Radical Season 2
T
he tough winter of 2020 saw not too much action in the garage for the Radical, a pleasingly small list of jobs to complete before season start, and with us all locked away from each other not much chance to work anyway.
Once things opened up we immediately booked a dyno session at RLM racing, the car returning to the workshop where it was reborn and we took delivery. Rich was very pleased the car was looking and going well and quickly got it rigged up to run.
The car lives at mine over winter so I just plodded through the small list, with just two main items needing attention – smaller oil cooler and a dyno session. The cooler swap was an easy job and we have reduced the size by two thirds, the original was a massive endurance cooler and not suitable for sprinting and hills.
As reported in previous episodes we had an ongoing issue with a dead spot at very light throttle making it impossible to just pull away slowly. A few minutes on his laptop and it was sorted….. plus it now has a closed loop wideband lambda system courtesy of a new sensor and some software changes. He also did a
Rich at RLM working his magic 22
