Joe's NA6

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:07 pm

Nice one Joe!

Looks like Sutton Road is a lot of fun. Must get out there one day.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:34 pm

Two separate facilities on the same road, right next door to each other. Both are good fun.

There's the Driver Training Centre which includes a skidpan, flat course, 4WD course, and a 2.5k circuit. Skidpan is fairly self explanatory; flat course is used predominantly for the ACT motorcycle L and P tests but it is also where the MG club runs their motorkhanas; I've never actually seen the 4WD bt I'm told it's next to useless; and the 2.5k I've only ever seen in use a couple of times, the Skyline Club of NSW somehow managed to run an event there recently, Toyota did a photo shoot there for the 86 launch, and the AFP use it fairly regularly.

Then there's the SDMA Hillclimb circuit next door. Roughly a 1km course.

OurCognitiveSurplus · Postby **OurCognitiveSurplus** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:34 pm

Jeo wrote:The 2.5k I've only ever seen in use a couple of times, the Skyline Club of NSW somehow managed to run an event there recently, Toyota did a photo shoot there for the 86 launch, and the AFP use it fairly regularly.

Yeah, I've had a drive around at a driver training course. It is really really not a race-course. It's sort of made to look and drive like a public road. I think using it as a hill climb course would be certain damage a lot of cars.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:45 pm

3rd outright and 2nd in class in the motorkhana last weekend

Got to be happy with that.

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:49 pm

Nice work Joe. How many MG's actually compete in the events organised by the MG club down there?

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:16 am

Heh, funny you should mention that. A friend of mine with a MGF turned up to have a look and one of the first things he said was something to the effect of “I thought this was an MG Club event?” Normally you’d get 6-8 MGs out of a total field of ~40. This one was a little quieter than normal, maybe 3 MGs out of the field of ~30.

PeterB · Postby **PeterB** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:46 pm

Joe

Well done.

Do you have a full set of results for the motorkhana. If so could you please email a copy to petbro@grapevine.com.au or list results of all MX5s competing, as I am trying to report to the MX5 club on motorsport activities.

thanks

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:45 am

Yes please! And it would be great to see our club's motorkhana performances reported in Club Torque. Can I get a volunteer to write something for Neil, Andrew and Timothy (send to publications@mx5.com.au)? If you're super quick, there's a slim chance they might be able to squeeze it into the issue they've nearly finished. :idea:

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:59 am

Email's sent to both.

Ian Vickers came 5th outright in his NB.
John Thorne was in his NA6 but is listed as a member of the SDMA, not MX5 NSW.
Bradley Cecil is listed as an MX5 club member but was competing in a Mazda 3 (and now I'll have to find him at the next one).

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:35 pm

Thanks Joe. It'll be great to get some coverage on the motorkhanas and hillclimbs that our members compete at.

Bradley is an MX-5 Club member and usually drives an Evo IX at Supersprints. He hasn't competed much over the last two years, but won Class 2D and Type 2 in 2010.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:45 pm

Only a few weeks late, but better now than never.

MX5 club day at Wakefield at the start of this month. Stupidly hot right from the word go but still good fun as always. Skating all over shop in the first three sessions while I was trying to get a handle on tyre pressures, then lost the tensioner and pivot bolt on the alternator. Bodged it back together with a generic bolt which was enough to get it running, drove around the pits a few times and headed for home.I made it about 10km down the road before it died again on the side of the Hume. Luckilly, dad was in a generous mood so borrowed a trailer and came and picked me up.

Achievement Unlocked! right...? Trailered home from (almost) Wakefield. Still, in the two sessions I did get in I had quite a few laps in the 14's and one that was within a 10th of my PB. Given the conditions, I was pretty happy.

Picked up the replacement bolts from Carco this week then headed for my parents place today to fix. All smiles, all easy. The car is now back in my own garage.

Big plans for the break are to change all the fluids, strip some more from the interior and maybe even lose the air conditioning.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:28 pm

Well that was an interesting thing to discover. Went to empty the radiator and less coolant than expected came out. Had a quick poke around and discovered a crack in the bottom radiator hose. Not a brilliant thing to discover but at least it's an easy fix. I even had a spare hose sitting in the track bag so all was well.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:13 pm

Replaced the plug leads last week after noticing that two of them were in more pieces than they should have been.

Entered the NSW club training day at Marulan in March and have even decided to drag dad along too. It's his birthday that weekend so I figured a day on track in my car would be a suitable present.

Will need to check the front brakes soon to see if my uneven pad wear issue was sorted after the last clean out otherwise a full rebuild might in order.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:42 pm

Uneven pad wear was fixed when I last regreased them! Huzzah!

The club day at Marulan was good fun as always. Had two laps at an identical 46.97 but both were quite different laps. The first lap peaked higher going down the hill but had a worse last corner. This obviously tells me that there's some time still left in it

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:11 pm

Jeo wrote:Uneven pad wear was fixed when I last regreased them! Huzzah!

The club day at Marulan was good fun as always. Had two laps at an identical 46.97 but both were quite different laps. The first lap peaked higher going down the hill but had a worse last corner. This obviously tells me that there's some time still left in it

Very decent going around Marulan!

I love it there, so suited to light, nimble cars.

So glad they have timing there now as well.