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Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar - SOLD
By: mitlom Date: June 27, 2012, 2:37 pm
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I wasn't sure whether to post this in the members section or
customers cars.....but seeing as Jason sorted the head that I
have fitted to the engine I decided it should go in here ;)
When I got the car last year it was someones unfinished
project....I could see potential in it straight away as the
shell was one of most solid Mk1 shells I had seen in a long
time. Here are a few pics of what it was like when I got it....
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It was polybushed all round and already had coilovers fitted,
albeit not correctly or with correct spring rates....but that's
a different story!
The engine fitted would have started life as a DX but has been
bored out to 83mm with special autothermic pistons fitted,
coincidentally Jason is now I believe about to offer these
pistons, taking it up to 1900cc ;) It came with a Stage 1
ported hydraulic head and Piper fast road cam but the engine was
running like a pig and as it wasn't road legal I never got to
see what it went like :(
My first decision was to fit the Stage 3 big valve mechanical
head with Kent GS3 cam I had in my parts hoard, but before this
was to be fitted I decided to ship it down to Jason for a bit of
a re-fresh....good thing I did because despite only having done
one trackday on my old engine and one rolling road session since
I bought it from another 'reputable' tuner Jason informed me the
head had done considerably more and was a real 'lemon' .....the
guides were shot to pieces, the stem seals were knackered, the
vlave clearances were all over the place and the top hat shims
were jammed into the valve spring retainers rather than acting
on the end of the stem of the valve :o It was lucky the thing
hadn't self destructed to be honest, add to this the fact that
the valve seats had been cut so deep that the valves were in
effect completely shrouded....to say I was angry would be an
understatement! Jason told me not to panic and that while none
of the above was ideal he could salvage it and make it what I
had orignally paid for....I've got to admit I was sceptical as
to me it sounded like it was only good for one thing....ramming
it where the sun don't shine on the guy I bought it from lol
Fair play to Jason though because he did exactly what he
promised and after I had buretted the cc of the pistons and
given him the deck height he calculated how much needed to come
out of the head in order to make the most out of the 300deg
cam....and yes you guessed it that wasn't originally right
either >:(
Not only did Jason ship me back a head fit for purpose, but it
was followed up with aftersales help and advice second to
none...in fact he was almost keener than me for it to be up and
running :D
While the head was down with Jase I shipped the car off to a
friends bodyshop to get that all sorted....it came back like
this.....
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I won't bore you with the rest of the hanging of bits on...just
the important engine stuff ;)
I fitted the head (Jason had already shimmed the cam before
sending it back), wrapped the 4-2-1 Magnex manifold, set the cam
timing and it fired up pretty much first time ;D
I've made some subsequent tweaks, such as fitting a 1600 air
metering head, relocating the battery so that I could shield the
airbox from the engine bay and get a decent cold air feed fitted
along with a 16v WUR, altering the dizzy advance curve (again to
Jason's recomended settings)
The result of all the work was that the engine produces 155bhp
at 6800rpm and certainly puts a huge smile on my face ;D I
popped my 1/4 mile sprint 'cherry' last weekend at Inters,
posting a 6.78sec 0-60 and 1/4 mile in 15.14secs. Not bad for a
first effort and I have no doubt that with better traction (less
loud pedal from me lol) the car would be sub 6.5sec and well in
to the 14s.
Here's what the car looks like in finished fettle......
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And here's a video of it in action last Saturday at Mallory Park
where we managed to lap in sub 57secs :o
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SISVbMXSvU
I can not thank Jason and JMR enough for all their help and
advice.....just to show my commitment to them and their
abilities they are already building the engine for my next
project....but more about that on another thread....
Cheers,
Tim
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: Robin_16v Date: June 28, 2012, 9:19 am
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Look's great;)
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: Stooza Date: August 1, 2012, 12:59 pm
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Blimey Tim, what a track car! Sounds lush and goes like mad :)
really enjoyed the battle you had with the mini. Were you
running 888's?
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: mitlom Date: August 1, 2012, 2:27 pm
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[quote author=Stooza link=topic=22.msg215#msg215
date=1343843954]
Blimey Tim, what a track car! Sounds lush and goes like mad :)
really enjoyed the battle you had with the mini. Were you
running 888's?
