Paulfluke's SR86 .....The road to PD / IDC.

[paulfluke]

Hey guys,

Thought I'd throw up a progress/project type thread on my new SR86..

My story - I've been on here for years, dipped in an out with various cars but never really had a proper car or build thread to throw up. I mainly spend most of my time on E30owners.com with my chromie. Some of ye may also know me from FreshFix that I run with Marty Moore. So after attending nearly all the PD events over the last few years and always wanting to enter I decided fuck it if I don't buy a proper car a try my hand at PD now I never will...

So I bought this....



I bought it from Chris Brady right after round 5 of Pd, previously Dennis Healy's car. To say its a fairly sorted car would be a bit of an understatement. With Sr20 up front, 550cc injecters etc etc and suspension to match it's all I'll need already, so there won't be a whole lot of upgrades needed. Basically all I plan to do is tidy up the interior and give the exterior my own touch...prob a more standard '86 look.

But before all that, since I plan on entering PD/IDC next year and being a complete novice, I thought I better get as much seat time as possible. So Eglinton in Derry got booked. I got there early and by chance so did the organisers so I got some invaluable dry track time to myself. Here I have to say a massive thanks to Con Tinney (M3con on here) who sat in with me and gave me som invaluable pointers...

I did however give the car a little "hi, I'm Paul" tap...



...was bound to happen really pulled it out of the tyres and plowed on for another 5 hours - it really is a value for money day at €12 hahah.

So when I got home the car looked like this..



Bit rough but it didn't miss a beat all day and it'd do for the next practice day. So Driftfest Tynagh on oct 28th got booked - and after no more than some bonnet and wing manipulation to have it looking a tad more respectable and a new set of tyres, off I went.

I was kinda shitting it about Tynagh to be honest and after hearing ticket giveaway's on the radio on the way down even more so..I was expecting big crowds and serious drivers that I'd be getting in the way of. Things didn't get any better when they put me in the caged class ( red ) that looked a bit more serious to me...



Anyways I took me about half a lap to forget all that and start smiling and I was pretty happy with my effort for the day..











Didn't smack the car and no problems otherwise. Another great day with loads of track time and extremely well run, only downside was the rain but sure nobody can do anything about that.

So thats about as far as I am to date - next weekend I'm heading for Bishopscourt ( I live in Donegal ) for another practice day so looking forward to that. I'd love for a dry day but we'll see what happens...They run a kinda competition at the end of the day too - not twin battling but simply judged on hitting clipping points - perfect for me just now...so I'll continue with a post on that and prob some car tidying stuff.

Paul.