3/4 Septemeber Barkston [Archive] - 16v Mini Club Forums

picKup

30-08-2011, 08:52 PM

Hi Guys.

So who is coming this weekend??

We are all planning on camping at woodland waters, (the need for a nice shower is to great!). If anyone else is going to camp here let me know and I will give them a call and get us all booked on.

Oh and I will get a round in at the bar on Friday night as it will be my Birthday!

Cheers

Mike

Mark D

30-08-2011, 08:58 PM

Andy_S

31-08-2011, 06:31 AM

Happy Birthday for Friday Mike. :D

The head is now off the General but the queer way that the head gasket has failed suggests that the head's distorted. I'm taking it to work today so that it can be checked so fingers crossed that it's OK.

I'm still hoping to get there for Sunday.

Smurfy

31-08-2011, 03:30 PM

We have sent off our entries but haven't had any confirmation yet.

Andy_S

31-08-2011, 03:50 PM

We have sent off our entries but haven't had any confirmation yet.

Hey Phil, you don't get a 'formal' confirmtion, but I've seen both you & your dad listed on the accepted entries on the RAFMSA website.

Inspection of my cylinder head suggests that it's totally flat so if I get my finger out it's entirely do-able to have the wee fella running for Sunday.

Smurfy

31-08-2011, 04:31 PM

Richard

31-08-2011, 06:32 PM

Thanks, we asumed that was the case but we can't get on the forum yet until our membership is sorted out.
I think we are probably heading over Saturday morning and stopping at Barkston overnight. I will phone dad later to check.

Good news on the cylinder head Andy, see you all at the weekend.

Phil, if you are camping at Barkston overnight its prob best if you pm Bill2b before hand as they need to know numbers for security plus he will prob tell you what time the crash gate is open.
We are stopping Fri & Sat at Woodland Waters - we should have got a season ticket for that place this year. ;)

Good to know you have a flat head Andy, now just take a sicky/work from home/holiday on Friday to fix the General and come out to play all weekend :rolleyes:

Paul, are you dropping in on Sunday to wear those new Avon's out?

R

PaulW

31-08-2011, 07:16 PM

Paul, are you dropping in on Sunday to wear those new Avon's out?

R

I was going to come if Laurence was working but she's off so we are going to spend a rare day together. Catching up with my lad as well on Sunday night i hope.

Have a cracking weekend guys lets see what next year brings....it has to be better than this year:D

Paul

Smurfy

31-08-2011, 07:28 PM

Phil, if you are camping at Barkston overnight its prob best if you pm Bill2b before hand as they need to know numbers for security plus he will prob tell you what time the crash gate is open.
We are stopping Fri & Sat at Woodland Waters - we should have got a season ticket for that place this year. ;)

Is there anything on the forum about food on Saturday night at Barkston, that was the reason we were staying at Barkston really. The last e-mail we had they were not sure if it would go ahead.

If not, we will probabably book into Woodland Waters.

I'll drop Bill a PM.

Richard

01-09-2011, 06:24 PM

Is there anything on the forum about food on Saturday night at Barkston, that was the reason we were staying at Barkston really. The last e-mail we had they were not sure if it would go ahead.

If not, we will probabably book into Woodland Waters.

The BBQ is now back on
copied from the RAFMSA forum-

FOOD ARRANGEMENTS

Many apologies for the delay in confirming the food arrangements. As originally advertised on the entry forms there will be a Hog Roast for the evening. Food will be available from 1830 to 1930 a will consist of Pork, apple sauce, some salad and potatoes.

Please bring along something to drink (easier than me trying to cater for a wide variety of tastes), something to sit on (unless you like a cold tarmac floor) and something to eat if you are a vegetarian (sorry, didn't quite manage to get anything sorted at this late stage).

Andy_S

01-09-2011, 06:48 PM

Good to know you have a flat head Andy, now just take a sicky/work from home/holiday on Friday to fix the General and come out to play all weekend :rolleyes:

The flat head is good, though it's difficult to keep a hat on.

No sicky/holiday on Friday & the car deffo won't be back together before Saturday cos I've not had much chance during the week.

apbellamy

01-09-2011, 07:37 PM

Wanted to come to this, but the upside down skip's engine is currently on my bench :-(

bill2b

01-09-2011, 08:24 PM

I was going to come if Laurence was working but she's off so we are going to spend a rare day together. Catching up with my lad as well on Sunday night i hope.

Have a cracking weekend guys lets see what next year brings....it has to be better than this year:D

Paul

Pain in the A"""e as usual Paul. I have just printed off my lists with you on it
:rolleyes:
Surely Laurence and your lad would like a day at Barkston?

