Merli

@ brendan

Hmmm true... I think I have plans for the weekend too... Maybe the next weekend then? Sunday 27th?

I actually made a half-hearted comment during the day to someone about how they should be teaching people how to take those corners in the wet instead of sitting on their asses and just scream out lame jokes when people spin... But I guess if you guys asked for no instruction, then that's all good! Personally I wouldn't know the best way to get my car to pirouette and do a 360 around the first witches hat as seen in one of the course layouts, and I would want to be taught how to do it instead of floundering like a chump out there

Do yourself a favour and click this link http://www.rebeccacartwright.homestead.com...photos~ns4.html

I'd hit it until she walks funny. :uh-huh:

Prank registered on: 14-04-2002 So I assume that's the date we should be working off? That's next Monday. Maybe we could organise a huge BBQ somewhere for next Sunday? Sunday 20th?

Prank? Got a date for when SAU forums were officially launched?

WHOA. I think the Doc may be onto something here!

When is it?

DAMN IT!!! I think something's wrong with the car... I just bought myself a new car, and it's not running right. No matter how hard we pushed it, it wouldn't go over 14rwkw. There is definitely something wrong with it. The previous owner said it drove perfectly straight, and the only problems were a few stain marks on the front seats (looks like spew?) The tyres are a little worn, I was thinking about replacing them with some semi slicks? Anyone got any suggestions? Anyway... Here's a photo of it on the dyno. http://www.andrewho.com/misc/dyno.jpg

Yes, I'm running a PowerFC... Contrary to popular belief, quite a bit needs to be done to teh base maps that come with PowerFCs, even for standard cars. If you plugged in your PowerFC with APEXi base maps, and drove the car in anger, you'd be detonating all over the place. The ignition timing it too advanced for our fuel, and the entire fuel map needs to be checked over... That's 800 load points that need to be looked at... Some tuning shops will give it a quick tune, and floor it on the dyno at full boost, and make sure it doesn't ping during those full power runs, but that only covers perhaps 5-10% of the tuning map... What about when you drive around normally at half or 3/4 throttle? They haven't checked that on the dyno where they only do full power runs. All I'm saying is that some shops take an entire day to tune cars, other shops take 2 hours to tune cars. Obviously there is going to be a price difference of several hundred dollars associated with the two different tuning shops, purely on labour/dyno time. I won't venture to say which one is better, because I don't want to start a shit fight. For more "light tune" cars, perhaps 2 hours on the dyno is adequate... But no matter what modifications you do to your car, it all comes down to the tuning to make the most of those mods. Tuning will make or break a car. Quite literally.

He took it for a 10 minute drive to check for detonation and see how power delivery could be improved on the road, yes... Unfortunately my clutch was slipping by the end of the day, so he couldn't do the final runs at high boost... Hence he wasn't able to check it for detonation at high boost... He told me to take the car back when I got the new clutch in so he could finish the tune. Thursday was the first time I ran the car at high boost since I got it tuned, so I'll be taking it back to him when I get the chance.

God I hate dyno days at Unigroup. Biggest waste of time EVER... They don't seem to understand the idea of a dyno day... It literally takes them about 30 mins to do each car, which means you stand around for AGES all day just waiting to see a few cars run... A dyno day isn't meant to be a full discussion on what mods you've done, and how your car could be improved, and what mods they would suggest, and basically a general chit-chat for 30 mins... YOU GET THE CAR ON, YOU RUN IT 2 or 3 TIMES, THEN YOU TAKE YOUR CAR OFF... NEXT! 10 mins maximum. Can I suggest CRD or C&V for dyno days? They seem to run them much more efficiently. edit: plus both CRD and C&V have 4WD dynos to cater for our GTR owners

I had my car tuned by Jim @ CRD. He charges double what Ric Shaw does, but then again, my car was on the dyno the *ENTIRE DAY*. It was on the dyno from about 10am till about 4pm, it was first given an extremely comprehensive tune at low boost, then checked at high boost... All the time, Jim was writing values down on his clipboard to compare how they affected the car. This took perhaps 3 hours all up including giving the car a rest now and again... Then adjustable cam gears were installed and tuned, which took another 3 or so hours... My car started pinging at full boost last thursday at Eastern Creek, Jim happened to be there and told me to bring it back so he can have a look at it and tune it a little more. This is the reason why you need to book at least a week in advance for a CRD tune... He only books one or two cars a day to get full tunes done.

Nope... He took heaps! Here they are: http://www.jpmphoto.com.au/Galleries/aaron..._2003/index.htm

Maybe he was busy taking photos of the bikes?

It's true

pfft... Pathetic. My Proton could do better!

I have a twin plate dildo... It's a bit worn out, maybe 60% meat left. Make me an offer.

link to the thread on the other forum?

I'm sure Dan didn't mean anything by that Carlo... But I agree with him... It would have been better to put the newer drivers into group... Perhaps Group B or C, so they could go for a ride with people who have had a bit of track time at EC, without missing out on one of their sessions. By the same token, said "experienced" people could take shotgun in other cars to point out apexes and the proper lines without losing one of their sessions also. By placing us all in the same Group, they effectively stopped the above from happening, as people understandably didn't really want to miss out on one of their sessions. Especially with a half-day, where you only get a handful. Might be something to mention to the organisers next time Dan?

Oops!

ARGH!!! Please remove my plates from those photos!!!! Guys, all I ask is if you take photos of my car, please photoshop the plates out... I spend half my life emailing people asking them to remove plates from their websites...

Awesome day guys... Unfortunately the Gods deemed it necessary to give a little downpour at the start of every Group A session Had a ball as always! TEAM TRACKDAY FOREVER!!!!!

I sure as hell hope it doesn't rain... My D01Js were spastic in the wet at Wakefield... I'm not sure I'm brave enough to put their unpredictability through their paces at twice the speeds at EC http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN10030.txt http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.loop.shtml