Deacon

It'll be very interesting to see how anyone on the ps4's goes in the Sprint series because I really don't think there's much in their dry grip to the Cup2's I'm running.

Pilot 4's (my phone auto corrected out the apostrophe before for some reason)

Pilot sport 4s will definitely be the route I'll be going if I get some normal road tyres again. I was very impressed with how the people on them at Oulton Park were going. They don't seem a massive step down from the cup 2's in terms of the grip they offer but with obviously far superior wet weather performance.

You need to whack an ad up on the reliant robin owners club 😂😂😂

I use one of these (although mines the older version) and an SJ cam. http://www.headrestmount.co.uk They do sell packages with cameras.

Yeah I did mention the off part to point out the ridiculousness of it really.

That seems to be correct. As long as you set it on the drive before you leave (with the car off) and don't touch it again until you arrive (and have turned the car off) you're ok.

Legally you can't touch the sat nav either...

What you swapping to @don out of interest?

You can only attend if you make it into the 500 I'm afraid. You'll find there are lots of drop outs closer to the time though (I.e. Thursday / Friday). If you aren't in the 500 you won't receive the badge you need to display for entry.

Cheers @Ade. I'll keep my eye on it and maybe get @Riceburner to check it out when it's in for it's service and MOT soon.

It's hard to say on their own. They've been on for about a year but until Oulton I'd only done sprints which obviously don't really tax the brakes much. For the price they seem a bit of a no brainier to be honest.

Thought I'd give a bit of an update on the upgraded brake set up I had fitted. The upgrade was a set of stoptech centric discs, project mu hc800+ pads, Hel lines and ferodo dot 5.1 fluid. I already had a set of 911 gt3 brake ducts fitted too. For normal road use the brakes are definitely not as sharp as the stock set up which is mainly due to the pads needing a bit more temperature to get working properly. At Oulton Park on Friday the brakes obviously got far more of a workout. Project mu talk about how progressive the brakes are in their literature and this is definitely true - much more so than the stock set up IMO. The initial travel on the pedal does not equate to the same level of braking that the stock set up gives feeling less 'assisted' than the stock set up but when you're further into the pedal travel the stopping power is very good. This seems to be an excellent set up for track work and trail braking as there is much more progressive braking to play with before hitting the 'meat' of the stopping power. I must admit though that I'm not 100% sold on it for my personal taste - I think I prefer the more linear feel of something like the stock set up. However this may just be a case of being very used to the stock set up after 4 years and something different feeling odd. I experienced no brake fade at all on any of the sessions I ran (max 20 mins) but obviously the weather wasn't the greatest - it'll be interesting to see how they hold up on a hotter, drier day which will place more demands on them.

I'm on ferodo dot 5.1. Seemed to hold up to Oulton on Friday quite happily.

Pm'd

Both of these sound quite plausible!

They use both @nikndel

While I still remember I did 98.6 miles at Oulton and managed a whole 14.7mpg 😂

After their trial by fire at Oulton I can report that the Motons were simply awesome. The weather was very changeable yesterday and much of the day was wet or very wet so I left them exactly as they were when I arrived (2 clicks from fully soft). They really allowed the car to breathe with the circuit while keeping excess roll well in check. I don't know the correct names (I'm generally terrible with names which isn't great for a teacher!) but their was one section on the track where there were two quite noticeable and large bumps in the track which you were hitting at around triple figures before braking heavily - the dampers soaked these up and kept the car beautifully composed. On the way home Waze sent me a rather strange route which involved a lot of very bumpy country roads which the dampers just soaked up beautifully. I really was impressed. However, I'm not suggesting these have given the car a limo like ride - with the design of our dampers that's never going to be possible imho. I'd also still recommend the Tein Flex A's for purely road use. The Motons soft are now similar to the Flex A's when they're set towards fully stiff but obviously with a world of further adjustments to stiffen them more. Since the modifications on Monday for anyone who tracks a bit and uses the car on the road I'd happily recommend the Motons whereas previously I'd really have only recommended them if the majority of your use was track.

On Monday I spent the day at AST having a few more tweeks made to the Motons. While the low speed damping was excellent they just weren't as happy as I'd have liked with the high speed damping (the stuff you feel more pottering around on a daily basis). AST had a plan as they felt it wasn't a spring issue but rather a damping one. To remedy this they produced custom pistons with 4 extra bleed holes for the rear and 2 extra for the fronts along with enlargement of some of the existing bleed holes. They went with less at the front to keep the precision and taughtness that you want on turn in. Changing the piston like this reduced both the compression and rebound damping. AST wanted to keep the compression a little lower but return the rebond to as it was so they revalved the dampers to achieve this. So did it work? Yes. When I first drove it, after just the rears being done, the difference was marked. The overly fidgety nature at low speeds and slight bounce this brought had gone. With the fronts done too the transformation was complete. The drive back felt more like a 'normal' car and that was with the dampers set to 2 clicks from fully soft - previously full soft was needed for road use. Finally the dampers felt like they could 'breathe' with the road 😀 I'm at Oulton Park today so they'll definitely get a trial by fire and I'll report back on how they do later 👍

Around 7k miles and my car lives outside. I was a little disappointed in the state of my teins in a similar time period of time to be honest. Corrosion on the top mounts and some of the painted coating flaking off. If I was fitting teins again at any point I'd definitely give them a good coating with ACF50.

They bolt through the lower eyelet you can see on the damper but the solid bushing is not on in this picture.

This is what I see - seems ok to me now?

Yeah I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised @Mark-in-Stoke!

I have no idea. It was weird for me as I tried to post it too and I originally added some text below the box but it added it onto the picture 🤔