Good point, when is the next one?

Feel sorry for you and wishing it's nothing major. BTW, do you remember what make they were?

I feel sorry for the people who are in experienced!!
Blowing these diff's (like the bloke you told us about) must be pissed off!!
But I would like to add te Quaife I stock at auto
Lusso is a DIRECT fit into the 20vt box!!

Nigel, I'm sooo gutted for you... I there's any thing I can do to help, let me know!!

Familiarity breeds contempt then amidst your fitters.

To the untrained eye Marco yes they do.
Coupe box wasn't designed for this diff,the Gta and jtd was.

If you won't listen to me then pm Nigel as he was willing to listen to the Issue that Paul spotted straight away.
There's people on the forum who will try and help you but there's other folk who refuse to listen and make mistakes based on arrogance or inexperience.

Again don't say I didn't warn you,this will be a costly route for those involved.

If I'm not at work till 4am again then I will talk to you about it tomorrow at the agm.

That's gone right over my head John

I'm not at the AGM.
Shame.. Next time
We shall see, I've had a spare box apart in the workshop and fitted with out issue.

But this I the fun of trying some thing new!

Exciting times

Okey dokey.

X

When you fitting it then?

Ross

Soon.
Why?

well marco il book you and joe to fit mine aswell after the trackday so i can see before and after handling.

Just wondering. John all doom and gloom, but I'm genuinely interested to see your car up and running again.

Ross

Yet, Jbt loves doom and gloom.. But if I remember correctly he is German so it's to be expected

Just kidding JBT!!

Well, that was a long old day. Left the house at 5:55am and back home by 7:55pm. Was a great day and think I will have to claim the fastest 16vt (only one there ) and the fastest viscous driven coupe too My time was only 0.1 behind Nigel's and even after some tips from Fishy Dave, I still couldn't quite get it right. Had plenty of sideways action into the molehill pretty much everytime, with me even spinning it on the corner and ending up backward in the dirt, shame I forgot to turn the camera on for this one

Will get the video up next week, but the microphone is fubar'd so it sounds horrible when playing it back on the PC.

Nigel, as per text, I hope the repairs are cheap enough for you to get everything back up and running

I hope the passengers didn't mind the slightly scruffy driving from me

Beggers your drivings getting better from the sounds of it

Thank you Nigel for your words.

What Nigel hasn't mentioned is that sadly I was driving his car when the aux belt broke. I was half way through a lap having braked at the end of the straight, changed down to 2nd, turned and started applying throttle. I heard a rattle which I thought were stones on the arch liners then no noise and christmas tree warning lights on the dash.
I am really sorry that this happened Nigel. Up to that point I had enjoyed the drive and thought a reasonable time might have been on. It had been a long time since I drove a Coupe on track, but in that short drive I was very impressed with your car Nigel. I know that it will return better than ever. Well done for getting the fastest Coupe time of the day Nigel, Begbie nearly beat it and given another couple of runs might just have made it.

I had good fun taking everyone out for passenger rides through the day, once I had set a time after lunch I was pretty happy with. Not sure I could have got below the 1 minute mark today, so was happy with 1min 02s and 3s with passengers. The Caterham was faultless throughout the day, only my tinkering with the setup made it slightly less fun (less power oversteer).

Well done to Sean for being determined to beat the time I set in his Coupe . Another good handling Coupe that was happy to wag its tail under braking.

Thanks for taking me out in the 16vt Alexis, good driving and a lot of power, really too much for this track it was just getting into its stride on the final straight. Would be up for a passenger ride on a trackday please.

Really exhausted and not writing very clearly, sleep now. Hope you all have a good night at the AGM.

Dave

Nightmare Nigel, hope it's not a sore one on the wallet

Nigel were your aux belts 3 years old?

An excellent day at Curborough. Thanks to all who helped book and organise it.

A real shame Nigel. Very sorry to hear and see this. Dave I am sure you know but it was not your fault. Doesn't make it any less upsetting though.

A bit under 3 years - they were due for replacement at the next service.

A lesson to be learned here I think - Aux belts should be replaced at 2 years or 24,000 miles, or even annually if your paranoia knows no bounds....

The real reason for me not coming down was that you can claim the fastest 16vt round Curborough

did you not have a modded pulley or one of fleas belt guards nigel?

I'm not sure that Nigel really needs any more "hindsight" ideas.

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Check that out guys.

Luke.

Nice car pictures there Luke

Thanks Luke thats a great record of the day.

And if you sequence them quick enough they make a great vidio

Great pics Luke

Cool pics Luke. That squirrel was lucky

Just a quick post to say thanks for all who organised the day!

And especially for letting me tag along in my MX5hed.

Cracking day and track was a great fun little circuit even though I did eat a tyre so a new set required for Llandow next week.

Only met a couple of people from FCCUK before but everyone was very friendly and a credit to the club!

Thanks again and hopefully see you all at another one

Jamie
(Badly driven mx5 owner)

Oh and almost forgot thanks to Dave for the passenger laps was fairly nippy