Alex Heavens

20 hours is not great!! Although I have seen a forward gear starting to wear after only a few hours. I guess once the metal is in the oil it probably speeds up the wear process, plus once the case har...

What is becoming quite common in the UK is super finishing the gears. It’s certainly not a “fix”, but it should improve the life of the gears. Having said that I have heard of a bad batch of forward g...

Hi JoeP, Definitely interest!!! I have pm’d you Thanks Alex

@lunatic Attachment : 48DBEECD-182D-489E-B6AD-6916FBE6A9CB.jpeg This is the “stronger centre” Image wheel Attachment : 3A8982DA-4C61-45A4-90E6-C0801C60DDF8.jpeg This is the BBS wheel (ce...

@jwb Did you manage to get this problem sorted? Did you find out what the cause was in the end?

@lunatic Hi Robert. I believe they failed without any contact or anything like that. The car I saw one fail on was being raced, I’m trying to get a picture of it from the guy running the car at the ti...

Very cool project!!! Looks like it’s all coming together 👍 I have seen those original type straight spoke Image wheels break before (the rear centres). You may want to consider using different...

@parsonsj Yes I expect all the running gear to last longer with smooth shifting 👍 I remember the early days of the sr8 (They were already 2 years old before I got involved with them), lots of ...

@parsonsj That’s Great news the shift system is working perfectly 👌 Good idea having the inertia cut off, I guess you can lower the limit back down for less bumpy circuits?

@parsonsj Haha yeah the old valve block wouldn’t have liked 10.69 bar 🙈 Surprised it lasted as long as it did tbh. I found an interesting picture from a very early SR8, with a different chassi...

@parsonsj That’s more like it 👍 I think the min pressure you now have is more than the max pressure the Radical valve block can take 🤣 Double top secret? I expect super fast shift time...

Something else I remembered. I’m pretty sure the reason for changing the gear ratio settings in the gcu is so it can determine when it will allow/disallow a downshift based on rpm as to not over rev t...

So I’ve popped the back casing off my JFR and it definitely has that 3mm washer before the inner race on the layshaft. On your 1st picture Josh, I can’t see the washer, so it’s either been left out or...

@parsonsj Looks good John. What have you raised the pressure up to? I’ve just realised your chassis, or rather the frames that bolt to the chassis are different to the later SR8’s. Radical added a 5th...

@parsonsj Great, I’m sure the shifting will be better 👍 That’s handy you don’t have to send your engine back to the uk. Yes it doesn’t look as easy to mount the tmt as the jfr with sandwich pl...