The Adventures of the Corolla continue, though for once the car performed almost perfectly.
I forget where I was up to in regards to fixing the car, but as of July 2017:
New brake master cylinder
Catch-can fitted
Found a nail in one of the tyres, changed it, also lowered the tyre pressures in general since I was wearing the centre out of the treads far faster than I should have been.
Washed the car.
Buried the taco in a cupboard somewhere and got on with my life.
And the cassette player died…
I took the car out last in June to blow up the Tacho and do some events, having got a severe bug that knocked me flat for a month and saw me miss out on the last of the June events before our lone July event was postponed so we could run a car-hire race event instead to make that sweet bank.
Last footage of the Tacho a week before it died.
That same day I ran the car in an Autocross (Dirt Time Attack) where I agreed to give a younger friend a drive of the car based upon his skill in the “works entry” Pulsar and then in the afternoon, I went train chasing.
And then I took some pictures.
(That one’s edited, I stuck two different pictures together)
Then, once I’d lost the Tacho, my mate and I took the car onto the WW2 runway that the track is built around and did what you guys would call an Autocross, but we call a Motorkhana and then later did a Khanacross, which is like a Motorkhana, but on steroids.
To deter my younger mate from dicking around in the car like he did last time, I attempted to put a throttle restrictor on, by nailing a block of wood onto a spare throttle pedal I pulled out of my parts car.
It was at the track, when I was replacing the pedal that I realised that the bolts holding the current pedal down were stripped and I couldn’t change the pedal, to his credit, my friend realised I was serious about this and he treated the car with respect, given that certain club members had told me not to let him drive the car again, I happily rubbed his good results and excellent driving in their faces.
To my satisfaction, based upon his good driving in my Corolla, he was given a drive of “The Galant” a car that is worthy of it’s own article, which I’ll write soon after.
The car is in the shed, waiting for the next Khanacross where it will, no doubt, be the same backmarker it has always been.
The crowning moment of the car came in the May Autocross though, our cars are launched in a way that there are 2-3 cars on track at the same time, depending on speed, the first few meetings I ran the Corolla I’d constantly find myself being hounded by a faster car.
Halfway around the lap I looked to my right as I went into our banked hair-pin and saw a Subura WRX hammering down on me like crazy.
I drove the wheels off the car and got around the track in 94 seconds, which is slow considering the 75 second lap record, but was a full 3 seconds faster than my best time in the car and I doubt I’ll ever drive it that fast again!