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My Story…… Well I have been bashing car parks
for some years and have progressed through many cars and sets of tyres. It came to a point where I needed to
progress into something different (a new car). My search started, after many hours reading
magazines, visiting websites and scouring many shops, off I trotted to our
local dealer. The car I had got my eye on was a
Yokomo GT4 RTR. To my horror he hadn't
one in stock, but was quite keen in ordering in one for me to have a look at
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Its arrived…… The phone call I had been waiting
for, the car was in and ready for my first inspection in the flesh. First impressions with a car are very
important and believe me it scored very high…. Ok so the box could have done
with a bit of colour but pop the lid and what was inside was only to be
described as a pure extravagance. Was
this really the basis of a car that was going to pushed to the point of
destruction on the local supermarket car park, could I justify “bashing” such a high spec chassis……. Well
after a moment to consider my thoughts there was only one way to go, I parted
with the required amount of dollar and it was mine. |
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GT4 goes carbon…… One of the first areas of upgrade was
to try and add a bit more stiffness to the already very stable chassis. Market choices were restrictive - aluminium
braces or carbon sheet products. I
opted to go carbon, not much on the market but I located a supplier of what I
can only class as high spec carbon tweaks. |
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The Ultimate Car Park Basher |
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Yokomo GT4 RTR / RX 18 |
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The upgrade
continued….. The basic spec of the car didn't
leave a lot to be altered . . . . Its was going to be a game of enhancing
looks as well as performance. The
plastic tuned pipe soon found a home in the shed and was replaced with a nice
shinny aluminium pipe (Hot Bodies Product).
Air filter was quite at home next to the old pipe and was replaced
with a foam element “Motor Saver” product.
Set screws were swapped for blue aluminium additions and the main
front to rear drive belt was set up with a Yokomo belt tensioner. |
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The first run…... Starting the new engine seemed to be
of great ease, the first couple of tanks were run through with the car sat
supported on my workstation at just above tick over. It was then down to the local car park to
continue with the running in process.
After a few more tanks of fuel, running the car at various speeds over
a figure of eight circuit, it became quite apparent that this car was going
to be the one to be reckoned with for this summers car park challenge. The chassis was both smooth and responsive,
it was easy to see that this car was a development of a pure racing
machine. The engine and chassis soon
bed in to a state where driving the car was a sheer pleasure. Over the next few weeks it was going to be
great fun tweaking and preparing for some summer nights of real fun. |
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