So I am sat here still knackered from yesterday as it was a long day for me but so worth it!
Yesterday was the Pod drift day and strangely all went to plan.
unfortunately Pod is 150 miles each way for me but thought that it was the best place for me to gain experience and confidence with all the facilities there, so Pod it was.
5AM start to get there for just after 9 with a breakfast stop off.
Upon getting there I pumped the rear tyres up to 45PSI to start with and went on the play pens. I soon found out that my clutch is just not up to the job (although its done 90,000 miles and had a fair bit of abuse from me so cannot complain) and was just slipping whilst trying to drift in 2nd. Bit of a bummer, but I put the rears up to just over 60PSI which made all the difference. The clutch felt much better and wasn't really slipping any more. (I do have a video of the first run of the clutch slipping in 2nd I'll upload this later)
Overall other than the clutch the car was outstanding all day!! 302 miles round trip it didn't miss a beat and then the load of abuse it got throughout the day didn't phase it. Plus I can feel and now prove the winter modifications have made a big difference and as the car felt brilliant to slide.
This leads me onto the slight miss hap I had with a fence. I was on the oval/kidney and just couldn't hold the right hand drift long enough on the big right hand with out hitting the cone so my idea was swing the car into a right hand drift, halfway swing it left and right again to give me that little bit of distance I needed. Unfortunately I got a bit cocky on one of the attempts. Swung the car right, into a left hand drift a bit too vigorously meaning the car didn't want to come back round right sending me straight into the fencing and the block that hold the fence down. The car come out of it really well and it appears that this is the only damage. Although I'll get the car up at some point and check the suspension is all OK, but it felt fine and didn't affect the cars feel.
Some pictures of the day.....
A few just before I went into the fence.