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the grumpy man yes! bp are going to a lot of trouble to ensure there is plenty of 98 kicking about speaking of race suits, i picked a very cool spare one yesterday. as a very generious gift from a mate i got a brand spankers super shiny mclaren vodafone sparco! its the perfect pose suit in silver/white! and life only gets better as i get the evo back tomorrow from being caged... woohoo!

he's a party animal

ebc aren't terrible, but you need to pick the right pad for the car... i've seen red and yellow completely melt one car, but work awesome on another. will check pricing damo... there are obviously different compounds to reduce the bite but still work well. what weight is your car and how much power?

the most progressive pad you will find is pagid. perfect package for gtst would be pagid black front and pagid orange rear, but you need to allow almost 1k for pads alone, plus install some ducting to the front. hawk come on too hard and too quick and will result in you flat spotting tyres if pushing hard without abs until you get the hang of them. they will give you a good 15 laps at symmons on standard rotors though, and after that the front rotors run out of heat range and you'll boil fluid. any ceramic compound would be good at the track in a skyline with standard brakes thanks to the small rotor size and you'll get them upto temp quick... but last thing you'd want for a hillclimb as they will struggle to work on the first hair pin at collinsvale... i left some ebc yellow ceramics in the gtr the last time i ran it there and they were terrible at both hair pins, even when i blocked up the ducting as they just werent warm enough. for a cheap option if you didn't do more than four laps of symmons or seven of basky is bendix ulitmate... cheap too and available everywhere. they'll put up with runing that number of laps around 62sec laps with ducting into the rotor veins (ditch the backing plate). bms sell pagid, ferrodo, endless, project mu and hawk... but the trick is finding the right pad for the car, the driver, the brake package and purpose the car is being used for.

phat mr30 - currently changing servers so everything is running on .com.au for the short term... although the new motor sport part pages don't seem to be running. sav_man - it was doing some big drifts at the shoot so should be good reading, even if only for the pics!

darren elphinstone from up near burnie is doing it for me. if you need a bonnet, skirts, boot, wing, gt2860r-7 turbos (top condition) or another N1 engine (low k, being refreshened right now) have got it all in stock!!

putting together a little evo 3 further to the rx7 at the moment, its a gsr not an rs hence the sound deadener always wanted one of these classic shape evos since driving a mates around baskerville about ten years ago need to finish it off for a mate to borrow to use at targa tasmania this year so its all systems go and should get it back from the cage fabricator in a week or so using it to showcase some of benson motorsports specialst tarmac rally products soon to be launched and up until last weekend it was a bog stock road car

ffs so demanding!! there will be a full feature on it in one of the major mags in a week or two!

Its unlikely the SP will see showrooms on mass. Just five RX8 SP have been built (inlcuding this car)... a sixith is currently in the build and Mazda will build additional cars if ordered, but their not cheap! The car is very cool, they're fully trimmed around the cage and they keep all the comforts of stereo and a/c just like the RX7 SP did.

evo cage... could use more bars, but should be nice and strong

dane - rx7 has been pushed to the side for a little bit, but should be running within four weeks though... busy getting the evo ready for tt as a guy wants to borrow and run it! snowy - commos are so twp, its all about shiney new things for tt! sav_man - there is some special tool that measures air volume, not sure how it works, but far from the crude screwdriver with a pen mark method seen at some events.

yeah that the engine was checked... weeks later in another city!! capacity checks will take place this year... there's technology coming out the a hole this year with the tyre data-dotting, fuel testing and volumetric measurement stuff! no glenny you say, maybe you boys should just have some patience... brap brap

yeah as they are flush fit on the surface of the bodywork most states accept these as road legal. bensonmotorsports.com was the source for the woo... always in stock!

