college

Well as some may know im training to be a motor sport mechanic at the national college for motorsport in silverstone so i though i would stick a few pics up of what i was doing to day (not that interesting but might entice more people to go there )

well to start with today i had to strip down a hewland sequential straight cut gear box as it was old and not needed any more (but spares are expensive so main parts are tagged and bagged)









then me and on of the other lads had to carry one(of 7) k1200 bmw (these are bored and stroked to 1600cc) engine down 2 flights of stairs for the formula BMW race car and strip the sump down and reddy to be dressed tomorrow, there was a problem with a few bit as they were sliding parts that kept getting stuck so i polished them so hope fully the prob will be solved





Why would you stick the oil filter in the sump ? lol




so thats the fun's of been a junior mechanic, its quite good though as we are just left to it and have to do things for out selves

and just some other random pics



new(ish) forumla renault 1600 been built up again, we will be racing this


formula somthing


ss600 all lonley in the back of the shop, i need to helicoil the front disk mount and refit the flat slides at some point, its a race tuned cbr600 and just happens to be sprung for my weight


and this was the most important job of the day, fitting my mates air filter to my other mates car

[squirrel_hunter]

I found out about courses like this a year after I finished at Uni. If I knew then what I know now...

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

I found out about courses like this a year after I finished at Uni. If I knew then what I know now...

you can never be to old you'd just have to pay

[dizzyblonde]

Proper barryboy mod innit!

[Dave20046]

May I just congratulate you on spelling the title correctly




Wish I did **** like that all day!

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Proper barryboy mod innit!

haha we started it up and it just fell off nothing unusual there

Originally Posted by Dave20046

May I just congratulate you on spelling the title correctly




Wish I did **** like that all day!

LOL

its good fun but your hands suffer ALOT gloves dont work for stuff like gear boxes as they just get caught

i was washing stuf in race fuel yesterday and i was high for at least a hour perk of the job

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

you can never be to old you'd just have to pay

I'm still paying for the last one. Plus £9,000 a year? You've got to be kidding. I would take that, spend it on tools, buy a couple of bikes and teach me self.

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

I'm still paying for the last one. Plus £9,000 a year? You've got to be kidding. I would take that, spend it on tools, buy a couple of bikes and teach me self.

9k ? i dont have to pay as i started when i was 18 so if i stay there through level 2-4 then i stay on with no fee possibly because im not actully there for the last year and im still 18 when i start the level 3 part (just started)

did some more fettling with the BMW engine (its really is cr*p lol) the oil pressure release valve was gets stuck the cam chain tension was getting stuck and making the chain skip, so polshed them up and all is good in the hood






the cam chain tension sits on the inside of the cam chain side cover so the only way you can get to it is to strip all the covers off (cam and crank) then take it apart ..


cam tansioner after a polish


this engine has got to be in the car by next monday ..... and we dont have half the parts for it yet

[DavieSV]

I would have loved to do that when I was younger.
I was brought up in a family of rally drivers, so there was always a car in bits somewhere.
One of my uncles worked on the lister storm GT racer some years back.

I'm hoping to get my grubby hands on a 1700cc BDA soon,
fully race preped, dry sumped etc, with twin webbers, running 175bhp

then mid mount it in a tubular space frame chassis.

I like all the geeky set up and fiddling just to try and get an extra 10th of a second.

I hope you excel at it and can get one of the few well paid jobs out there. There must be quite some competition for them.