I will be arriving about 6 ish on Friday and I will leave my mobile number at the gate.
Cheers
Bill

Hayling mini

01-09-2011, 08:37 PM

I would love to have done this, but I have nothing to drive:(

bill2b

01-09-2011, 09:02 PM

I would love to have done this, but I have nothing to drive:(

Whats your Daily Driver?

Can't be any slower than Paul W
:D:D:D:D

Hayling mini

02-09-2011, 09:17 PM

Whats your Daily Driver?

Can't be any slower than Paul W
:D:D:D:D

LOL, next time I will have 2 cars:)

Mark D

03-09-2011, 10:22 AM

How's it going over there guys, Geoff and I at Anglesey are getting soaking wet and blown away

Smurfy

03-09-2011, 01:58 PM

Sunny here at the minute. Richard is JUST ahead of mike at the mo. Ours was running well until now. Just had a driveshaft fail.

Mark D

03-09-2011, 02:43 PM

Oh shit, is it repairable

picKup

03-09-2011, 02:52 PM

Event 1 anti clockwise chicane on final straight dad beat me by 3 tenths.
event 2 same but without final chicane I beat dad by 3 tenths.
event 3 small circuit with Andy's favorite hairpin.. time to go and play!

Mark D

03-09-2011, 03:12 PM

We've given up over here, Kurt only went out in practice and Geoff only did one timed run

Andy_S

03-09-2011, 03:22 PM

Sunny here at the minute. Richard is JUST ahead of mike at the mo. Ours was running well until now. Just had a driveshaft fail.

Fail as in snap? Or is it repairable?

Smurfy

03-09-2011, 03:29 PM

Its snapped. Got 6 runs each and diff mods seem to have done the trick. Think we will have to get a set of shafts machined rather than cut and weld. Had a good day tho.

Smurfy

03-09-2011, 03:30 PM

Are you heading over tomorrow Andy?

Andy_S

03-09-2011, 04:13 PM

Its snapped. Got 6 runs each and diff mods seem to have done the trick. Think we will have to get a set of shafts machined rather than cut and weld. Had a good day tho.

Am glad that the diff mod works but total bummer about the driveshaft. :(

Are you heading over tomorrow Andy?

Dunno, the General is back together & fired up so he seems happy but I'm now tinkering with the trailer cos a couple of the tyres have very uneven wear.

Looks like I'll have to fit my spare Mini alloys with the Bridgestone pontenzas onto the trailer.

........... totally trivial stuff compared to a snapped driveshaft.

Andy_S

03-09-2011, 04:16 PM

We've given up over here, Kurt only went out in practice and Geoff only did one timed run

Is better weather forecast for tomorrow?

spNOam

03-09-2011, 04:34 PM

Marginally :) Worth going just for Marks homemade soup :)

Andy_S

03-09-2011, 05:03 PM

I've decided that I'm not risking coming down for Sunday as I'm concerned about the trailer & have run out of tinkering time. There's got to be an underlying reason why the rear O/S tyre has worn in such a odd way & I don't fancy doing 300miles hoping for the best.

I'll race at Harewood cos that's just down the road but methinks that a proper trailer is going to have to go on the shopping list cos I keep having problems.

...... on the bright side at least I don't have to get up at 5am tomorrow. ;)

picKup

03-09-2011, 08:15 PM

Event 3 went to dad by another 3 tenths!
Lets see what tomorrow bring!

big_jim

04-09-2011, 11:50 AM

Anyone know how I can get in to come watch?? All the gates are down.

Jim

picKup

04-09-2011, 04:27 PM

Andy_S

04-09-2011, 05:29 PM

It was WET this morning! So we had the cheating Wets on.

Dad managed to get the fastest time of all cars for event 1! But the Gedi did still have slicks on!

Nice one Richard ............ although racing wets should be banned ;)

But I beat him in event 2 this afternoon in the dry.

All in all a good weekend. Shame the rest of you lot could not make it!

Nice work Mike :cool:, having beaten your Dad twice out of five races you should twist his arm to let you have a joint drive at Harewood. :)

picKup

04-09-2011, 05:57 PM

It is tempting, especially as I now have a set of MSA spec overalls.
But I have not got the Race licence yet, and I can not be bothered to get one this year! Maybe next year......

Richard

04-09-2011, 07:24 PM

Nice one Richard ............ although racing wets should be banned ;)

Nice work Mike :cool:, having beaten your Dad twice out of five races you should twist his arm to let you have a joint drive at Harewood. :)

I love my wets :)

Mike certainly gave me some competition although its kinda embarrassing being beaten by your own car so he is definately not going to Harewood. Marie recons I am the Button of the team whilst Mike is the Hamilton - especially after his lecture from Bill for missing a red flag - which turned out to be totally unfounded - thanks Bill for apologizing to him yourself.

