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by **Ric** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:30 am

If anyone happens to be driving past Benalla/Winton this Sunday, drop in to Winton raceway and say hi. I'll be there in the MGA, and my dad is driving the Liberty up.
The MG Car Club is running a sprint meeting there. Free entry for spectators.

by **drndrn** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:14 pm

Hey Ric,

If only I had known about this earlier. Turns out my mates . Look out for them. There will be a few of them, a soarer, 2 350z, Jazz, Starlet and Astra.

Have a good one.

by **overl0ad** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:28 pm

i totally forgot about this...

by **Fangin_RX** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:56 pm

have fun ric, Would love to see that jazz and Astra tearing around the track

by **Ric** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:21 pm

Well we're back early, my father ran out of cars to break.....

First we had to drive from Melbourne to Benalla on Sat afternoon, but at 1:30 we heard that the Hume Highway was closed from Wallan to Broadford.
After lots of internet searching, we found that the Northern Highway was open to bypass the closed section. We met up with another guy just outside Melbourne (originally six cars were going to go up together, but the others decided to wait and see.

The servo we met at didn't have any premium fuel, so we had to stop at Wallan to fill up the MG. The other two cars ended up on the other side of the road, so had to do a U-turn to rejoiin the highway.
I was driving the MGa, and my father was driving my Liberty. He waited for some traffic lights to his left to go red, then started his U turn, and collided with an old HQ Holden that appeared from somewhere. This was where the green circle is.
The left side of my bumber ended up on the ground, and all the polystyrene foam behind it fell out. We managed to stick it back into position with gaffa tape.

So, we made it to Benalla on Sat night, then out to Winton on Sunday. There was heaps of smoke haze over the track, you can only just see it in the background.

My father and I had two runs each, then during his second run, the exhaust pipe broke apart just in front of the join between the extractors and the tailpipe. We tried wiring the tailpipe up to stop it catching anything on the track, and took the car to scrutineering to see if they would let us run.
The scrutineers didn't think it was safe enough, so the next optionn was to remove the tailpipe altogether. The only way to do that was to borrow a hacksaw and cut it in half.

We missed our third runs while doing this, then the organisers announced the meeting would be ended once all the third runs were complete, so we just had to carefully drive back to Melbourne, with the MG's exhaust pipe in the back of the Liberty. I drove the MG, and it's damn loud with no muffler at all!
(We called into Wallan again on the way home, and found the remains of my headlight protectors...)

by **Mano™** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:19 pm

lol bloody hell ric what u been doin!

by **Fangin_RX** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:38 pm

Drifter look on the lib

, Sounds like you might have a bit of mulla to spend Ric, Well atleast you got to drive the MG.

by **moggy** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:30 pm

Are you thinking it might be worth while to replace some of the exhaust bits with stainless? :lol:

Glad that everyones OK and you've just got some 'minor' fender bends to worry about.

Bob.

by **Spec B Wgn** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:36 pm

Ric wrote:

Looks like the fire engine got the jump on you...

what times was it running

by **Ric** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:28 pm

Spec B Wgn wrote:Looks like the fire engine got the jump on you...

what times was it running

I don't think he completed a full circuit...

Actually, that's my dad driving, I can never get him to take photos of me.
I won the MGA class in both the sprint, and the regularity, but there wasn't much competition, the two drivers who could have challenged me didn't come because they were too worried about the road closures.

Sprint result
Regularity result

by **Fangin_RX** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:22 pm

Well done on the wins mate, Atleast you had fun driving your MG

by **Ric** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:08 am

Well, the MGA is fixed, the Liberty is still waiting on AAMI.

We had to weld a new flange onto the end of the extractors, and replace all of the tailpipe and muffler.
The new muffler is a bit more free-flowing (and sounds nicer, without being too noisy), and the pipe now goes under the back axle rather than over, which made for some sharp bends and was the reason we had to cut the old one out.
The suspension is hanging down as low as it can extend on the hoist, so there's no chance of it hitting the pipe when I go over bumps.

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