LOTRDC - McApe brands hatch race report
Well that'll teach me for being cheeky! Where is your first S2 when we need it eh. Anyways, I'm sure there are plenty on Pistonheads etc. Our challenge will surely be finding a buyer for the yellow peril. What would be needed to get it into showroom condition again? Or of course sell it is Class B race-ready, if anyone were fool enough...robin wrote:Actually, Simon's car is not where I would start as I think it's the VVC; they don't let you tune those at all for some reason, so you would be giving up 15BHP to the rest of the field ... but if it weren't for the VVC engine, yes, a good place indeed!
Cheers,
Robin
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Nice hairdo Neil :lol
FWIW, I've had the same feeling about my car, but wasn't able to proof it.
The feeling I have is that the bearings are simply overheating (heat from brakes, heat from traction etc.)
I'm going to put temp indicators on the bearing house of each of the hubs of my car to see what temps they are reaching.
My car has been consuming wheel bearings this year, I've replaced a total of five bearings at the rear
I *think* I know one possible cause (I've possibly bent the rear caliper plate. which causes the brakes to attck the discs in an odd angle and are trying to squeeze the bearing)
What I don't get is the play getting out when it's cooled down again. When the play is coming from the bearing, I would say the flange is expanding, the bearing is expanding AND the upright is expanding.
The only difference I'd see is the upright beeing ali and the flange and bearing are steel.
I've seriously looked at applying S2 bearing assemblies, but besides the changing pcd (4x100), they simply don't fit. You'd have to start doing complete uprights which would influence offset etc.
Another thing I've tried is looking at a couple of suppliers of these kind of bearings and ask them if they do 4x95.25 pcd studs. None of them do something like that.
FWIW, I've had the same feeling about my car, but wasn't able to proof it.
The feeling I have is that the bearings are simply overheating (heat from brakes, heat from traction etc.)
I'm going to put temp indicators on the bearing house of each of the hubs of my car to see what temps they are reaching.
My car has been consuming wheel bearings this year, I've replaced a total of five bearings at the rear
I *think* I know one possible cause (I've possibly bent the rear caliper plate. which causes the brakes to attck the discs in an odd angle and are trying to squeeze the bearing)
What I don't get is the play getting out when it's cooled down again. When the play is coming from the bearing, I would say the flange is expanding, the bearing is expanding AND the upright is expanding.
The only difference I'd see is the upright beeing ali and the flange and bearing are steel.
I've seriously looked at applying S2 bearing assemblies, but besides the changing pcd (4x100), they simply don't fit. You'd have to start doing complete uprights which would influence offset etc.
Another thing I've tried is looking at a couple of suppliers of these kind of bearings and ask them if they do 4x95.25 pcd studs. None of them do something like that.