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Hi Stu,
Cheers mate :)
No I've got Dunlop Direzza DZ03Gs fitted, absolutely awesome
tyre with great feedback ;D
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: dumma Date: August 1, 2012, 4:40 pm
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Very nice sir. 8)
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: Stooza Date: August 1, 2012, 7:21 pm
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Hmm, might just look into a set of those then as 888's are
expensive 8)
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: mitlom Date: August 2, 2012, 1:40 am
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[quote author=Stooza link=topic=22.msg221#msg221
date=1343866862]
Hmm, might just look into a set of those then as 888's are
expensive 8)
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Stu,
The cheapest place I found was www.mrtyremotorsport.co.uk, they
are in Birmingham. Tel no. is 0121 551 2131.
Cheers,
Tim ;D
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: Stooza Date: August 5, 2012, 12:11 pm
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Ah wicked, cheers! :)
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: mitlom Date: August 20, 2012, 2:07 am
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So it's been a while since I last updated the
thread.......following Mallory and Inters I found that the rear
crank seal was leaking a bit, luckily it was not bad enough to
have contaminated the clutch plate :thumbup:
So off the gearbox, clutch and flywheel came only to find that
it appeared the leak was not actually from the seal itself but
instead some muppet had fitted the wrong gasket to the oil seal
housing [:s] I honestly have no idea what it was off but it
certainly wasn't the right one for this engine! Anyway as I had
a new seal I decided it would be silly not to change it as well
as the gasket as I had everything apart. I also took the
oppportunity to replace all the gearbox oil seals while the box
was off (pushrod seal, input shaft seal, driveflange seals and
caps)
With this done the clutch and gearbox were refitted, but while I
was under there I decided to replace the standard gear linkage
with a kit I got off Smudge a while ago....so this little lot
was duly fitted
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I also thought I'd change the bushes on the other parts of the
linkage and imagine my surprise when I cleaned up one the main
pivot arm to find it was in fact a Neuspeed part :o....
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As people had been so quick to point out that my steering wheel
was not straight after the video I posted of Mallory I thought
I'd straighten this as well lol While fiddling with bits in the
car I got the under dash roll cage bar in as well :)
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Whilst I was in a fettling mood I decided to take the hot air
gun to the cars plastic trim to get rid of the faded gray look,
I then treated it all to a coat of bumper restoring treatment
and have got to say I was impressed with the overall result
:thumbup:
Before........
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After........
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Then it was time for a fluid check, a good wash and coat of
polish before loading it on the trailer ready to head down to
Nick Penfold's house in preparation for Castle Combe on the
Monday
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[SIZE=5][U][B]13/8/12 Castle Combe Trackday[/B][/U][/SIZE]
After a great BBQ and a few beers on Sunday evening, we woke up
nice and early Monday morning and made the short drive from
Nick's to Castle Combe Circuit, we were hopeful of a few dry
runs before the forecast rain but only managed to get one decent
dry run in unfortunately, it was the first time I'd driven Combe
so it was nice for me to get a feel for it before the rain ;)
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_qj8ablrs
They said during the briefing that they weren't going to bother
with the red and yellow flag as the circuit would be VERY
slippery when the rain hit as they had a lot of activity on the
circuit the previous week.....they were not kidding! lol
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccO9h8xqjIk
Jason (Mr Hillclimber) made the two hour drive up from the SW to
check out what was going on and to have a drive in both Nick and
my cars.....
Thanks for the comments at the end of this video Jason, I felt
the car is pretty much there but always nice to get someone
elses opinion
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As some of you may have spotted on the JMR blog thread the car
is very shortly going to be going up for sale, just going to get
it MOT'd in the next week or so in order for it to be truly road
legal......having said this I'm not going to lie I don't think
it'd make anybody a godd daily as I don't feel it'll be that
useable on the road due to the 300deg cam fitted which K jet
really doesn't like at low engine and road speeds. Having said
this if it were fitted with carbs or ITBs and SEM it would be
very drivable even at low speeds not to mention the :D
factor......lol
So if anybody is interested in it before I actually get round to
doing the For Sale ad then drop me a PM.
Tim
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Re: Tim Moll's Red Mk1 trackcar
By: Stooza Date: August 27, 2012, 5:56 pm
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So, after it's sold, what's the next build you got In mind?
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