Our entry is in for the Jack Neal Stages at Blyton Park, an old airfield near Scunthorpe. We'll be out in the Metro for this one, the Sierra Cossie being sold on before it got a run out.
This is the first outing this year and we'll be looking to finish as always... anything else is a bonus! The car was reliable last time out, despite me parking it in a tyre wall, so fingers crossed and wood touched that we'll make it to the end without any issues.
We'll be down to HT Auto's tomorrow for it's MOT and we'll be giving it a once over before we're out. We'll also be giving a once over before the rally tightening anything that needs tightening and oiling anything that needs tightening as well as touching up the paintwork to ensure it's shiny and clean before we go out. We'll also be fitting window film and mud flaps, both of which and mandatory from this season.
Friday 6 May 2011
Monday 7 February 2011
HT to Marbella...
Things are a bit quiet on the stage rallying front at the moment as the season is still to really kick off. However, during the lull Clive, Matt, Stu and Ant are taking part in the Marbella Banger Rally this March in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
They will be driving from Leeds to Marbella in a Citroen ZX complete with Yellow Helicopter painted on the side.
Click on the link above for more information!
They will be driving from Leeds to Marbella in a Citroen ZX complete with Yellow Helicopter painted on the side.
Click on the link above for more information!
Sunday 20 June 2010
New Sponsor...
Red Pig Rally are pleased to introduce Y Homes Wetherby as one of our new sponsors for 2010.
Y Homes are the affordable Estate Agents providing a comprehensive quality service with traditional values enabling you to but and sell properties in Wetherby and the surrounding area.
Check them out at www.yorkshirehomes.co.uk.
I'll also take this chance to remind you of our other key sponsor: HT Auto's Leeds. HT Auto's offer a friendly, competitive service throughtout the Leeds area including MOT's, servicing and repairs, engine management, fault diagnostics, auto electrical work, tyres and balancing and bodywork repairs. www.htautosleeds.co.uk
Y Homes are the affordable Estate Agents providing a comprehensive quality service with traditional values enabling you to but and sell properties in Wetherby and the surrounding area.
Check them out at www.yorkshirehomes.co.uk.
I'll also take this chance to remind you of our other key sponsor: HT Auto's Leeds. HT Auto's offer a friendly, competitive service throughtout the Leeds area including MOT's, servicing and repairs, engine management, fault diagnostics, auto electrical work, tyres and balancing and bodywork repairs. www.htautosleeds.co.uk
The end of the Escort...
Thinks have been quiet on the competing front but in the background there have been big changes.
The largest change saw the selling of the Mk2 Escort. The mounting cost of parts and the frustration of having to search high and low for any spare finally drove Clive to part with the beloved Escort, but fear not! It has already been replaced! After looking at several cars he eventually ended up with a Sierra Cosworth. Although currently in tarmac spec, this is a step up in performance from the Escort and will hopefully allow us to be more competetive. The car is presently being given a once over and having some changes made to it as well as general tarting up and hopefully we'll have it our later in the year.
The Metro engine re-build is finally completed and we're looking to get it out and the earliest opportunity... the problem is the lack of rallys at this time of the year! The car isn't really suitable for rougher rallies and the only tarmac ones this time if year tend to be larger events - not really what we want to give the car a run out!
The largest change saw the selling of the Mk2 Escort. The mounting cost of parts and the frustration of having to search high and low for any spare finally drove Clive to part with the beloved Escort, but fear not! It has already been replaced! After looking at several cars he eventually ended up with a Sierra Cosworth. Although currently in tarmac spec, this is a step up in performance from the Escort and will hopefully allow us to be more competetive. The car is presently being given a once over and having some changes made to it as well as general tarting up and hopefully we'll have it our later in the year.
The Metro engine re-build is finally completed and we're looking to get it out and the earliest opportunity... the problem is the lack of rallys at this time of the year! The car isn't really suitable for rougher rallies and the only tarmac ones this time if year tend to be larger events - not really what we want to give the car a run out!
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Update - October 2009
Firstly, the metro! Unfortunately this is still in bits round at HT Auto's! This is due to several different reason - delays in me being able to source parts (unfortunately I'm only able to get out at weekends due to work!), parts being delivered wrong (the car's engine is seemingly one suprise after another with nothing seeming to be as standard!), focus on the Escort... Looking at the overall cost of repairing the engine and the limite number of events left this year it unfortunately looks like my season could be over from a driving point of view. I'm now looking to 2010 and the Jack Frost Stages at Croft in January.
