Thursday 8 November 2007

Preparing a frogeye sprite.

I'm currently preparing a frogeye sprite and hope to come over from N Ireland to do one of the MCC trials in class 5. The car has been used for Irish retro rallies and sits up a bit. Is it worth finding a van diff or is a Minor one OK. The car runs a fairly torquey 1320cc engine and a Toyota gearbox. Also is the petrol tank too exposed as standard. Any advice either general or specific to a Frogeye would be much appreciated. The only trial I've done in England is the VSCC lakeland a number of years ago.
Thanks

Dermot Johnson
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  1. ren5 MSN9 November 2007 at 12:01

    dont think the toyota box would be allowed to stay in class 5 ,but best check with a official before you go any further ,it could re class you in class 7 ,

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  2. hifor2 MSN10 November 2007 at 00:09

    Hi,
     
    Should the Toyota gearbox not be suitable then I do
    have a couple of M.G. Midget standard gearboxes available which I'm sure we
    could come to some agreement over in exchange for the Toyota box.
     
    Cheers,
     
    HIFOR2.

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  3. dermotj MSN11 November 2007 at 19:24

    Thanks for the offer but fortunatly I've got a couple of BMC gearboxes.

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  4. Michael Leete11 November 2007 at 20:06

    You can give class 0 a try as the car is on an MCC event - Michael

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  5. ren5 MSN14 November 2007 at 15:09

    im confused i changed the ratios in my class o pug and was told because of this it was no longer eligable for this class and was moved in to class 1 ,

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  6. Michael Leete14 November 2007 at 15:13

    Adrian - My understanding is that organisers accept cars into class 0 as a matter of discretion. I feel certain that as a newcomer Dermot's car would be accepted. - Michael

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  7. dermotj MSN15 November 2007 at 20:12

    Class 0 sounds like the way to go. This evening I went up to watch the first special stage of Rally Ireland. There were over 10000 people there but I got chatting to a couple of marshals who turned out to be Mike and Verdun from the Falcon M.C. Having discovered that they did trials I told them about wanting to do an MCC trial and was immediatly asked "are you the chap from Ireland who's preparing a frogeye for trials? Such is the power of Classicalgas. I got lots of tips about preparing the car and it was really nice to meet both of them.
    Such a small world.

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  8. Michael Leete16 November 2007 at 05:03

    Wow Dermot what a coincidence - As he probably told you Verdun has been doing Class 0 for a while. - Michael

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