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Ditto comments above, a very enjoyable day out and very much looking forward to seeing the results when released. A lot of effort was taken to get it right so thanks again to those who made it happen.

Good news, have managed to rearrange and also to get another 40 to come with me so please put me and Charles on the list again.

Disappointed to say that at the moment I too will be unable to get there although trying to find a work around to make it so. Sorry Paul.

I have built both a Dax Cobra and a GTD 40 albeit a long time ago for both. Whilst ok at mechanics I do not consider myself a body worker of any skill. The Cobra is a simpler body as less separate parts to join up compared to the 40 and the 40 doors are more complicated to align. However from...

I remember hearing that the late Tony Marsh, a farmer in Hampshire, used his 600 bhp GTD Mk2 to take vegetables the local market once! The oddest use of my car was as a nappy changing table for my daughter when she needed a change at Goodwood! Just had to make sure she didn't roll onto the...

If not already noted please can you add my name to the list, thanks. Only caveat is that I am due to have the car with Mick Sollis for a short period so hopefully the two won't clash. Will be coming via trailer. Malcolm MacAdam

For F1 and Indycar you can't see the drivers driving from external coverage of the car so enclosing the cockpit will reduce the risk for the drivers. All the recent deaths have been from impacts to the helmet. Not one had a cause of death stated as internal injuries. Maybe that will be the...

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...