Roy

Yeh, I just sold my cars and am taking up ant farming

Can someone comment on how these tyres would be viewed by WRC Club http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Hankook&tireModel=Ventus+Z214&sidewall=Blackwall&partnum=74ZR7Z214C51&tab=Sizes Half cage acceptable for my car? Full cage required?

I met Bernie on the weekend and he was good enough to spend 5mins giving me some tips, was much appreciated. Just did a youtube search to see if I could watch some vids of his calls and FARK ME! I never really appreciated just how good Glenney was, and how composed and calm Bernies calls are Towards the end SO MANY 10 calls! How the hell does he keep pace Jesus Christ...another one. The top guys need to be committed!

Awesome work on the 10!!!!! Huge effort

Get in touch with Risking in the fabrication settion. he is away at the moment. He does about the best half cage you can get. I had a Brown Davis, looked at Bond etc and his cage fits the pillars far tighter and are better made. Not to say the other companies cant do a similar job, but for the money Risking does give you more cage and better quality for what others generally charge a little more. But more then that they are just well made and engineered cages. He is in Sydney but his bolt in cages are all by jig so doesnt need your car to build it if you want to install yourself

Well, it is what is for the time being. You can still watch the Grp A cars today...lol years later the results are still pretty much the same with the GTRs winning Will be interesting to see how Kelly Racing goes. How much Perkins engineering remains in the DNA of the team? I know Larry is off doing his light aircraft electropnics thing/ but the team engineers etc still Perkins folks? If Perkins is the behind the scenes guy developing the Nissan for 12 months then I am optimistic they will be up the pointy end

So Mitsubishi who dont even have enough money to have local assembly of cars or enough money to keep Ralliart going in a sport they have a proud and successful history in were really going to get behind a saloon series? BS! It was never genuine interest and the stories were from Cockring himself...had nothing to do with Holden and Ford kickign up a fuss to exclude them. Re Toyota, same thing....Toyota were itnerested, Cockring happy to bring them in and Holden and Ford kicked up a fuss with questions regarding how their inclusion was going to affect their need to spend money. Holden and Ford have been mindful of their spend on the series for years and another manufacturers inclusion has always meant that in order to be competitive they may have to up their investment...something they may not be able to do. At least with COTF the spend isnt such a concern anymore....so dont think Ford, in particular Holden are too worried about the imapct another manufacturer will have on their need to spend money. Its not about racing, its about preserving the industry where there are a few thousand paid jobs...if Holden, Ford, Nissan etc cant afford to be involved, it will end up like ARC where nobody does it full time or gets paid. LOL, too tired to type...so being lazy and short. Sorry LOL, mind you I have now posted a whole load of shit in this thread so cant be too tired

Did what I post read like I was saying they "saved" Australian tin top racing. Certainly wasnt my attentionb. But if you are the only one left at the table wanting to play....then you shouldnt be blamed for having the others banned. Sure they pushed for the series they got....but their place at the table was strengthened by nobody else being around Re the 2L series with non factory, used BTCC cars running around???? Volvo had a small investment in the car run by Brock, but it was a used chassis from UK. The BMWs were not a factory team, it was Frank Gardner/Morris/Longhurst money and imported OS cars with paper thin support from BMW. There was technical support but no money from what I understand. Ford and the Mondeo? No factory involvement. Roger and the Nissan Primera for Steve Richards...no factory support. Alfa for Steve Richards, any factory support? Nope. About the only guy with a level of genuine factory support was Audi and Brad Jones...and again they were imported cars. So, understand the Supertourers were around....but with no factory support and imported used cars I dont think they were ever going to be a force to be reckoned with as Australia's car manufacturers didnt even get behind it...not even those not involved in V8s! So more than saying Ford and Holden saved tin top racing (again, was not the picture I tried to paint) the lack of support by Volvo, Nissan, Ford, Holden-Vauxhall, Alfa meant we were pretty sure the V8s were going to remain the stronger category

Nobody got hurt? So you say! If we had of been racing on Sunday I would not have been drunk at 4am and had to defend Rugby Union honour by wrestling Chris~ I am pretty sure i came out the better of the two of us...just Yep, I didn't see or feel it coming at the time....and watching the vid is the same. Just one of those unfortunate things

I just dont like the term banned. Fact is Nissan had proven what it set out to do with the GTR. They had no interest in locally developing the R33 or funding a team for another series. It meant Australia could have taken the Grp A regulations and kept them, but there were no new cars being built by any manufacturers interested in racing them. So, Holden and Ford put their hand up and said they would continue racing....so with FIA canning Grp A rules and country's looking to create their own series to suit their own markets....Australia put together a rule book for V8s. If Nissan were interested in fundign 2-3 teams, along with BMW and Toyota etc then the rules would not have come out the way they did. When you are the only people at the table it makes complete sense that the rules are made to suit your cars. Hence, we got V8 sedans and fact is in their first season they provided far better racing then Grp A had for years. The only good Grp A races was Winton and Mallala when the M3s mixed it up with the GTR. At Lakeside Dick normally did well as well as Perkins in his VL (ditto Symmons Plains, Larry normally went well when he wheeled his car out of the garage for the Tassie round) So saying BMW were banned is a paper thin statement. BMW hung around due to Fank Gardner and the money that the Longhurst and Morris families brought to the team. Not BMW money. Nissan didnt sell anything in Australia worth racing...what car in their line up was remotely capable of racing in a series? So, shits me that Ford and Holden get blamed for stepping up and funding teams to go racing. Hell, Percy and Mezera should be commended for getting HRT back from a 4 races a year team to a full time two car team! Put another way...motorsport requires manufacturer support/involvement! No point comparing IPRA to top level tin top racing as there would only be a very few cars out there that are even for sale at the lcoal dealership. Fact is top level tin top racing needs to have cars that at least represent or look like the current cars for sale... if Holden and Ford did not put in for teams funding, the series would be poorer for it

