kbf71
21-09-09, 07:37 PM
I dont know if anyone will remember me, as i havent been on here for a while. I have been racing a GTE in the 750MC Stock Hatch championship this season in this: http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs269.snc1/9633_582492510404_222304875_5145483_8103368_n.jpg
Well anyway, going into saturday's penultimate race at Snetterton I had a 30 point lead in the championship, and with only 25 points for a win i could have clinched it with a race to spare. I was leading when a car behind suffered a brake failure and i took evasive action into the tight chicane at the end of lap 2. I lost speed but dropped the car into 2nd gear in order to get moving properly again. Unfortuantly just as i was pulling 6500rpm and ready to shift to 3rd i got hit hard from behind. I was halfway through my gearchange as it happened and the jolt made me miss the shift, but i was already hard back on the throttle. The engine over-revved and died :(
With the next race only 24 hours away, and with no way of getting my engine running it seemed like all was lost. However I gathered a team of friends and fellow drivers together and we got my engine out in no time. However we had no engine to go in, and despite everyone's contacts we could not find one. So I called up the hero of this tale: Mr GAZSNOVA of png. Get this folks - this guy lent me an engine, loom, ECU and Snap-on tools (at 9pm saturday night). I only needed the car to run for 15mins of race time and he was sure it could do the job. We loaded the engine into the van and set off on the return leg of our 6hr round trip back to snetterton.
By 7am (having worked all night) we had a mix 'n' match engine using Gaz's bare engine and all of my ancillaries. I had no gasket sets so i couldnt take the engine apart, I just had to have faith in it. It seemed to run pretty well, even using the map in my MBE ecu which meant we didnt need to re-wire anything! In the race I was able to hang on in 3rd place which was meant i secured the title by 8 points.
Gaz, I can never thank you enough for this and I wanted to make sure everyone on here knows what you did for us this weekend :)
Well anyway, going into saturday's penultimate race at Snetterton I had a 30 point lead in the championship, and with only 25 points for a win i could have clinched it with a race to spare. I was leading when a car behind suffered a brake failure and i took evasive action into the tight chicane at the end of lap 2. I lost speed but dropped the car into 2nd gear in order to get moving properly again. Unfortuantly just as i was pulling 6500rpm and ready to shift to 3rd i got hit hard from behind. I was halfway through my gearchange as it happened and the jolt made me miss the shift, but i was already hard back on the throttle. The engine over-revved and died :(
With the next race only 24 hours away, and with no way of getting my engine running it seemed like all was lost. However I gathered a team of friends and fellow drivers together and we got my engine out in no time. However we had no engine to go in, and despite everyone's contacts we could not find one. So I called up the hero of this tale: Mr GAZSNOVA of png. Get this folks - this guy lent me an engine, loom, ECU and Snap-on tools (at 9pm saturday night). I only needed the car to run for 15mins of race time and he was sure it could do the job. We loaded the engine into the van and set off on the return leg of our 6hr round trip back to snetterton.
By 7am (having worked all night) we had a mix 'n' match engine using Gaz's bare engine and all of my ancillaries. I had no gasket sets so i couldnt take the engine apart, I just had to have faith in it. It seemed to run pretty well, even using the map in my MBE ecu which meant we didnt need to re-wire anything! In the race I was able to hang on in 3rd place which was meant i secured the title by 8 points.
Gaz, I can never thank you enough for this and I wanted to make sure everyone on here knows what you did for us this weekend :)