The Jim Smith Project - it lives!

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Jan 03, 13 4:29 pm

few more ,and one of when they were black,,,,, they look alrightish ,,,,Well they could not look any worse,,,,could they ????

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Thu Jan 03, 13 4:55 pm

I wantone of those scatter sheilds

Make please Pete ??

The Chrome paint looks fine Pete...
There is a place near me that does chrome finish powder coating its F...ing expensive and yes its good, but scratch it and you cant touch it up !!

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Jan 03, 13 5:09 pm

AllKiller wrote:I wantone of those scatter sheilds
Make please Pete ??

The Chrome paint looks fine Pete...
There is a place near me that does chrome finish powder coating its F...ing expensive and yes its good, but scratch it and you cant touch it up !!

CSR $320 plus shipping and tax,,,,, cheeper than new legs....

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Jan 10, 13 3:45 pm

While i am having a bit of a sabaticle,,hence the volume of my posts lately..i am trying to get some work done on the car,,,,,Tidy up boot and redo fuel system is something thats been on the boil for a bit,,,,couple of before pic ,,,Scrapped the old paint of the orgional old wheel tubs ,,,to find ole Jim Smith had built them out what seems to be galvanised sheet ,,,,,now i do not like to speak ill of the dead ,,,but Jim,,, come on an old water tank for wheel tubs????anyway they are staying ....... more to follow over the next few days ...

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Thu Jan 10, 13 5:18 pm

I know it doesn't fit in with the period look of your car, but.....

I saw some lovely Carbon tubs at Andy R today, both finished at some pre pregged material being readied for manufacture.

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Thu Jan 10, 13 6:33 pm

mopar_mark wrote:I know it doesn't fit in with the period look of your car, but.....

I saw some lovely Carbon tubs at Andy R today, both finished at some pre pregged material being readied for manufacture.

Mark did you see his new pro mod???rumour has it someone on here is a member of the new AR pro mod Camaro crew

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Thu Jan 10, 13 8:14 pm

What do you mean rumour, he's told anyone and everyone who stands near him for more than 30 seconds........

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Thu Jan 10, 13 10:45 pm

pete walton wrote: Mark did you see his new pro mod???rumour has it someone on here is a member of the new AR pro mod Camaro crew

Yes, I had good look around it Monday & today. Typical Andy build, with lots of exotic materials, new designs. Will be another master class when completed.

Even got the chance to chat to Andy W this morning.

Also spent quite a bit of time talking about his carbon fibre 'Stuff' he is producing.

I didn't ask him, who from here is crewing for him, then again I didn't know. Is it that hard to get a job on a Team, I just assumed we all got asked on Teams

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Fri Jan 11, 13 9:15 am

It is actually hard finding good crew for pro mod, I have crewed for Graham Ellis (Badbird) for years & during that time we have got through quite a lot of people. It can be & often is a lot of hard work, not just at the track but can be most weekends between rounds. Then if you do the whole European tour it means a long week away for each round plus the odd midweek test session. People I know think I've led some kind of glamorous lifestyle flying around Europe racing at the top level, when I explain that you fly to another country pick up a rental car & drive for a few hours to the track then spend 4 or 5 days getting covered in oil, clutch dust & rubber whilst getting to watch half a dozen cars race (the pair in front, your pair & the pair behind usually) then drive back to the airport to catch the next flight home, then back to work for a rest, they see it as a bit less attractive. It is a world away from the days of run wot ya brung & the pressure can be too much for some.
At least now we don't have a clutch so that makes things a bit less frantic & to be fair the turbo motor is a lot kinder on engine maintainence but we have already been working on the car since Christmas to get ready for this years championship, BTW the car has gone back to black It looks Bananarama! awesome!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Jan 11, 13 9:23 am

Great summary, Rob.
We need pictures too - maybe a separate thread

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Fri Jan 11, 13 9:31 am

shovelheadrob wrote:It is actually hard finding good crew for pro mod, I have crewed for Graham Ellis (Badbird) for years & during that time we have got through quite a lot of people. It can be & often is a lot of hard work, not just at the track but can be most weekends between rounds. Then if you do the whole European tour it means a long week away for each round plus the odd midweek test session. People I know think I've led some kind of glamorous lifestyle flying around Europe racing at the top level, when I explain that you fly to another country pick up a rental car & drive for a few hours to the track then spend 4 or 5 days getting covered in oil, clutch dust & rubber whilst getting to watch half a dozen cars race (the pair in front, your pair & the pair behind usually) then drive back to the airport to catch the next flight home, then back to work for a rest, they see it as a bit less attractive. It is a world away from the days of run wot ya brung & the pressure can be too much for some.
At least now we don't have a clutch so that makes things a bit less frantic & to be fair the turbo motor is a lot kinder on engine maintainence but we have already been working on the car since Christmas to get ready for this years championship, BTW the car has gone back to black It looks Bananarama! awesome!

