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Try the local BOC shop. But a caddy with the tig attachment will be more than $1k.

Have a look at the photos for the front page of the South West Times - yesterday. Then read the CAMS media release below. Then make up your own mind. CAMS unaware of plans to bring international events to Bunbury Circuit CAMS Media Release 22 Feb 2007 CAMS has noted with interest various media reports out of Western Australia suggesting that the Bunbury International Circuit, developed and operated by Perth International Motorsport Management (PIMM), will host a number of international racing events in 2007 including rounds of Japan's Formula Nippon Championship and the Japanese Super GT Series. CAMS, the peak governing body of motor sport in Australia as delegated by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), would normally be involved in discussions to host such events within Australia. "Any legitimate international competition within Australia can only be organised under the auspices of the FIA and in this case, through their sole delegated authority for motor sport in Australia, CAMS," said Bob Glindemann, Acting Chief Executive Officer of CAMS. "In this scenario the accepted protocol for the organisation developing the track should be to contact CAMS outlining their proposed plans for the event. An application for a track licence would normally follow and CAMS would then arrange inspections to ensure that all the correct approvals have been sought and that all necessary safety standards are in place." CAMS has also been in communication with its Japanese equivalent body, the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) which confirm that they've been in contact with the management of both Formula Nippon and the Japanese Super GT Series to ensure that they have no intention of running their events in Western Australia outside of the FIA's international authority. "At this stage, CAMS has received no correspondence from PIMM regarding the proposed events," concluded Glindemann. ------- END For further information please contact: Chris Terpos, Communications Coordinator, CAMS Tel: (03) 9593 7777 FOR MEDIA INFORMATION PURPOSES - NO REGULATORY VALUE

Well given that crunching synchros can sometimes confuse the damn things into thinking it has a knock anything is possible. Nonetheless don't go looking for excuses. Check your knock values either on a dyno or log them properly. It is not worth an engine...

to me the one that sits on top of the cam covers doesnt do sh#t, has no internal baffles, and is just hollow.. so wtf does it do?!?. What it does is stop there being a direct path from the cam cover to your catch can. If you have too much oil in the head & turn left you end up with too much oil in your catch can. So you plumb the lines into the front of the "useless" cylinder & thereby prevent the oil from inundating your can.

Well having just bought another one from Japan I can tell you that late model non accident/repaired cars are getting really hard to find. So putting aside the number of them in Australia presently, yeah I believe that good ones will be getting harder & harder to find. Whether or not that means they will get more expensive is a whole different question.

Just infront of the passenger side shock tower.

Yes he rang & it is all good.

Well I paid up front. I figured that was the arrangement.... Josh should have all my details for postage etc.

I hope that is mine?

Fixing it up or shaving with the razor blades they made from what was left of it?

Becuase there is another path that the oil has to wind its way around before it arrives at the catch can. And, yeah I mean the rocker cover type.

Skaife had one turn turtle at the AGP in 1990. I have never seen a picture of it so if anyone has one could they please post it?

I thought Freddie sold atleast one of them overseas.

Speaking of tailshafts, which year at Bathurst did the tail shaft of Brocks car join John Cleland in the cockpit? I remember him saying words to the effect of "what the f*ck?" over the racecam & then him shielding his eyes from the lumps of shrapnel flying about as the thing slowly beat itself to death on the way down Conrod. The best story about Cleland was from Bathurst a couple of years ago. His co-driver over hydrated himself before his stint. Not being able to get out & go for a road side p!ss meant he had to relieve himself in his race seat. Not much fun for Cleland when he got in. Even less fun when he had to change back into his wet racesuit a couple of hours later (BJR were to tight to buy two suits for him) & so he wound Kim Jones up nicely telling him he wasn't going out to drive in a piss stained suit. The early VP's had very ordinary front spoilers. They kept flying off at the first contact or minor offroad excursion. They got it fixed half way through the '93 season (plus they also got a proper undertray) which then gave rise to endless homologation squabbles about front downforce that just wouldn't go away. Just as an aside the prototype car that Dickie Johnson had built for the V8 regs (& never ran) ended up over here in WA. It was converted to an EL & used as a display car for a number of years. It is still running in the red & yellow colours.

