18th-May-20, 05:44 PM
Found a surprising but obscure issue with mine when it came to 'magless' track time.
The performance was disappointing even taking into account the fact it was a more simple 'Home Series' car.
Reviews seemed to point at it being not too far off the pace of the full race version but mine was sluggish, 'front end hopped' around corners and cornering was quite unpredictable, with varying degrees of breakaway even at a steady throttle.
Trying various different tyres didn't make much difference but it was when finally replacing the originals that I noticed - the back end of the interior tray wasn't fixed in place.
Effectively it was hinged from the front fixing points and moved up and down at the rear. At rest it looked ok but when moving rubbed on the tyres to varying degrees depending on acceleration, braking and cornering.
Removing it was a bit of a fiddle as it looked like the interior was installed before the rear rolled pan/bumper was fixed in place but it was possible to ease it out, clean up the mounting points and reinstall it after a liberal dose of GS Hypo cement on all four corners. I left it for most of the afternoon to set, before reassembling the car and giving it a quick run - and boy was it quick, even with the standard tyres.
Still had the front end hop though, which turned out to be a jamming guide flag. It's sprung loaded but would stick at the top of its travel, before suddenly releasing. This was happening several times in quick succesion in a corner, accounting for the hop. For now I've just oiled the shaft and spring but will need to either remove the spring or replace the whole thing at some point. However, so far I've had no luck removing the flag.
The performance was disappointing even taking into account the fact it was a more simple 'Home Series' car.
Reviews seemed to point at it being not too far off the pace of the full race version but mine was sluggish, 'front end hopped' around corners and cornering was quite unpredictable, with varying degrees of breakaway even at a steady throttle.
Trying various different tyres didn't make much difference but it was when finally replacing the originals that I noticed - the back end of the interior tray wasn't fixed in place.
Effectively it was hinged from the front fixing points and moved up and down at the rear. At rest it looked ok but when moving rubbed on the tyres to varying degrees depending on acceleration, braking and cornering.
Removing it was a bit of a fiddle as it looked like the interior was installed before the rear rolled pan/bumper was fixed in place but it was possible to ease it out, clean up the mounting points and reinstall it after a liberal dose of GS Hypo cement on all four corners. I left it for most of the afternoon to set, before reassembling the car and giving it a quick run - and boy was it quick, even with the standard tyres.
Still had the front end hop though, which turned out to be a jamming guide flag. It's sprung loaded but would stick at the top of its travel, before suddenly releasing. This was happening several times in quick succesion in a corner, accounting for the hop. For now I've just oiled the shaft and spring but will need to either remove the spring or replace the whole thing at some point. However, so far I've had no luck removing the flag.
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