Tom's UVA fugitive, Tom runs a 14s quarter mile :)

I had a sump plug temp sensor on my saab, ripped that tab clean off. Admittedly you have a lot more ground clearance than I did. I ended up soldering a wire on to the stub.
Some kind of shield may be worth a thought though.
Dan

Excellent if the wire gets ripped off then you have far bigger problems to deal with.
Dan

As far as I know from anybody who races VWs if you stop spinning the tyres you start blowing the gearboxes to smithereens lol

Thanks to Darkspeed we now have a couple of spare fuses gearboxes



And a set of shafts, a AD code engine case (which is a 1600 dual relief one) if I can find some cheap 1600 heads, should be able to build something from it

I’d also heard that, which (along with the cost of drag radials at £250 each) has put me off But will maybe try and find a better tyres for next spring. These ones are date stamped 2017 anyway so probably not the best they can be

Sorry about the other stuff John - we still cant understand why he did what he did - it was not only the VW stuff but also a load of Ginetta/Imp stuff that we had put aside!

Not sure if I should say or not but we found the other 3 Aero barrels ! - We have given strict instructions do not throw these away as well as a load of other stuff that there was no room for in the car. If you drop me your address I will post them on to you - a bit of garage art.

What a cracking weekend, dragged the Fug to Shelsley behind the van



Slight issue on the M40 when one of the front mudguard stay stress fractured (sort of been expecting this, and was warned on here it probably would… so not a huge issue, removed the guard and bodged it on Saturday with a cut down imperial Allen key in the tube





It had started raining just before we arrived. So we improvised. adapted and overcame with a tarp on Friday night and Saturday



Saturday was wet, but the Quick 60 was great to watch (with the exception of Alex in the Integra, but that could have been worse) and the rain didn’t really detract from the spectating anyway, looked challenging for the drivers

Tat auction was hilarious, Rhys bought a load of tat and may have been egged on to win the last car up the hill

Today started with sunshine breaking through, I parked the van as a beacon on the BNMAC stand



Got 4 runs up the hill, with the only issue being the mudguard stay working loose again. Ran really well and the RR photographer attached a go-pro on the 3rd run, so tried a little bit harder and got a bit squirelly through the esses on that run, and then the last run too
Took Tom, Ella and Rhys up.

Will load some photos, GoPro stuff later

Watched some climbs, wandered round the field, and then Rhys got to take the Lupo up the hill (it’s still a 1ltr, and a bit slow) but loved it





Then it was time to load up and trundle home





Look at the weather! Absolutely awesome time

I’m old, the last run up the hill, my ‘IT team’ had wandered off and left me….
So I managed to start the GoPro at the top of the hill (when I thought I was stopping it ) and then filmed the return back to the parking and about half an hour of people walking past it, laughing and pointing at it!!! You know who you are

Anyway, hopefully I’ve managed to get the 3 runs I recorded here

Hello Ian,
You can now see what a…. erm…. ‘holistic build’ it has been
I heard from Steve we did much better on the weather than you at Santa Pod

It gets a bit interesting/weird from here, Tom is just about to go into year 11, and really needs to concentrate on that, so plan is to mothball the Fug until after his exams. But he wants to go to prom in it, so I need to keep it useable until then without doing too much.
After exams we might go a slightly different route for a bit, I’ll pop in and chat but there’s a idea kicking around that we’ll spend the next years scrap money on his first daily once exams are over (assuming he knuckles down… you reading this fugitivetom )

But I’d like to get it into the 13s before we concentrate on other things, so my plan is to run pre-season testing and see what I can do, but as cheaply as possible.
Which we think means;

Making it lighter, lose some of the excess, there isn’t much to it, but the towing point for the a-frame weighs a chunk (will find out at some point when we unbolt it) and see what else we can lose… maybe fit a small tank up front instead of the spun tank (which would make it easier to manage fuel levels and move some weight forward to offset the removal of the towing frame) the seats aren’t exactly heavy but it only needs one etc and there’s some weigh savings to be made with the nut behind the wheel too

Making it grip a bit more, but without blowing the box to bits. A line-lock is cheap, and will be pretty easy to fit, or maybe just swap the rear tyres, or was told about PJ1 trackbite grip promoter stuff, so some research to do there.

Aero, will remove the lightbar and mirror, we’ve got a full screen we can fit, but another suggestion would be to remove as much resistance above the bonnet line as possible, so maybe remove the flyscreen, but more likely the tank and possibly some sort of tornneau cover to smooth air over the engine etc, but again needs some research

I’m really looking forward to see the next evolution of the Fug although, of course, I cannot possibly comment on the weight loss plan given that  the seats for my MG appear to have shrunk quite considerably since I last sat in them! 😔

I’m sure I’ve got a spare line-lock, you’re more than welcome to it next time you’re passing 👌