Yeh, but Longhurst was allowed to run lighter, more revs/compression and latest aero updates to get him closer to the V8s. He was nto 2L FIA spec in 93. I think at Sandown and Bathurst the two classes ran together. And yep, was Ellery in the ex Seton Sierra less turbos. Was a dog of a thing without its hp. M3 demolished it in the suspension dept

And the NA Sierra that ran up against them. They didnt run in the same grid though. I watched the Amaroo round in 93 and recall that they had their own race.

I went backwards with Apexi 260/8.8mm cams so removed them after hours on the dyno and some disappointing results from the test drive. They did sound tough though So I would hold off on cams and go with the oil cooler. The TD06-20G and RB20 will never have the response of some of the other combos, but it will be a reliable grunter able to run 12.2-12.8sec qtr miles so still a respectably quick car. I would prefer it over the other options you have but the real test should be for you to go for a drive or get a steer of a car with a similar setup to see if that's the direction you really want to run.

The important thing that came out of the weekend was that Rugby Union men are tougher then AFL. After hours of debate we cleared the living room and wrestled! Union won!

And its good to know that you can get that result. But if you are thinking about the setup Status posted....first post was SR20 made 400rwkws on a 25G compressor. Great to know..but the 25G was only 30% of the story, the thing was a stroker SR running E85. E85 means the setup jumps from a 340-350rwkws setup to 390-400rwkws setup. So the take away is the trick to that result is to run E85...not run a 25G. A few people ran around Vic tracks for a while said BS to the fact that I was running a std RB20 with a 20G and doing what it was doing. As soon as a few people bought the same setup plenty of people repeated the result. If I had of been playing silly buggers with how I made the power or how much I made, I know of at 3 people who would have been gutted to have spent their hard earned to get a inferior result. So that's all I am saying...make sure the whole story is told, not just the 400rwkws SR20 part. I know I am going to be gutted if this 73HTA doesnt work as per what the yanks have been posting as it will be another case of handing over good money for a kick in the teeth because of people posting BS on the net...lol "who would have thunk it"

Just so I understand, when you say 400kws you mean at the engine, on PULP 98, on E85, at the wheels etc? I woudl have only classified a 25G as a 350rwkws turbo. That would be on a well built and tuned engine with a gob full of boost. On E85 I suppose you can add ~40rwkws. I think that the bigger H turine will only bag you another ~15rwkws This thread is a good read, but every 3-4 pages I am Captain Negativity as I think the numbers that get thrown around are rather dangerous and may see people only ending up disappointed when for whatever reason they cant match what they read. 400kws out of 25G wheel, 260 out of 18G wheel, 300rwkws out of 20G wheels are not "common" results (IMO)

Agree, trying to find gains when everything is so controlled is a difficult task.

LOL, i selfishly want to see someone else buy one and do a good back to back with their current Kando turbo

What ECU and any photos of the underside/rails etc. Any damage? Are they std shocks and bushes through out?

I suspect the TD06L2-20G would be the go. Depends if you are using std or aftermarket manifolds.

What master sizes are you after fella? Will see if I can grab an ex Supercar for you, complete with carbon foot shroud etc

lol, Yep, difference is about 30million a year

I am holding off on going back to the std inlet as the new turbos may benefit from the extra flow up high in the revs at higher boost....the place where the Plazmaman is clearly better then std. If all the fuss over billet wheels hold true then I may get back to what I used to have through the mid range with the std inlet. And yes, I have looked at the EFR turbos. But frankly until they are readily available and stop failing I am going to keep my money in my pocket. Plus, half the fun is playing with these things and seeing if they work or not. I trust that there are going to be dozens of results with the more expensive EFR turbos so will understand the merits of them. Once I am through this round of testing if none set my heart racing I think I have found another setup to trial which should be good for a punchier 280rwkws. Thats the whole point of this testing...how to make the punchiest 280rwks possible More than the turbo tinkering. keen to get my car back and further play with the suspension in it. Should be a little nicer with some recent changes, nothing huge but will allow me to move on knowing that suspension is as good as its going to get for a street car...with some little trick bits that nobody else has

I am off the cans. Need to fit into my swanky Gulf Racing FIA suit...so need to lose that 20kgs I have been talking about losing for a while

From what I previously read about other manufacturer involvement when Toyota, Chrysler and Mercedes were supposedly sniffing around was that they can run quad cam engines etc, but will need to be tuned to be comparable to the current 5Ls. I say let them run their late model engines with the same rev limit and compression ratio restrictions. Will be real interesting to see if a multivalve engine does the job any different to a pushrod with years and years of development with a fixed CR and 7,500rev limit