'Hell of a machine Mike' - great compliment, then full gas

An Absolute pocket rocket👍

Another banger of a video Mike! Thanks for sharing!

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!😊

Car looks great. Love the way you filmed the vid. 👍

This is quality ❤

I think that passenger cringe was in mechanical sympathy 😂 looks sweet in action 👌🐬

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

yer, looking back on the footage I was a little heavy footed out the corners .. the car loved it right up until it conked out lol

Great vid m8, how the hell have u not got 100k subs

Top video Mike 👍👍

So awesome to see Compo on track and running hard

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Watching the footage back I could defo go faster and send it harder. Next time 😅

@gafrers

Жыл бұрын

@@mikefpe Better take in steps and not go immediately all out, otherwise there is risk to the wallet; and no one wants that.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

@@gafrers true. But it would make for some sweet content lol

Car it's duckling awesome Mike a credit to you and the work you put in to it.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks paul 👍🏻 it’s good to actually get some seat time

Great video, A course in reverse would be good for me, 20+ years of fwd hatches (3 minis, a 205, 4x306's and a civic) and been rwd for the last 6 years and dont have anywhere near the confidence I had, especially compared to in a 306.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

I find lift off oversteer more unpredictable than rwd. I’d like to get more seat time and become more confident in it. Watching the c+c boys makes me cringe sometime. Mainly because I know I’d end up in a tank slapper and probably off the track if I tried doing what they do lol.

Great video and Love the the Engine noises , seem a little too bumping for Airplane runway...🤔🤔🤔Loving the car...

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

The run way they are using for the aircraft was over the fence. Not sure what this area was designed for. Defo too bumpy for a little sesna to come in on lol

Definitely needs a quick rack so you don't have to keep shuffling hands. Probably with a Corsa b column with variable assistance to make it easier to steer and then you can go back to high boost

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer we are running the same Corsa B column on the jelly slider Sierra. Great unit. And need to go for boost by gear to make the high boost usable I think.

The sound of the car getting its head kicked 👍🏻

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Choo choo bang ba bang bang!!!

Saludos de Argentina mike

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Hola. espero que estés bien. ¿Recibieron Ford Fiestas en Argentina? sé que algunos estados de América del Norte tenían algunos mk1

@alejandrocarreno4424

Жыл бұрын

Si amigo yo tengo un mk3 en Argentina no llegaron mk1 en uruguay si, hermoso tu Ford fiesta

Back to regular uploads I hope man 🤞🤞

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Try too. Time is limited at the moment with the new baby and work seems to be busier than ever 😅

Straighten the wheel so you don’t have to guess where to put your hands. Now you are as we Finns say milking the steering wheel. Some good pointers from the lad giving you advice but I personally don’t agree with all of them. We have a different style of driving here in Finland. We brake hard in to the corner and drive it with power and left footing it with fwd cars, demanding on the brakes and needs a different mindset for accelerating in the corner. The car sounds awesome, could use some boost ramping in the track to get it easier to accelerate out the corner. Awesome machine!

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Alex did try and get me left foot braking but that didn’t go too well and I didn’t include those attempts in the video. Lol. Think I need to get my head around trail braking then start playing around with the left foot getting involved as well. So much going on. I learnt more from re watching the footage I think. Next on the shopping list is a maxxECU to enable me to have boost by gear which will help a lot with how the power comes in. Thanks for the comment tho. All about constructive comments like this Much appreciated 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@MJPilote

Жыл бұрын

@@mikefpe When I used to race, I did mental training before each session. Drive the course in your head, changing gears, turning imaginery steering wheel. Throttle, brakes and all. Sit on a bench or a chair and just imagine driving. And when you get behind the wheel your mind is already in the "game" made qualifying easy as you have already made the warmup laps in your mind.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

@@MJPilote what did you used to race?

@MJPilote

Жыл бұрын

@@mikefpe F1 sidecar

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

@@MJPilote are they the things called outfits?

Love the dolphin noise edited in at the beginning of the video.(and later on too). Is there a bit of a rub on left handers or was the corner a lot bumpier

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer another thing I need to re do is the rear tubs as they are too low and it’s catching on the tyres under hard cornering. The left handed was a bit more bumpy so we went back to the right turn.

Sounds sweet. Suspension needs sorting, it looks under damped at the rear?

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer the shocks were at the softest setting 🙃 this is all part of it. Playing around with the car to improve it where I can. Think the rear springs are also only 350 lbs Many of my racing buddies are using 600 + 😳

@samforsey

Жыл бұрын

@@mikefpe Sounds like you're sorting it. Will make a huge difference. I know what you mean about tractability as well. 280HP is not huge peak power but if it pulls low down in the revs, feels great. Have a k20 with an eaton M62, not huge peak power, infact around 280HP like yours. But it makes 2x std horsepower at 3krpm. Pulls like a train :-) keep it up

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

@@samforsey I had an m90 on this engine before and it used to shreds tyres from 1k rpm. I’d like to build another supercharger set up at some point. Just for the noise.

Thanks for another superb vid Mike! It's possible to know what wheels MX-5 has?

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Il ask Harry for you 👍🏻

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Harry said they are …Konig freeform 15x9.5

Good job theres subtitles 😜😂

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

One of my many Side exit issues 😂😂😂

Where u get Ur arches from matey?

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Stephan muller in Germany

@MWSRD

Жыл бұрын

brutal What arches after this they will be gone....lol

The suspension is definitelynot set right for the track surface, but nice car anyway !

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer all needs some fine tuning. That was another reason to book up the day.

That thing is absolutely mental Mike, think you might need to get that boost under control for a smoother driving experience. I’d love to see some dyno runs and graphs.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer need to get it back on the dyno for some experimenting. And I want to get a maxx ecu installed to run boost by gear @ignitionadvantages . Although it is funny as just blowing the tyres off every time you tickle the throttle pedal. Just isn’t the fastest way to go A ta B.

@Whateverpoopiepants

Жыл бұрын

@@mikefpe Funny, I’m looking at exactly the same ecus. Are you considering getting the “race” ecu so that you can have individual cylinder egt’s ? You could also run a second dbw throttle body vented to Atmos for boost control ! High performance academy just did a program on it. I’m currently building a weird air to water from vw parts for my 1999 1.7 puma. Thanks for the videos.