Roy

Yep, in Singas...living the dream Or more to the point sweating my ass off and paying a fortune for beer

I will give you 30k for it Looking damn good! Thats very reasonable considering what you are ending up with and testament to the work you and the rest of Team Tas has been volunteering on the car.

If you are looking for a wind tunnel why not ask the frustrated engineer that wishes he got to live out his automotive dreams rather then sit in a clean room making drugs in Singapore There is a reason why the clever young punks at Monash University have been doing pretty well at Formula SAE http://www.monashmotorsport.com/ Its because they have access to the same place that Holden and Ford use ... http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/research/stateofart.html Of course you are in the wrong state, but long term i would be sure something could be arranged since Monash and their Formula SAE guys seem to enjoy great support from the engineering faculty and could sell the exercise to the faculty as a final year project for some of the students. Other then that you may just have to go and throw a smoke machine over the car while doing some straight line testing at Willowbank to observe the airflow and get some potentiometers and, strain gauges/load cells onto the car to start measuring downforce. Rip the stuff off to save weight and complexity when racing, if you can live with the few kgs of cable and instrumentation then you can do that too You are probably all over it, but anyway, for those that dont have access to CFD software, wind tunnels etc etc then there is plenty of good rule of thumb reading - Competition Car Aerodynamics: A Practical Handbook - Competition Car Downforce: A Practical Guide There is also the fact that Spectrum starting building Formula Fords in the 90s (maybe very early 00s??? ) I dont know how many FF championships they have won but its the only real chassis that springs to mind as being locally manufactured. http://www.borlandracing.com/ Dont know if they do any aero development, but????

Like every car in pro isnt worth a bucket because the basic building blocks of suitable shell and cage, gearbox, brakes and engine are simply not cheap hardware! Its no sin, its amazing that they are that committed Anyway, people have different flags to fly or whatever, i know i am the worlds greatest driver when i dont have to put anything on the line, be it time, money, the car i have just spend 3 years building etc. Or knowing i will never be proven wrong, "I would be so much quicker if i was driving that/their car".... you hear it all the time and its very rarely true. Except if i was given the keys to Snowies R34, i would be so much faster at binning that car then him. Fancy a track car that hasnt enjoyed the simple pleasure that is eating armco after 7 years of track work

Not knowing what tyres you run, what rotors, and what weight of the car is etc. I would think CCX may do the job and nowhere near as noisy or hard on rotors as the CC-R

Now the next night your dad isnt home we need to swap out the engine and brakes...what else does he have that we need

You are better off going for wider rims to increase the track and throw in some upper adjustment to get the camber you need. Changing the lower control arm length means you may end up with bump steer issues and need to change the tie rod length and location etc. I dont know to be honest, but suspect that unless you are in for the whole hog with testing, then with suspesion less is often more. I want to mod lots of my suspension and have a few plams, to that i can drop the ride height whilst still having neat std geometry...lol but i reckon it will be a disaster and my car is destined to look like a pansy with its std ride height

Any more pics of the camel toe R32 GTR? Pretty awesome photography work above too...thanks for posting the pics up!

Gee, sounds like somebody's girlfriend left him for an Australian! No reason to attack a car that is effectively a privateer effort being driven by its owner, who happens to be the same guy building it. Hmm, how do i go about posting on Speedhunters

It kind of is. At vic tracks at least it has th general pace of a 996 GT3 over a lap. How many laps would you have to do in 12 hours, couldnt be more then 2 or 3 would it

80K? Easy, i will just sell my R32 ... errr

There were radio calls more rain in 10minutes, so can understand why if you are up the front you give it a lap or two to see what the conditions were doing. RBR have made worse calls

Yellows mean catch the car in front of you !

Actually, the ESPN coverage picked up the discussions and were talking about how Button had to pit when he did. He had cooked his inters and was about to start going backwards. His cooked tyres made the gamble worthwhile so took the punt. So it wasnt inspired, it was like Luis in Monaco when he clipped the wall and got a flat in the damp. Who would have thought at the time his clipping of armco and having to pit was going to put him on the gun strategy through blind luck. Ditto Button yesterday, he chewed out his tyres, pitted as a gamble and was rewarded. So to me its what i would call a bit of good luck

Gee wizz, the GTR looks mint, but so too the tall blonde

Lewis showed amazing skill and judgement when he drove right up the ass of Alonso in was it Bahrain in 2008? To the point where everyone was screaming murder and Alonso had brake tested Lewis....only when Alonso said rubbish and pulled the data it showed that Lewis was jsut a retard who drove straight into the back of a car he was following on a straight, wasnt even under brakes. As others have said, driving into the back of a car in pitlane! I love how people are attacking Webber. Two of the last WDCs drive into people all the time. Remember Kimi punting Force Indias and STRs for sport. The second move today was clumsy, but thats what happens when two cars lose mid corner speed and you lose front aero. I watched the ESPN coverage which has Alex Yoong and Gary Anderson...as opposed to the BBC coverage the commentary is nowhere near as biased...and they both claimed racing incident. They actually said the earlier braking dual was silly by Webber being on the inside slippery line and soudl have known to give up the fight in the interest of not compromising his overall race strategy . But the clash was a straight up racing incident. Gary Anderson actually said Webber had to run the risk of crowding himself with Alonso and Hamilton...two laps to go and everything to gain...hero or zero time and was just one of those things.

If it bwasnt for Webs anf Homoton then it would have been a snorefest. Even with the variable weather. Schuey has some work to do

Sux that Button won, the hack couldnt even get out of the first corner without spinning Schuey and Alonso. He had to take out Alonso and have Vettel retire to get his hnd out race win

How silly is it that Button could go 50 laps on the one set of tyres, ditto Kubz and the Fezz. Bridgestone obviously chose far too durable a tyre for the weekend. Vettel must feel gutted

It was two laps to go, with a quicker car and he and Ham had the opp of getting two or so places...it wa good to see them all having a go! It was a nice chop!

Schuey ...

So, what is going to happen to tyres in the last 10 laps? Surely Hamp and Mark will cut through them like cops through bone

Drop your cocks and grab your socks. Its race time! Will be an RBR 1-2...no idea who will finish 3rd. High attrition rate and Rubens to push through for 4th

I think it would be great to see a bit of a shake up of the V8 Supercars, but seriously, as far as racing goes...its very good racing. I think its just trendy to hang shit on the V8s because everyone thinks Nissans rule I loved the variety of cars but really, for years it was a matter of which Sierra was going t win...then Mark or Jim.... The racing was actually pretty bad. The first round under the current regs at Amaroo was a revelation, a brilliant round and i think after years of pretty good racing people forget jsut how bad the Grp A racing was

Slow down already!