head and won't leave.

A few seconds of that was enough for me! Possible reason for it getting as many views as it did could be the amount of ' fans' available.
Something like the "Talking" Dog I can understand.

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by grantp

I was up around the hairpin for most of the first race....

About 10 mins into the race I started to trek back.

that's the real shame about Mallory, isn't it? You can't quite get around the whole lot. Such a pity they can't join up that last bit. (Unless of course they have on the last couple of years since I last went, at which point I'll look a right twit!)

[Al Weyman]

I think you may well be able to now Tim as there were lots of spectators and cars parked on the farside of the track and I haven't seen that before also it looks like they had done a lot of earthworks there.

[garcon]

Originally Posted by Cliff Ryan

Santa brought me a new Scalextric, the James Bond set with a Range Rover and a DB5. The Range Rover kept on going round & round all day, whilst the DB5 had intermittent electrical gremlins, the front bumper fell off & it needed a couple of coins stuck to its roof to keep it on the track & overcome the contact gremlins with the track. Bloody classic cars

Sounds like pretty much any Aston to me, old or new!

[grantp]

Originally Posted by midgetman

that's the real shame about Mallory, isn't it? You can't quite get around the whole lot. Such a pity they can't join up that last bit. (Unless of course they have on the last couple of years since I last went, at which point I'll look a right twit!)

You can walk all around the circuit Max. Access at the hairpin end is a passage through the Admin building iirc. I think the link around the esses was completed 2 or 3 years back.

However I had left the car down at the esses since I had not been intending to head up to the hairpin and you can't get a car up there. Well, I suppose you could (it was so wet even a 4x4 struggled it seems - someone tried it up on to the bank) but it's meant to be a spectator bank.

All it needs is a tunnel ..... oh, hang on, tunnels have not worked out well in the East Midlands so far and given the recent weather and the local fishing ponds it may not be such a sound idea ...

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Cliff Ryan

Santa brought me a new Scalextric, the James Bond set with a Range Rover and a DB5. The Range Rover kept on going round & round all day, whilst the DB5 had intermittent electrical gremlins, the front bumper fell off & it needed a couple of coins stuck to its roof to keep it on the track & overcome the contact gremlins with the track. Bloody classic cars

Coins on the roof probably adversely affected the roll centre thus lifting the electrical contacts .... or something like this. You need to proper AppK fix and make a weight transferred floor for a lower C of G.

Moving on ...

Other than magnets nobody seems to be talking about driver aids.

Back in the day I seem to recall mods that introduced motor braking on over-run and one of the competitors to Scalextric (can't recall the name at the moment) offered an options nylon peg that was a push fit to the body at the back of the car (A Cooper T something in my case) that ran in the slot thus ensuring no tale out shenanigans.

Hardly sport of course but quite good for any novices that turned up to play but had no clue how anything worked or how to control speed.

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

I think you may well be able to now Tim as there were lots of spectators and cars parked on the farside of the track and I haven't seen that before also it looks like they had done a lot of earthworks there.

Last time I went there you could walk round the whole circuit clockwise but not the last few yards around the outside of the hairpin, it was a case of turn round and trek the whole way back anticlockwise to get to my car, which annoyingly I could see from where I stood grrrrr!

It's Max actually, Cliff

Just been in and run my last Skid Car session as the owner has decided to sell up. Anyone need an experienced and certificated itinerant skid control instructor?

[grantp]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Just been in and run my last Skid Car session as the owner has decided to sell up. Anyone need an experienced and certificated itinerant skid control instructor?

Is certificated better than certified?

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Anyone need an experienced and certificated itinerant skid control instructor?

Originally Posted by grantp

Is certificated better than certified?

Grant, pedants belong on pist on heads, you're banned for five minutes, don't come back until 14:06

[Moosehead]

Originally Posted by grantp

Back in the day I seem to recall mods that introduced motor braking on over-run and one of the competitors to Scalextric (can't recall the name at the moment) offered an options nylon peg that was a push fit to the body at the back of the car (A Cooper T something in my case) that ran in the slot thus ensuring no tale out shenanigans.

LOL, I used to add oil to the track on certain corners to increase the tail out shenanigans - of course I always overdid it and ended up with an ice rink for a track! The rear end would even lock up if you jumped off the throttle so you could trailbrake into corners

[midgetman]

Yaroo, cripes chaps if I'd said certified I'd only have got sniggers from the fourth form about my mental state Especially as I live near Devizes which for years was known only as the location of Wiltshire's nut hou.. - er - "special needs centre"