Not particularly, no. I just think that the interest of the sport should be put ahead of the immediate short term interests of any one particular team.

Just ring Whiteline & ask them. They don't bite.

"That's why Tega HALVES their practice days, so other (2 car) teams get TWICE as many practice days." I was of the understanding that the four car HRT/HSVDT got the same number of practice days as the FPV/TKR mob which in turn is the same as the two car teams. From memory it was six test days for two cars. The budgetary poo fight will be interesting to watch this year. Roland Dane doesn't much like it.... Holden only ever got itself into this mess after Tom Walkinshaw went bankrupt & had to sell HRT in a hurry. Holden wasn't allowed to own it so they had to turn to Skaife and the Kelly family.

Worth getting. Damn right. Personally I would look for the facelifted version from mid 87 onwards.

Well you could look at the Stone Brother record. Or Dick Johnson racing. Or Gary Rogers. Or Larry Perkins. Or simply point to the fact the rules infringement shit fights seemingly involve HRT more than half the time & everyone else added together the rest. Point out the bits that are imported. The tyres. The engine blocks. Rims. Diffs. Brake calipers (only now that Alcon won the contract) Not much else... Overwhelmingly the gear is both world class & of Australian manufacture.

My dodgy memory tells me they had a VN Commode kicking around in '92. That was the car that stood in for the Gt-R. But my memory is pretty dodgy. Forbes first proper V8 (group 3A as it was briefly known) was a big budget effort at the time. I can remember Cromption talking it up. They ran well at Bathurst until Gibbs stuck it in the wall. I think they may have converted their older VN to the new formula also. Probably ran it as a second car in the enduroes. PB's effort in '93 was pretty much a busted arse outfit. His previous deal with Perkins fell apart (remember LP bitch slapping Tomas Mazera in the pits? Gold) & there wasn't alot of money for the cars. I think Crompton signed for Brock in maybe '92 after LP had left. But there was rarely a car for him to drive, let alone a good one. May have my years mixed up, however. Aahh, Captain Chaos!!!! Missed the '93 ATCC at Wanneroo due to having a bastard of an exam the next day.

It means it is a metric thread, 12 millimetres in size with a pitch of 1.25mm's.

For my 10 cents worth. There are two issues with RB26's. Firstly the usual one with what we could loosely call 'fumes'. Secondly a more problematic one with the volume of oil retained in the head of the motor at high rpm. Now the first of these is not a big problem. Just about any catch can worth its salt will fix this problem & help stop oil build up in the I/C. The second is more problematic. RB26's have a well known issue which, put simply, means that there is alot (too much) oil retained in the head of the motor when it runs at high rpm for a longish period of time. What can and does happen is when cornering this oil floods your newly installed catch can & you end up with a massive mess that takes ages to clean up. The style of catch can infont of the breathers can help prevent this from happening. Just something to think about.

Forbes ran a VL Commodore before the GT-R. During 1992 in the midst of a poo fight about the weight the GT-R's had to carry he briefly reverted to a Commodore. Mark Gibbs was the main driver with Rohan Onslow backing him up in the enduroes. When the Group A formula died he ran a VP Commodore for Neil Crompton in GIO colours - '93 season. The team was subsequently bought by Wayne Gardener to become Coca Cola racing.

In anything cheating is just cheating. Doesn't matter if you get caught or not. And here was I thinking HSVDT didn't have any fans left after the crap they pulled at PI. I'm sure TEGA have only a finite amount of things they can threaten HRT with. I guess exclusion is the biggest stick.

I reckon Gary Rogers has a good point. What hope do all the other "privateer" Holden teams have is HRT/HSV are running a four car team & monopolising the money & the factory financing? the sport lacks diversity in makes so it needs diversity of teams. Having multiple car factory teams will destroy that & return V8 racing to the bad old days like the late nineties. It should be about a level playing field, not a benifit for HRT. Still cheating is something that the HRT & particularly TW are familiar with.