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So last weekend was a busy one, with the help of some good friends we were able to transform the golf in just 3 days! i'll let the pics do the talking, there is also a timelapse video of the respray and refitting at the end of this post! rolled it into work, setup a bay and removed the whole front end and bumper to spray that seperatly keying the paint, removing rust and started setting up the makeshift spray booth booth done, windows masked, repaired patches primered... its go time! in the meantime, tyres have been fitted! done, bump strips going on... ditched those crappy clips for some sikaflex, looks so much better.... yeah i still need to sort that arch, thats a job for another day being assembled Ta Da! and its party trick! and here is the video it still need a lot of flatting and polishing, the bonnet is all i have done so far i've made a couple of trick bits for it such as a magnetic front numberplate and 'quick release' front bumper which i can put pics up of if anyone is interested i just need to sort my front arches/tyres/fitment now as its catching the arches bad, i can hardly steer! but i'll get it sorted as i want to go a touch lower on the front... because i can!

so we had a nice crash at British GT last bank holiday Monday, i'll let the pics do the talking... but we had it back out on track on the friday

been doing some more welding on the sills, just need to get some white underseal heres the new wheel colour too! I only have two of them sprayed up atm its amazing how much paint was on them, this is after being sand blasted

This weekend was the 2nd weekend of the Ginetta Supercup. It was an amazing weekends racing with Tom finishing 1st in the last race, after a mad start of pushing his car backwards up the grid and into the pit lane and swapping it onto the slick tyres, then starting from the pit lane heres the coverage from the race, its a good watch! http://youtu.be/mgLE1bWIjUA the grid Tom on the podium again and heres a quick one of Tom Oliphant and Rick Parfitt Jnr's GT4 car... this was previously 'The Player' car

So here is the 2014 line up we have two G55's in the Ginetta GT4 supercup which runs on the same weekends as the BTCC we have two G55's in the British GT GT4 championship and two G40's in the GT5 challenge plus a customers G50 trackday car heres the full workshop, most of the cars are still awaiting their colour schemes for this season At the track this season im running Tom Oliphant in the Supercup and Tom Oliphant and Rick Parfitt Jnr in the GT4 championship, should be a good year heres Toms supercup car and the two G40s at a test day it was the first round of Supercup last weekend at Brands Hatch Jamie Orton and Tom waiting in the assembly area Tom on the podium, he finished 2nd in the final race of the weekend! and is currently 3rd in the overall championship

heres an update! got rid of the harnesses for some standard seat belts, all nice and standard in side now other than the addition of a wooden Nardi steering wheel uprated the clutch with the help of Mr Bodgemonkey, its good for around 350hp now so has stopped the slippage Got myself some new wheels, the main idea was to allow me to use a wider tyre for some more grip! however as much as i like them they are maybe a bit too flashy for the sleeper look it had going on so i may swap them out for some banded steels these are 14x7 Basset racing steels, which are what are used on Nascars

Dont know exactly but it should be in the 200-250 region

Heres both of our supercup cars on the shakedown day at Blyton park Tom Oliphant in the black one and Jamie Orton in the white one We then did 3 days 'hot weather testing' in Portimao, Portugal which was amazing! we ran some extra sensors and pots on Jamies car to record data, damper pots and tyre temperature sensors mainly, all of which i had to make little mounts and brackets for awesome track too not many tracks have a swimming pool! then this week we did some testing at Brands Hatch, the weather was quite the opposite! at the end of the 2nd day Tom stuck it in the gravel! brilliant, anyone need some gravel? oh well, its all part of testing, some times you get it right, some times you dont, he was putting in some very quick times beforehand and our fancy new car covers, batmobile?

it does look sexy! I cant actually find the genuine pro version anywhere, i would have thought it would be more than

yeah i did have a quick read of your thread i know its a clone but i was looking at one like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271348781151?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 i believe it already comes with the better driveshafts and all the other goodies other than the belt tensioner

haha yeah i love it, looking for some original volvo wheel trims at the moment! already shown up a couple of cars with it, just have to be careful in the wet as its got a locked diff it gets loads of attention too, just for being a clean looking classic car

i never got round to replying after i first read this! but thanks very much! i've had a go with a friends MST chassis and decided i'd like to switch to a CS chassis and start fine tuning my setup and skills from there, as to be honest this TC3 is pretty knackered!

So i've gone to Radshape a couple of times now for some drifting fun with my TC3, but it really has shown me how dated that chassis is, although it does work ok so im wanting to get a budget countersteer chassis, the 3racing Sakura seems to be the best chassis for the money? i've been reading a few threads and they seem to be good chassis with a few upgrades, so what bits would i be looking at upgrading? i've also seen there are clones about, are they good quality? wheres the best place to get them from? any info on them is much appreciated!

Dont worry, i still have the Golf! heres my new toy though 1985 Volvo 360, its modified to drift and is running slightly more power than standard i picked it up for

Does anyone know if a countersteer setup exists for a TC3 or TC4 chassis? its shaft drive so i would need different ratio diff gears. I've started going to Radshape RC in Birmingham, its really fun but everyone else is running newer cars with countersteer setups... i can drive around it fine, however my line and my speed is waaaay different so i end up getting held up/holding people up as the track is usually pretty busy! if there is none available, what could i do to my car to help it drift the tighter corners and just generally drift a bit slower?