Damn you neighbor Sarunas!!!
One beautiful morning had regular small talk with my neighbor Sarunas, but this time he mentioned about strange race, so called "F-race 200" https://www.f-race200.lt
Rules sound pretty crazy, cheap car 200 euros, small contacts with opponents are regular thing, everybody goes together as in real race, it is team race, meaning 3 drivers need to share the car and switch, and most interesting at least one must be a girl... And if you win you get main price of 500 euros and give/pass your car to organizers, this way budget is kept at low areas, therefore competition is organized.
Their "moto" sounds like "Better be racer one day than watcher all your life". All mentioned things made me very interested.
Thought good chance to get my hands on another project. Good thing that there are more crazy people like my friend Mindaugas, which agreed to be my partner and buy a car and make it ready for this race. Cheers Mindaugas :)
So we looked into cheap cars and founds this ford focus:
Initial price was exactly 200, so we were on the target.
It had just one issue to be kind off running car, that is ignition coil. Which seemed to be the case cause after changing that one, engine issue seemed gone. Thanks to Sarunas for the old spark plugs from his kit car with almost identical engine. previous spark plugs were not suitable for this engine.
Next thing was to make this cur reliable enough to cope with high revs and engine max outputs. Mindaugas changed coolant, added some oil and made other small inspections.
Car feels fine after small tweaks so we are happy and ready to get into final stages of preparation to the race, which is in few days :)
Things we want to do is to put engine cover underneath the engine, and introduce metal brace to protect the radiator in the front collision scenario. Also remove rear exhaust silencer cause it sits quite low and car be hit after jumps. Yes, JUMPS haha. Usually circuit is partly asphalt partly dirt, kind of autocross style, so small jumps are regular thing.
Rules sound pretty crazy, cheap car 200 euros, small contacts with opponents are regular thing, everybody goes together as in real race, it is team race, meaning 3 drivers need to share the car and switch, and most interesting at least one must be a girl... And if you win you get main price of 500 euros and give/pass your car to organizers, this way budget is kept at low areas, therefore competition is organized.
Their "moto" sounds like "Better be racer one day than watcher all your life". All mentioned things made me very interested.
Thought good chance to get my hands on another project. Good thing that there are more crazy people like my friend Mindaugas, which agreed to be my partner and buy a car and make it ready for this race. Cheers Mindaugas :)
So we looked into cheap cars and founds this ford focus:
It had just one issue to be kind off running car, that is ignition coil. Which seemed to be the case cause after changing that one, engine issue seemed gone. Thanks to Sarunas for the old spark plugs from his kit car with almost identical engine. previous spark plugs were not suitable for this engine.
Next thing was to make this cur reliable enough to cope with high revs and engine max outputs. Mindaugas changed coolant, added some oil and made other small inspections.
Car feels fine after small tweaks so we are happy and ready to get into final stages of preparation to the race, which is in few days :)
Things we want to do is to put engine cover underneath the engine, and introduce metal brace to protect the radiator in the front collision scenario. Also remove rear exhaust silencer cause it sits quite low and car be hit after jumps. Yes, JUMPS haha. Usually circuit is partly asphalt partly dirt, kind of autocross style, so small jumps are regular thing.
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