Sam from Mana, the car and the rolling road…it was time to find out if everything done to date was gone to work. First things first, some basic tuning to get the engine to run with popping and banging! That done Sam started to build up the RPM modifying fuelling and timing until the engine […]
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Having used Anglesey for a shakedown in pre-season testing we were quietly confident about the performance of the car…
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After using an electronic shifter for the last couple of seasons we opted to change to an ‘air-shift’ system which as with everything else would be controlled by the ECU.
Plagued by a few technical issues was the best way of describing our first weekend of racing with the new Yamaha set-up. Sadly lacking in power during our first run on Friday we discovered that despite working correctly during testing the inlet servo motor had chosen that moment to fail. This severely restricted top end
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After spending too long away from Monoposto we are back… Silverstone is going to be the first outing for our car fitted with a 2016 Yamaha R1 engine. After the highs and lows of 2024 we decided to take a long hard look at why we lost yet another engine, so we are
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Having chosen to use a modified wet sump system we had to be a able to test without loosing oil pressure and yet another engine!
Where to start…so many options. We where recommended the ECU Master Black and after talking with Sam from Mana Performance purchased their Dash and ECU
Our intention was always to run with a stock engine for as long as possible whilst still developing the chassis but during 2023 we realised this was going to be too much of an ask for the K8 and L2 GSXR’s. After making a list of available 1000cc engines we chose the Yamaha R1 –
The weekend was always going to be a hot one, with temperatures in the high 20’s predicted. To make things even harder for all the driver’s humidity of 90% was also predicted all weekend. Qualifying proved to be as difficult as ever with finding space on track being the ultimate difficulty. Despite not quite getting
After the rain that soaked us in race 2 at Snetterton we were looking forward to a warm and dry weekend at Silverstone. Silverstone is always a special race for the Monoposto championship, this year was going to be no exception. A 48-car grid always leads to some exciting racing. After some discussion post Snetterton
