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yeah, mum always said I was special... but you want different - how about an Aristo with a race seat? believe it or not, I tried to be smooth in my shootout lap. And that's where I got the 59.9. Apart from coming into Hungry a little hot and with a bit too much trail, that's as smooth as I get... I think its handling OK. I'm not exactly a fan of the R888s, but they have to be better than the KU36 the Supra was on. I can't explain it. Maybe you should pedal it around out there - see what you think...

didn't really work for me! JZA80 Supra 1530kg Stock turbos, stock boost (10psi) with cat-back + pod = maybe 180rwkw, if that! I ran it in TTC mode rather than sequential, but that's just to even out the midrange rather than having to deal with the thing going single to twin all the time at about 4000rpm. It doesn't make any more power. KU36 tyres. Stock brakes. Tein coilovers with off the shelf springs. The only suspension tweaks I made were ride heights and maxing out camber on the front with the stock eccentric adjusters. 60.7 Lakeside 180SX 1250kg HKS GTSS, Pfc, 15psi 200rwkw on the dyno. R888 semis. R32 GTR brakes. Bolt-in cage. Tein coilovers, adjustable fking everything to get rid of rear bump steer, repeatedly messing around with spring rates chasing a good balance, 59.9 Lakeside. Why is the more powerful, much lighter 180SX on better rubber only 8tenths faster? FIIK! On paper it should be seconds faster... That was certainly what I had in mind when I sold the Supra and bought the S13. I have no doubt the Supra on equal rubber would have been quicker, and it was almost stock. Imagine how it would have gone with a FMIC and the boost wound up... I'm a bit annoyed with the 180SX

will do mate. I have a speed limit defender on the way for the Aristo, so I might try it out on that at the next Lakeside sprint lol

cool. I'll give it another go. Thanks Stabby

yeah I tried HarrysLapTimer app for the first time the other weekend just with the built-in GPS. Hopeless. so it works well for you with the TomTom cradle? If so, I'll have to get one. Even paying $159 for the TomTom cradle still makes it a cheap lap timer.

I think we've lost him to the dark side...

my thoughts: 1) don't make an assesment on how the car handles based on crap tyres that have no grip anywhere 2) don't try to balance a car with different types of tyres

nup Hankook Ventus semis. I was talking to them breifly as they were testing at Lakeside at a recent sprint before the Tuner Challenge. I wanted to know where they got the tyres... must have been wet - 2minutes plus at EC is sloooooooooow!

definitely. the trigger is in a fixed location physically on the track/pit wall and triggered as the car actually passes it. GPS timers rely on Points Of Interest for locations on the track (eg start/finish line, splits etc) which in reality will most likely not be recorded exactly on the track, in which case a hypothetical line through the GPS POI is what triggers it. And say your GPS is operating at 1hz, its only updating your GPS position once every second. At my local track I cross the start/finish line at approx 200km/h. In that second where my GPS lap timer needs to stop one lap and start a new lap, I've covered over 55m. So it needs to interpolate those 2 GPS positions and speeds at those points, roughly calculate the acceleration (probably linearly), to work out when you crossed that line perpendicular to the Start/Finish line POI... Having said all that, they can get pretty decent results! But a beacon lap timer is more absolute and accurate. Its not having to do anything except count time and wait to be physically triggered.

pilfered from hardtuned.net:

maybe you should concentrate on getting on the track. I saw you on the entry list - but you didn't turn up???

one more. chasing a much more powerful GTR on slicks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrmP8L6YFV8

yeah, allegedly

says the bloke who ditched his car for something faster for the big events with the little trophies lol

depends on the event - at multi-club hillclimbs up here they definitely enforce restrictors in IP. Out at Stanthorpe (Carnell) they don't care if the car is IP eligible, let alone whether it has a restrictor or not. So it varies alot. It all depends on how seriously they take themselves. It is supposed to be a National Chamionship Supersprint... There's potential for properly IPRA legal cars not being too happy about running against illegal cars... I'm just saying if they're going to let turbo cars in IPRA without restrictors, they should have mentioned that in the Supp Regs. That way people with those cars will know and be able to enter that class, and other competitors will know in advance too and not be pissed off come race day... Its happened to me at an ordinary multi-club hillclimb at Grafton a few years ago in my Datto. Its almost bound to happen at the "Australian Supersprint Championship" that some douchebag will take it all too seriously. Would be nice if CAMS had a national set of rules for their national championship.

lol Roy. I was expecting (or hoping) old mate in the EVO coming out of the pits would have the good sense to stay off the racing line to let people on their flying laps through until he was up to speed... its not like I was the first car to scream past him as he came out, so he shoulda been alerted to the fact that other cars were already on their fliers... I wasn't left with much choice but to take to the dirty side on cold slicks. Wasn't the ideal 1st lap to get back in the groove after not having driven since May! I did knock about 20km/h off as he swung across into the apex, but that was still at 180km/h when I got all loose out in the dirty stuff. I would have loved to have seen his face with me fishtailing past him at those speeds lol

call them, the Warwick Car Club are normally very sensible about applying the rules a bit more liberally. TC will tell you which class to enter. I think there was a number on the entry forms? Sport Sedans is probably where most imports will end end up anyway! The Southerner's Type 1-5 class system would have been ALOT better!

a well driven EVO will be very quick around there mate. And there shouldn't be any real serious Sport Sedans anyway. Its only a SuperSprint. Don't pay too much attention to my anti-CAMS rants... not so sure I'll be entering, i destroyed one of my slicks yesterday and the budget was goign to be pretty tight to get to this event as it was. but definitely in for beers

I was going to try to roughly explain the categories, but its all too hard. short answer is slicks will put you in Sport Sedans with spaceframed, all but mid engined 1125kg 750bhp 6l Chev powered things with big wings and slicks. put semis on and they MAY let you in Improved Production depending on how strict they're going to be with the IPRA rules for things like turbo restrictors. Call the organisers.

here's a couple of my vids from the Japanese Nationals yesterday: bit of an altercation with an EVO with no mirrors, and the edge of the track ripping a tyre to shreds

tell 'em I put you onto to them, Peter. Actually you may know Paul Williamson yourself - a rally guy from way back.

they're harder compound and more expensive than both the KU36 and Federal 595RSR. My thoughts are both those tyres are going to perform better for less money. Federals are softer and faster, KU36 will probably last a little longer. Both are good tyres in the same category as the RT615. Buy them from Option 1 garage cheap! www.option1garage.com.au/NewTyres.htm I've had the KU36 on a couple of cars. They're hard to beat for the money, but the Federals are pretty close on price now too and certainly have the edge at the track.

I'd say the best price/performance now is the Federal FZ201 medium. very sharp pricing and they're doing very good times. I personally don't rate the R888 at all. And listen to Duncan about the widths. a 255 semi will probably be wider than your 265 street tyres.

ended up shimming the V-LSD instead. Mainly so that its still nice to drive on the road. Hopefully it works OK on the track for a while too. Should be a few tenths in that if it eliminates some wheelspin. Cost next to nothing thanks to Paul at Option 1 Garage, so I figured its worth a try. Plus it maintains my 'full street trim' excuse

lol yeah, Warwick is a good old country town mate. When I was doing their series years ago I used to pay by money order - umm, from a post office...