How much time ...

[megamaniac]

per week do you spend setting up your car and general fettling?
I reckon i must spend about 6hrs a week minimum .

[stockhatcher]

i try to spend as little time as possible on the car between races, to the point where i am going to 'get someone in' to do the donkey work and general spannering, changing pads and discs, and wheel bearings, and oil changes has become a real pita this year ( been doing this kind of work for three seasons now) i am seriously contemplating doing the arrive n drive thing its the worst thing about racing for me ( not helped by the fact that i am a bit st at this spannering malarky anyway ) i haven't got the patience for it. however having a full time job and a wife and kids prevents me from spending enough time on it anyway.. the wife doesn't mind me racing but hates the fact that i have to spend a day on the car before i do a race.

[Nicol@]

The o/h spends every available minute in the garage, so I see him briefly at dinner time and that's about it (although I spent hours with him in the car yesterday going to the race meeting).

To say I am a bit fed up with this is an understatement.

Even when the car is ok, he still feels the urge to tinker about with it, I expect many of you do this too.

(sorry for the moan, just remember your suffering partners)

[Munter]

Nicol@ said:

The o/h spends every available minute in the garage, so I see him briefly at dinner time and that's about it (although I spent hours with him in the car yesterday going to the race meeting).

To say I am a bit fed up with this is an understatement.

Even when the car is ok, he still feels the urge to tinker about with it, I expect many of you do this too.

(sorry for the moan, just remember your suffering partners)

Sorry love I heard you say something but I couldn't quite hear you. Was it "would you like a cup of tea?"

:ducksandruns:

[custardtart]

Spent several hours this sat morning making some new go faster bits for Brands this weekend and have a bit of investigation to do on the digital dash which has lost some functionality but that's it until testing on Friday when I'll be playing with spring rates all day

Although I like to tinker I do like the fact that I don't have touch the car betweeen one race and the next - I look at cars on a race weekend where the owners seem to spend every spare minute fixing something, would drive me mad that!

[CNHSS1]

Nicol@ said:

(sorry for the moan, just remember your suffering partners)

my other half is fully versed in brake bleeding, trailer loading etc and rues the day she said she'd like to help out! she has competed a bit too. i stick to the motto "a hobby shared, is a license to use the joint account for parts.." ;-)
from all us car tinkerers, we do appreciate all the help we get, and just remember, all the time we are playing with our cars, we arent playing away ;-)

[JP_Midget]

Not as much as I'd like! I've not got the car close at hand, but if it were I think I'd be in the garage two evenings at least after a race weekend to make sure it was back to best.

On Sunday I needed to do some work on the car so that I'll have it ready in time for the next race, but my girlfriend wanted to go out. Instead of knowing what she wanted to do I spent the morning waiting for her to make up her mind, and once we'd got back there wasn't enough time for me to complete what I wanted. Had she told me in the morning that she wouldn't be ready for a couple of hours I'd have been able to do some then... both our falts really for not communicating that well!

[skeggysteve]

Few years ago I helped a mate look after his racing car. One evening we are in the garage with another mate.

Drivers wife comes in and asks why we spend so much time mucking about with the car only get to drive it for 30 minutes at the race?

Before we could answer the other mate says he spends the same amount of time on his car and only get to drive it for 10 seconds and is trying to make it less - he raced a drag car

Poor girl just didn't understand

[thunderbelmont]

Normally I try to spend as little time on the car as possible!! But that always backfires. Piss Poor Preparation Prevents Perfect Performance!

Right now I'm rebuilding the car after binning into the wall at Rockingham last September, plus I'm changing it from oval spec to road course spec, and to make life more interesting, we've changed tyres from Avon nylon radials to Hoosier plasticine crossplys. That means the axle has to be changed from having 2.5deg camber, to no camber. Having all sorts of woes doing that.

It's about a week's work if you do it full time, 8-10hrs a day, but I'm doing a bit here, and a bit there. Started in March when I got my chassis straightened.

Might have it all ready for August Bank Holiday!!!

[onomatopoeia]

10-15 hours / week on average across the year, but that's spread across two cars and it goes down when the events I'm involved in the organisation / clerking of are in the pre-event planning phase.

I'm not talking to the Davrian (sprint and hillclimb car) at the moment so all my free time is given over to the Singer Chamois classic trials car.

[Andy_sx]

things are only just getting started for me as i have decided that i wish to make my old road car into a track car / sprint / hill climb car after it failed its mot on something silly and harbouring these types of thought for too long now.

its currently only a few hours a week, but thats to get it Mot'd firstly, and get the prep work started (stripping the interior, brake rebulids etc) but I am sure the time spent tinkering will increase as the project goes along

[team-misfire]

Oil and filter every other meeting and wash, clean windows, spanner and tracking check Sat evening ready for Sunday then.....

[h5lrw]

We are out in the garage mon-fri 19:30 - 11:00 and all day Saturday fettling our various machinery.

[jellison]

megamaniac said:

per week do you spend setting up your car and general fettling?
I reckon i must spend about 6hrs a week minimum .

I have man do this for me - I mail him what I want and It gets Sorted;)

Call THE FATHER.....