The poor little car had a busy weekend with 30+ runs yesterday (Mike kept getting re-runs) and 22 today, The alternator was getting a bit tired again so had to have top ups from the van but apart from that it ran faultlessly.
A good weekend although its a shame the Smurfmobile self destructed, Steve was quite happy to get 6 runs in and with delevolopment its going to be quite a machine :)

Richard

04-09-2011, 07:29 PM

ps
The hog roast and evening driving tests were fantastic, shame your trailer couldn't make it Andy. Get a BJ, you know you want too.
R

Richard

04-09-2011, 07:34 PM

How the f**k is BJ swearing???????????

steve s

04-09-2011, 07:39 PM

It was WET this morning! So we had the cheating Wets on.

Dad managed to get the fastest time of all cars for event 1! But the Gedi did still have slicks on!

But I beat him in event 2 this afternoon in the dry.

All in all a good weekend. Shame the rest of you lot could not make it!

Wets or not it's quite an achievement to come ahead of the field, your car is a credit to you, to take all that stick and perform like it dose, good to see you and mike get the max out of the car with often only a few tenths either way :) Keep on pushing, Had a great day saturday, It won't be long before we are out again, Definitely been bit buy the bug, Steve.

Andy_S

04-09-2011, 07:51 PM

Marie recons I am the Button of the team whilst Mike is the Hamilton - especially after his lecture from Bill for missing a red flag - which turned out to be totally unfounded - thanks Bill for apologizing to him yourself.

Ooh, if we're all being F1 drivers can I be Mansell?

Wets or not it's quite an achievement to come ahead of the field, your car is a credit to you.

I'll second that. Built once & built right, it puts my ever breaking engine to shame :(

Had a great day saturday, It won't be long before we are out again, Definitely been bit buy the bug, Steve.

Cool :cool:

......... and yes I really want a Brian James, but a BJ would do if Mrs S won't let me have a new trailer.

bill2b

04-09-2011, 10:19 PM

I love my wets :)
Marie recons I am the Button of the team whilst Mike is the Hamilton - especially after his lecture from Bill for missing a red flag - which turned out to be totally unfounded - thanks Bill for apologizing to him yourself.

:)

No problem Richard
I was given the Miss interpreted information from my deputy after I got in from my run so I had a chat with Mike, After further enquiries it was apparent that the "Red Flag" was not actually being displayed so Mike had not missed anything, Hense the apology. :D

Glad you had a good time shame some of the others could not make it.

Next time though you can have your own section of airfield to warm up your tyres, but I bet you will still not get anywhere near Simons Jedi
Richard 57.097
Mike 56.155 He he,
Simon (with his warmed up tyres) 45.733
He now holds the lap record on all our circuits
Any Minis up to the challenge?

One point to note we did have our share of Mini Issues today as usual but this time it came from our own RAFMSA mini man who managed to go AWO and hit numerous posts on most of his runs and run out of petrol despite the fact his fastest time was 1.10.489 (ranked 33 out of 36) :-D:-D:-D

Bloody Minis

:beer::beer::beer:;)

big_jim

04-09-2011, 11:44 PM

Was good to be able to come have a chat today guys, would love to give it a go next time when the mini is finished....

Thanks again for the warm welcome Richard and Mike.

Jim

Mark D

05-09-2011, 12:48 AM

Bloody Minis

You love us really!!!

bill2b

05-09-2011, 09:03 AM

You love us really!!!

Yes but don't tell anybody.

Ps remember there is 2 more events left this year, oct 9 and 5 nov, sure we can fit some more in
:D:D

PaulW

05-09-2011, 12:27 PM

Yes but don't tell anybody.

Ps remember there is 2 more events left this year, oct 9 and 5 nov, sure we can fit some more in
:D:D

Never know i might make one of these;)

Paul

Hayling mini

05-09-2011, 12:42 PM

I would like to do these, maybe both my Mini's will be ready by then & hopefully Jimbo will pass his test on the 17th:)

picKup

05-09-2011, 12:51 PM

I would like to do these, maybe both my Mini's will be ready by then & hopefully Jimbo will pass his test on the 17th:)

How do you plan on getting both mini's here??

Time for a new trailer??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-car-van-transporter-trailer-3000-kg-2006-galvanized-/180717437085?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a1399409d
or van??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-ISUZU-TROOPER-NQR-7-5t-2-CAR-TRANSPORTER-4751cc-/360381461465?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item53e868b3d9

Hayling mini

05-09-2011, 02:31 PM

How do you plan on getting both mini's here??

Time for a new trailer??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-car-van-transporter-trailer-3000-kg-2006-galvanized-/180717437085?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a1399409d
or van??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-ISUZU-TROOPER-NQR-7-5t-2-CAR-TRANSPORTER-4751cc-/360381461465?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item53e868b3d9

I will convince Vic or Tony they needs to tow one & I will tow the other:)