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TBH you can remove the heater matrix from a GTD as the car always seems to get warm without the need for extra heating! That big windscreen is great for solar energy capture! And if you track the car you will gain performance from the weight loss. When I have used the heater it seemed to work...

This is interesting! The initial drawing shown is the standard GTD set up and has worked fine on my car for 25 years with just one tweak! I have two pipes from the expansion tank to the same radiator pipe, one from the bottom of the expansion tank and one to the top of the expansion tank...

When the GTD 40 car club used to take part in competition events here in UK this was still a common site as with all competition vehicles sods law states that nothing will go wrong until either the night before the event as you are loading up or something will break between practice/qualy and...

Hi Paul This sounds like a fun challenge! Is it open to non members?

Hi Howard, yup I remember those days! There was one day at the GTD factory track day at Goodwood back in about 92 or 93 when Simon Osborne was in the Maclaren M8 replica behind me in my 40 behind Roy Smart in his 40 behind Brian Pepper in one of his 40's. My car was very standard then no...

I run a Renault UN1 gearbox, normal orientation. I did make some custom gearbox mounts so that it was mounted on poly bushes and not the normal rubber doughnuts. The purpose here was to reduce gearbox movement which can wiggle the gear stick as I have the Southern GT solid linkage set up and...

I say Howard old bean, that's a tough description on handling for a non upgraded GTD that you make above! :-) Most compared it to the earlier 911 P cars in terms of breaking away at the rear. Certainly you had to treat the car with respect and pick your moments with care! However in their hey...

Just re read your initial post. Have you allowed for the car rolling in the corners or just worked on simple bump and droop of the wheel while the chassis stays flat? If you haven't allowed for car roll in your calculations above then you may find that if you are precise with simple bump or...

In the UK the standard solution to this issue was to lower the suspension arm mounting point on the upright. Just drill a couple of new holes (make a little jig up to ensure consistency) and away you go. The new holes normally went as low as you could get say about 30 to 35 mm lower. You can...

Chop the top spline off and weld on a removable steering wheel lug so you can have a removable steering wheel. Really helps getting in and out of the car and will solve your current problem as well.

Just make sure you mount it the right way up and vertically!

The BBC have been running a number of Waterloo programs recently, and very good ones too! Waterloo fundamentally changed the course of European history and was a very significant event. I don't know much on the subject but the documentaries doing the rounds are quite enlightening. Well...

I would strongly recommend the Southern GT rear end from Mick as now your car is stripped down it will never be this simple to do again plus the benefits are huge in road handling as well for the odd track day. If you haven't driven GTD handling and Southern GT handling to compare it may be...

Did you check the publishing date of the article? April 1, 2015

I'd ship it if it were my decision as all the design work has been done for you and is proven to be very good. You will probably save on labour costs versus the shipping costs as Southern GT are set up to produce this stuff with jigs and each piece of frame already sitting on a shelf.

Southern GT do a chassis conversion for GTD at the rear which is well worth having. It will solve the issues above and is cost effective for the improvements in handling and looks.

Run slicks Glenn. Tyres are often the cheapest form of improved lap times. It will take whole seconds off your lap times not just fractions. That picture of Tammy reminds me of how William used to be when we raced the Mazda. He would spend a whole day under a coat playing on his DS. Now...

If F1 wasn't televised and some promoter approached the TV companies to pitch F1 as a sports package worth international coverage it would get laughed out of the room right now. Its not a spectacle at all. Only reason why it stays on air is that everyone has way too much money poured into it...

Glickenhaus SCG003 revealed | PistonHeads looks great!

Pam Ayres is a national treasure!