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Great video Iain. I also noted that you didn't use the windscreen wiper even when water was thrown up all over it. Does the wiper work, or is it just simpler to let the water blow off? Or wasn't it as obscuring in reality as it looked in the video? I'm not a racer so I'm ignorant of these matters.
Dalton
Dalton
Ah Dalton,
The most likely answer to that, which you are not going to get from Iain
, is that whilst operative wipers are probably mandated by the rules, maybe officialdom never actually checks that they work! Iain has probably whipped the armature and field coils out of the wiper motor to save weight. :lipsrsealed: :lol:
Actually, a good coating of Rain-X on the screen is pretty effective by itself anyway.
Edit. Sorry Iain, just my warped sense of humour. If I really thought that was the case, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I do note that the wipers are sitting in a different position later in the race, so they obviously do work!
The most likely answer to that, which you are not going to get from Iain
, is that whilst operative wipers are probably mandated by the rules, maybe officialdom never actually checks that they work! Iain has probably whipped the armature and field coils out of the wiper motor to save weight. :lipsrsealed: :lol:Actually, a good coating of Rain-X on the screen is pretty effective by itself anyway.
Edit. Sorry Iain, just my warped sense of humour. If I really thought that was the case, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I do note that the wipers are sitting in a different position later in the race, so they obviously do work!
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Guys, at that point of the race, the track was almost dry. There were still a few "rivers" running accross in places. I had stopped using my wiper, as the ignition cut out a few times earlier...... pommy cars and electrics!!
Most cars were really suffering on well used wet tryes which were hot and squishy.
On RAINEX: we also used the anti-fog rainex on the inside of the screen - it worked very well.
Most cars were really suffering on well used wet tryes which were hot and squishy.
On RAINEX: we also used the anti-fog rainex on the inside of the screen - it worked very well.
Russ,
Having been pinged at a race meeting for not having an operating windscreen wiper on my Cobra (Which has no windscreen ...I kid you not) the wiper on the GT is fully functioning. I think the angle of the camera on the screen is a bit missleading, from the drivers position it was better to let the rain roll up the screen rather than smearing the screen. A couple of places in the track had running water and as you passed through those you were basically blind ! The most notable spot was approaching the straight where speeds are quite high and there is a fair amount of lateral G on the car, a sobering experience.
Really good to see your car on the track Russ, the attitude on the car looks spot on, well done, have you solved your bearing problem ? We use the rear bearings from a 997 Carrera Cup Porsche ( I know, I know, sorry guys)
Iain
Having been pinged at a race meeting for not having an operating windscreen wiper on my Cobra (Which has no windscreen ...I kid you not) the wiper on the GT is fully functioning. I think the angle of the camera on the screen is a bit missleading, from the drivers position it was better to let the rain roll up the screen rather than smearing the screen. A couple of places in the track had running water and as you passed through those you were basically blind ! The most notable spot was approaching the straight where speeds are quite high and there is a fair amount of lateral G on the car, a sobering experience.
Really good to see your car on the track Russ, the attitude on the car looks spot on, well done, have you solved your bearing problem ? We use the rear bearings from a 997 Carrera Cup Porsche ( I know, I know, sorry guys)
Iain