The next event for the Rotary Hillclimb Racing Car is the Mt Cootha Classic May 29th & 30th 2010 at Mt Cootha – Brisbane.
Last week I was asked to help the Historic Racing Car Club to promote the 2010 Mt Cootha Classic Hillclimb, by having the Rotary Hillclimb Racing Car available for a photo shoot at the Mt Cootha Hillclimb track.
In total there were 3 Hillclimb cars, 2 motorbikes and 1 side car set up ready for a photo shoot for the Courier Mail newspaper. We had to arrange the vehicles in such a way that when the photos were taken the Brisbane City was in the background.
The 2 photos below shows some back ground going’s on when we were setting up for the official photographer. The 2 photo’s below were taken by Kevin John the Yamaha R1 motor-bike in the photos is Kevin’s pride and joy, Kevin will be running the R1 at this Hillclimb as well as the other 170 cars.
The professional photos and a brief story will be published in the Courier Mail newspaper next week some time or over the weekend of the event. So keep an eye out for it to see how it all worked out.
The other modification that I have done for this event is try to get more steering lock out the car to help with the tight hairpin at the top of the track. I have striped the steering rack and removed the steering rack lock stops and machined each of the lock stops by 4mm each this will give a total of 8mm more steering rack travel.
I had to also machine and fit 7mm wheel spacers to each wheel to allow for the wheel to clear the control arms.
The series of photos below show the extra travel achieved to get more steering lock.
The road wheel at full lock before the modifications.
The road wheel at full lock after the modifications.
The steering wheel at full lock before the modifications.
The steering wheel at full lock after the modifications.
This modification has given me an extra 2.5 degrees of steering angle on each lock, so it should help.
I hope to see a few people at the Mt Cootha Classic, lets hope that we have a great hillclimb.
The next event after Mt Cootha is the Queensland Hillclimb Championships at Mt Cotton on the 5th & 6th June see you there.