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  1. No Crust Racing
    It's not just safety tech. Modern chassis are superior all round, what you get in a "road" car these days is akin to what was a race car previously in terms of chassis stiffness, anti-squat geo, king pin inclination bump steer correction etc etc Suspension kinematics are vastly improved all round, ignoring specific alignment settings like cabmer/castor. An equally tired 86, even with a bit less power is faster than an S-chassis around a 1min per lap track with both drivers being of roughly equal skill. the 86 chassis is head and shoulders better in every way. It was only when we went to Winton that had a few straights I could use the power of the CA to pick up some cheap lap time. On anything tight/twisty, the 86s kill S-Chassis and MX5. Just one comparison.
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    Don't agree, I think he will love it when it happens, it'll only be how much $$ he loses on the 33 that he remembers lol
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    Agreed, it's FUGAnugly
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    Rav4 is surprisingly big inside, we're looking at one for us, BUT we are well past pram stage. Also eyeing CX8 and equiv Hyundai stuff
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    Always good and bad examples of every car, I'm fairly biased against Subaru's BUT that is anecdotal from all the stuffed ones you see on market place with blown boxes/diffs/and of course headgakets. Plenty of stuffed euros too and we all know how SR's/RBs love to munch a few bearings or how Nissan CVTs are absolute shite. Was gonna say this is a bit off topic but then I remember what thread we were in
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    Buy a turbo Subaru to if you wanna support the only manufacturer that keeps short blocks in ready supply because they eat head gaskets and are shitful to work on. Legit, you can call up a dealer and get a new short block for 3-4k within the week because they're a stocked part... 10 thumbs down.
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    Oh I didn't know more were coming, congrats my dude As for the 33, you might not get 55-60k for it, sure, but would you get 40? Would that allow you to get a nice BMW? Dunno, but prices are moving and I'm seeing track/drift cars with built engines etc for back down around 20k rather than 40.
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    In addition to the 33 or to replace the 33 or to replace the missus Tiguan?
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    I've been having a little look online at fun cars, as the main dirt road that leads to my house has just been sealed meaning I only have to make it 500m up my steep dirt driveway into the safety of the shed..... Anyway I am seeing a few prices dropping so if you are gonna sell this thing, make it soon while you cn still command a premium. Even Himmy was selling a modded 08 R35 for 85k or less.
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    Agree, I have some used Porsche slicks sitting on my new rims for when the Silvia ever runs again. Not sure what R comp I'll try next, maybe Z221s also.
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    So you were over tyred for the power as I said above. A mate with an R33 and 300+rwkw on Z221s cannot get a full 20mins session from them, but my guess is he would've been doing faster than 1:09 at Wakefield, it's all relative. Nothing wrong with over tyring the car, but the reality is most people are running Z221/equivalent advans, and in my club, used slicks also, and will still cook the tyre in 20mins because the cars are far more powerful and suspension far more capable than it used to be allowing us all to go much faster. Same goes for any "issue". I could go a full 20mins and not see oil temps above 110, but the car had under 200kw, and very decent/ducted oil cooler setup. You can apply the same approach to any aspect of the car and when you do all of them you can go run 20mins flat out. They call those GT3 cars I think Anyway, agree to disagree, but I think Johnny's pattern of hot/cool laps is fun for lots of club level cars.
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    No stupid questions and yes in my experience at club level lots of people follow this pattern which is why watching your mirrors is very important and considered poor track etiquette if you fail to do so.
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    I've only had limited experience with budget R comps/good street tyres (NankangAR1/Federal RSR etc) but neither would come close to a full 20min session at the level of push required to get a PB for my car i.e. 100% Maybe bigger dollar tyres will give better consistency, but I can't think of many affordable tyres that are going to give top tier PB level grip for 20mins of 100% push unless your car is heavily over tyred for the power/suspension capability etc. I would go as far as to say if your tyres can last that long you are not driving anywhere near as hard as the car can handle. Time attack is called 1 perfect lap for a reason.
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    I'm with Johnny and yes I used to do that process often because my tyres could not handle more than 2hot laps to start then 1 ever other lap because I drive like shit and I am brutal on the gear. As I was nearing the end of my last season and worrying about the stock CA surviving so I could win my class I was also dropping max RPM, down to like 6500 and only doing sometimes 2 hot laps in a session as the season old tyres were giving up, and yet I kept going faster every track day so you don't gotta rev/drive/turn in hard to set a good time. Especially when you're as average a driver as all of us will be.
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    That's fair, lots of work to track prep it, risk of breaking it, all time and money and you're covering both of those so it's easy for us to sit back and say go for it son! If you do go, knowing the engine is older, just be kinder to it I guess. Nice gradual warm up, 1 hot lap maybe 2 max, cool down lap etc. Just give the engine a chance to manage thermal loads and oil return to the sump.
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    Given you wear a harness, get a HANS.
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    I follow F1 and watched a few eps of DTS, was not impressed at the manufactured drama/bs. It has brought a lot of new fans in though so that's cool
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    Oh and yeah I'm not dead
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    I've heard that story before too, the ripping through the floor bit, and I do recall seeing some pics at one point but I don't think it was an old jap car. Either way, full weld in for me because dedicated race car. I would be a bit more game to track a newer car with a harness bar/hans setup given all the airbags and improvement in safety cell design, but probs not an older jap car.
  20. No Crust Racing
    Well done
  21. No Crust Racing
    Why is there no pictures of ports, at least I was sharing detailed pics man. I'm not savvy enough to tell from pics posted but is this a VVL head now? What happened to the NAPREC one?
  22. No Crust Racing
    Subscribed for 12k rpm video thx
  23. No Crust Racing
    Glad to see you enjoying the car my man
  24. No Crust Racing
    Fair enough, I think about this a lot as I chip away at my build(s). What do you think is your limit? $$? Until you crash/come close? Until you win at a certain level etc?
  25. No Crust Racing
    Serious car is serious. What's the longer term goal here?
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