Paul Whiffin

Thanks to Steve L for making this airbox up for me the other day, your getting good at these now! Heres the finished intercooler pipe I made to link up to the Hypertune manifold along with a power steering inlet modified to clear the Hypertune throttle body.  

Well its all back together and running again, just got the horrible task of running it in again now! Might try a different method this time round though.

Been busy putting the engine back together which as you can see from the below pictures is all done and in the car. I changed over to a Carbonetic triple plate clutch as my old RPS carbon carbon was worn out plus the pressure plate had started to fall apart! Not an expense I was […]

Quick update. Fully stripped the engine today, looks like a piston has got a tad hot and broke a piston ring. This in turn has caused a bit of cylinder head damage, nothing to drastic, head just needs a bit of a clean up. So another block and a set of pistons it is then. […]

Right, I’ve decided to stick with the stroker kit, I haven’t taken the engine apart yet so I still dont know exactly whats happened to it but pretty sure it’ll be melted pistons. Also I’ll be going over to a Solaris ECU, will be working together with Ryan to get it installed as soon as […]

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With some great results so far and a long break to come until the final round, the team was looking to add to their points at their favorite circuit, Brands Hatch. Paul Whiffin would not be driving the deadly stealth bomber at this round due to suspected piston failure. This was a real shame as […]

Big thanks to Ben Weeks as he’s kindly going to lend me his car for Sunday now. Got quite a few things to do on it over the next few days though, going to be busy busy busy. Gearbox, front lower arm, tracking, remapping, rear arb links, brake pads, bleed, etc.

Not good news I’m afraid, think the engines melted a piston. It started using a bit of oil at Silverstone and when leaving Brands last night it chucked a bit of blue smoke out the exhaust. Done a compression test today and that was fine but leak down test showed 85% leak by on no. […]

Had a top notch afternoon at Brands Hatch today, absolutely love this circuit, would highly recommend it to anyone. The car itself started off with bags of understeer through the slower corners and oversteer in the high speed corners so not good! To get the balance sorted out we started by raising the rear wing […]

The 295/30 rear tyres worked a treat, no rubbing at all so thats what I’m sticking with from now on. On another note I cooked my power steering fluid at Snetterton which in turn knackered my power steering pump. So fitted a 13 row cooler to the power steering system today, should cure that problem hopefully. […]

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After the dream start to the season at Oulton Park, and the continuing success at least in part at Knockhill, Round three at Silverstone was a chance for both drivers to score further championship points. Thanks to the swift provision of a new turbo for Paul Whiffin’s stealth bomber from AET turbos and frantic spannering […]

Darren and I did a bit of work on getting some cool air to the air filter area today. Basically took an air feed from the bumper around the intercooler area which feeds underneath the headlight using the stock air filter duct. Also cut a hole into the bonnet and fitted a naca duct, its […]

Just finished off installing the GT4094 hyrbid turbo, AET Turbos welded on a 4″ exhaust outlet flange in the right position so the downpipe would bolt straight on, so apart from the intercooler pipe connection which I had to remake it was a straight forward fit. Looks a bit lost in the engine bay after […]

Picked up another sponsor since the last event, AET Turbos. We swapped over to using them about 6 months ago after numerous problems with our previous supplier. It was a good decision as they are far better to deal with and are giving us track side support to. From the next Time Attack round onwards […]

My new turbo arrived today, thought I would weigh it compared to the old unit. GT42RS 17kg, the GT4094hybrid 10kg, so thats another 7kg off the weight! I’m now wondering if I can go down to a 3″ or 3.5″ exhaust system to save some more weight. My current 4″ system is very heavy but […]

Thought I’d better say a thanks to all of the sponsors I’ve had this year so far: Motul Oils, the best on the market Triple T Services, if you need any cars transported around the world, he is the man Porterfield Brakes, been using there pads for years now and love them, high recommended Nitron […]

Ok, update time. Had a problem with the turbo at Knockhill last weekend. The turbo decided to bend its shaft, no idea why it did it at the moment to be honest, only removed it just before I left tonight, I’ll get it sent off to my turbo chaps at AET Turbos for them to […]

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After the highs of a 1-2 finish in the first round of the Time Attack 2009 season, the team where looking forward to the second round. The only drawback, the track was up in Scotland! Although the team have visited the famous Knockhill circuit twice before, no one was looking forward to the journey which […]

Just got back from Snetterton, had a good blast around, quite hard to get a clean lap in so didn’t really have a chance to set a decent lap time. For the first time this year we spent a bit of time trying some different setups to change the balance of the car. The car […]

Just got back from Nitron Racing Shocks [url]http://www.nitron.co.uk/[/url] We spent about 5 hours on the setup of the suspension in total. Started with the wheel alignment which turned out to be miles off as I was messing around with ride heights at Oulton Park, I now know its spot on. We then moved on to […]

11/05/09 After the 1st round of Time Attack at Oulton Park I’ve decided to install a smaller rear housing on the GT42 turbo I’m currently using. Oulton being a bit more technical than some of the other circuits showed up some lag on a couple of the corners. I’ve changed it from a 1.15 to […]