The Escort is looking pretty good now and we're looking to get it taxed at the end of the month so we can have a couple of run outs in the evenings before the the rally. This is mainly to put some milage on the new gearbox and give the car a shakedown as well as to allow me to get some practice in reading maps at night as it's been almost a year since I last did a rally in the dark or with maps!
The Escort is looking pretty good now and we're looking to get it taxed at the end of the month so we can have a couple of run outs in the evenings before the the rally. This is mainly to put some milage on the new gearbox and give the car a shakedown as well as to allow me to get some practice in reading maps at night as it's been almost a year since I last did a rally in the dark or with maps!
Saturday 26 September 2009
Update - September 2009
Things have been quietly moving forward for RPR in the background as we prepare for the run into the year end.
The Metro has been in limbo whilst parts have been acquired and the crank has been sorted out, but hopefully it will be back in one piece by the end of the week. Things are still up in the air with regards to what event(s) I'll be doing later in the year with The Rockingham Stages in December looking like the favourite and it will give us an end of season event that will hopefully allow us to get the full team out as well as being able to us the facilities to offer hospitality to our sponsers.
The Trailer has new base boards fitted and has had a lick of paint and new arches fitted and is looking very tidy indeed.
Finally the Escort... Clive has done a fair bit of work since the Armstrong Massey including removing the cylinder head for a check up and fitting a straight cut gearbox that seems to have given the car a new lease of life. Entry is now in for the Premier Stages Rally in Sherwood Forest at the back end of November.
The Metro has been in limbo whilst parts have been acquired and the crank has been sorted out, but hopefully it will be back in one piece by the end of the week. Things are still up in the air with regards to what event(s) I'll be doing later in the year with The Rockingham Stages in December looking like the favourite and it will give us an end of season event that will hopefully allow us to get the full team out as well as being able to us the facilities to offer hospitality to our sponsers.
The Trailer has new base boards fitted and has had a lick of paint and new arches fitted and is looking very tidy indeed.
Finally the Escort... Clive has done a fair bit of work since the Armstrong Massey including removing the cylinder head for a check up and fitting a straight cut gearbox that seems to have given the car a new lease of life. Entry is now in for the Premier Stages Rally in Sherwood Forest at the back end of November.
Saturday 15 August 2009
Metro Post Centenary Stages
After the early ending at the Centenary Stages we dropped the car off at HT Auto's so we could do a strip down and find out what was wrong.
When I got round there on Tuesday evening the engine was already out of the car and ready for us to get to work. We got the clutch out and opened up the bottom end and eventually we discovered the problem – the crankshaft big end bearing (apparently) was knackered and this
had caused some scoring on the crankshaft itself. In addition the bolts that held the endplate where the timing gear is seated had worked loose and this was what we believe was causing the noise.
The cure to this has been a reground crankshaft and bearings and new timing gear and hopefully we’ll be able to get the engine back together and get some miles on it within the next few weeks.
Other upcoming tasks include looking at the wings and cutting
some out to give us more room, fixing the petrol leak, welding some new plates underneath the car where the body is looking a bit dodgy, fitting the fly off handbrake and push button start and replacing the CV boot that was destroyed when we hit the pothole. I’ll also need to replace one of the wheels as it was also damaged by the impact with the pothole.
When I got round there on Tuesday evening the engine was already out of the car and ready for us to get to work. We got the clutch out and opened up the bottom end and eventually we discovered the problem – the crankshaft big end bearing (apparently) was knackered and this
had caused some scoring on the crankshaft itself. In addition the bolts that held the endplate where the timing gear is seated had worked loose and this was what we believe was causing the noise.The cure to this has been a reground crankshaft and bearings and new timing gear and hopefully we’ll be able to get the engine back together and get some miles on it within the next few weeks.
Other upcoming tasks include looking at the wings and cutting
some out to give us more room, fixing the petrol leak, welding some new plates underneath the car where the body is looking a bit dodgy, fitting the fly off handbrake and push button start and replacing the CV boot that was destroyed when we hit the pothole. I’ll also need to replace one of the wheels as it was also damaged by the impact with the pothole.
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