Spa 2009, 29th and 30th June with Gold Track
If you follow this forum you may already have seen my thread on the chassis surgery I put my GTD through earlier this year. The car had been sent down to Southern GT to have the rear 3 ft chopped off and a Southern GT rear end welded on. The purpose of this exercise was to lower the engine and to get improved rear suspension geometry. The planned test date was at the end of May at Silverstone but it never happened due to work commitments and also other car issues that I chose to resolve at the same time lengthening the whole project. However the car was ready on the 27th June and early on Sunday 28th June Steve and I headed off to Spa. This was to be the shakedown and test of the works just completed so a bit of a jump into the unknown considering I had never been to Spa before.
We met up with Glenn, Tammy and William on the M25 near Clacket Lane services and then went in convoy on to Dover for the ferry. This was the first time both Glenn and I had taken our trucks overseas so we were both happy that when we went on the weighbridge we were under the 7500 kg limit. It was rather surprising how much ancillary stuff we had brought and how the weight all added up ever so quickly. It worked out that I had brought about 600 kg of spares, tools and camping gear!
(giving the car a pre event wash and scrub up, loading the truck with lots of gear)
If you follow this forum you may already have seen my thread on the chassis surgery I put my GTD through earlier this year. The car had been sent down to Southern GT to have the rear 3 ft chopped off and a Southern GT rear end welded on. The purpose of this exercise was to lower the engine and to get improved rear suspension geometry. The planned test date was at the end of May at Silverstone but it never happened due to work commitments and also other car issues that I chose to resolve at the same time lengthening the whole project. However the car was ready on the 27th June and early on Sunday 28th June Steve and I headed off to Spa. This was to be the shakedown and test of the works just completed so a bit of a jump into the unknown considering I had never been to Spa before.
We met up with Glenn, Tammy and William on the M25 near Clacket Lane services and then went in convoy on to Dover for the ferry. This was the first time both Glenn and I had taken our trucks overseas so we were both happy that when we went on the weighbridge we were under the 7500 kg limit. It was rather surprising how much ancillary stuff we had brought and how the weight all added up ever so quickly. It worked out that I had brought about 600 kg of spares, tools and camping gear!
(giving the car a pre event wash and scrub up, loading the truck with lots of gear)