Was you there at Hockenhiem 2009,, i think it was when Grahams steering wheel came flying across the pits????

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Fri Jan 11, 13 10:27 am

pete walton wrote:
shovelheadrob wrote:It is actually hard finding good crew for pro mod, I have crewed for Graham Ellis (Badbird) for years & during that time we have got through quite a lot of people. It can be & often is a lot of hard work, not just at the track but can be most weekends between rounds. Then if you do the whole European tour it means a long week away for each round plus the odd midweek test session. People I know think I've led some kind of glamorous lifestyle flying around Europe racing at the top level, when I explain that you fly to another country pick up a rental car & drive for a few hours to the track then spend 4 or 5 days getting covered in oil, clutch dust & rubber whilst getting to watch half a dozen cars race (the pair in front, your pair & the pair behind usually) then drive back to the airport to catch the next flight home, then back to work for a rest, they see it as a bit less attractive. It is a world away from the days of run wot ya brung & the pressure can be too much for some.
At least now we don't have a clutch so that makes things a bit less frantic & to be fair the turbo motor is a lot kinder on engine maintainence but we have already been working on the car since Christmas to get ready for this years championship, BTW the car has gone back to black It looks Bananarama! awesome!

Was you there at Hockenhiem 2009,, i think it was 2009,, when Grahams steering wheel came flying across the pits ...Me and Harry Palmer ,loading Grumpy in at the Main Event 2010ish.... I enjoyed it when i helped Dave ,,,but i am no rush to do it again,,,,Mantrop park was me favorite track,,,,when they called the superstocks they had to go past our pit....chuff me that was a car show in itself...."You have got an unhealthy fascination for cars that weigh to much and have doors Walton"" nice one Grumpy

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Fri Jan 11, 13 11:04 am

Woody found the time to fix the car ,,,but most of the time he was networking

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Fri Jan 11, 13 11:39 am

shovelheadrob wrote:It is actually hard finding good crew for pro mod, I have crewed for Graham Ellis (Badbird) for years & during that time we have got through quite a lot of people. It can be & often is a lot of hard work, not just at the track but can be most weekends between rounds. Then if you do the whole European tour it means a long week away for each round plus the odd midweek test session. People I know think I've led some kind of glamorous lifestyle flying around Europe racing at the top level, when I explain that you fly to another country pick up a rental car & drive for a few hours to the track then spend 4 or 5 days getting covered in oil, clutch dust & rubber whilst getting to watch half a dozen cars race (the pair in front, your pair & the pair behind usually) then drive back to the airport to catch the next flight home, then back to work for a rest, they see it as a bit less attractive. It is a world away from the days of run wot ya brung & the pressure can be too much for some.
At least now we don't have a clutch so that makes things a bit less frantic & to be fair the turbo motor is a lot kinder on engine maintainence but we have already been working on the car since Christmas to get ready for this years championship, BTW the car has gone back to black It looks Bananarama! awesome!

With you there Rob, even at my level of competition back in the days at the Pod, there wasn't much time to watch anything unless you got knocked out of comp in the 1st round

Always something to do/check even on a well set up slammer, the car always came first!, everythings gotta be "right". The RWYB crowd have got it easy with all the time they want between runs, and probably cannot imagine what competition racing is like with the routine/schedule and the work that goes on between rounds getting it ready for the call up.

It may not be so much "Fun", like running for a Time Slip, but I wouldn't have had it any other way....not everyones cup of tea.

Will we see 6.0's this year?

Les

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Fri Jan 11, 13 2:05 pm

We are aiming to be in the 5.90s, the motor makes more than enough power. It has run enough mph & if you overlay segments of different runs it has already been there on paper. Just need to put it all together in one run!
Pete, I have been to Hockenhiem several times & Graham has thrown out his dummy at some point most times. I must say I do like it at Mantorp, we always get on really well with the Swedes, don't like Allastaro, the Finns are very officious & we had a few heated exchanges when we had to do an engine change overnight without being allowed to use power tools including battery operated stuff. We were first out in the morning & we made it with about 15 minutes to spare.