Everley - Eversly

Corally Phi/09 at the EWCS R4 - TQ and 1st Overall...

After the first round of this championship, to say we had problems was an understatement. Initially we felt the random handling problem we had was mainly down to the tyres. We persevered all day, continually reducing the steering which just seemed to increase every run. Poor Mark, he did his best to drive around it, but it was a real handful. At the end of the meeting we put some used STCC tyres on and the car was okay again except it was lacking in steering, not surprising really after having spent all day reducing it........

The next 2 rounds were cancelled due to snow and travel problems, we were looking forward to round 4. I had now stripped the complete car checking and measuring EVERY part just looking for something that might explain the terrible handling problem we had endured previously. Absolutely nothing wrong with the car, I could not find anything wrong at all, bent or out of place! After discussing this with Mark, we decided I should rebuild the car on the optional super narrow chassis, and leave everything else as it was, however during the re-assembly, I was concerned about the extended stand-off's for the rear mounted shocks and the movement they would cause to the shock tower. After some checking instead of doubling up on the shock tower to stiffen it, I fitted the rear diff bearing carriers from the 2011 prototype, as these have the shock tower mounts on them and moved well back, as well as inboard top link pick up points. But I knew what I wanted regarding the geometry so used the shock tower pick-up points as normal. We did not complete the open practice as the newly installed motor's sensor board seemed to be playing up, so Mark pulled off while we swapped out the sensor board for another one, end of open practice...