I get what you’re saying Snowy, but such a move will result in the reduction of classic entries… we’ surveyed the competitor base and that was the feedback in recent years. If I had the choice of cars to run to have a crack at winning Early Modern (1991-2002 including 80’s 4WDs), I've pick an 1989 GTR Nismo... under the option rules I could run a nice thick radiator, an oil cooler and 18s, with a good cage, brakes and well set up suspension it would have every bit of a R34 on performance and weigh less, plus it’d be a decent match for a 996 Turbo or GT2.

in a dry event they dont have a great advantage, but in the pasted owned the rest of the classic cars when it gets wet. glenney put that delta in the top three on the odd stage before it let go.

Hot topic, I love it!! Years ago (maybe five I think) the tail end of Classic used to be 1981 (Cat 6), Modern started at 1982 (Cat 7) and Cat 8 started at 1990. Cat 7 used to get a raw deal running against the latest models (993/996 Turbo and R33/34 GTR) and very few ran in this group as the years went by as they in were cars like heavy injected 911s and underpowered Alfa GTVs and 944s. As we know the late eighties saw a series of developments that included more main stream cars being turbocharged and 4WD being introduced... therefore this was seen as the next technological step that until recently with really good ABS, traction and stability control we still exist in. Since its alignment with Classic competition Cat 7 (1982-1990) has bloomed, so we got that bit right! Couple of years ago we noticed that Cat 8 could become what Cat 7 used to be, so we considered aligning Cat 8 with Classic, but in the interest of maintaining a genuinely classic (read: older car) field we though the best way to embrace the early Playstation generation Evo/STi/GTR era as a separate group and so we introduced a new competition in Early Modern. Importantly we needed this competition to keep a buffer from the late model jets like 997 GT3/2 and GTR. The plan is that post-1990 2 and 4WD cars would run together and not moved into classic as they get older, but as we do now and have done for years move any 4WD turbo from Cat 7 into Cat 8... including Ford RS200s and Lancia Delta's like previous. If someone chooses to, a Cat 8 car can run in Cat 9 (Modern) as Matt Close did, but a 996 Turbo can run in Early Modern if the owner wants too.

The life of early 4WD cars was given an injection of life with the new Early Modern competition as seen at Targa Wrest Point and soon to be seen at Targa Tasmania. The number of early to mid 90s turbo and 4WD turbo cars is on the rise again thanks to the number of import race/rally cars entering the country now not having to do battle with late model Lambos, 911s and GT-Rs. I don't see 4WD cars entering classic, unless you want to run a Jensen! The technology gap between 2WD carby and 4WD fuel injected turbo is just too great. There will always be wild V8s and superfast 911s in classic, but the base car is still pretty ordinary… in comparison a GT-R, Evo or STi are space shuttles!

For Sale One pair of Garrett GT2860R-7 turbos Designed for response and very hard to source new right now (three month wait at the moment). These turbos have done almost 1100km of tarmac rally use and 3200km of road use in two years when bought new from GCG. These have been used on a professionally maintained R33 that has no expense spared on keeping it fresh running Motul fluids. These turbos have produced 330kWs on a safe tune with a Dynologic dyno and won its last national event! Price is $2,500. Freight will be about $60 to Eastern States PM me This is a private sale

The GTR doesn't fit the criteria for PRC and it'd be a dog with restrictors, but who cares... in the interest of getting the event off the ground eligibility shouldn't matter too much anyway. What’s the entry fee? I'm keen to sending either the Evo or RX7 north during 2010

i remember EVERY startline and most stop points asking us if there were donuts in the boot with the 32... and the year i had brock's monaro for a week after the event and everyone kept asking if i was ok for fuel... makes me think all tasmanian's are just total smart arses! thanks to twp we're fresh out of monit's and awaiting restock sorry tim else would shoot you one up (they do just plug into evo). when you get closer to wanting a hans device let me know, bms can supply and the price is always right! rx7 progress... inlcuding gtr rims.

i noticed a few people using navmans and tomtoms at tt last year. i guess they might be a good idea... if you're nav has a habit of falling off... can't help but think of it as a distraction i could do without sitting on the scary side (not that I'll be doing that again anytime soon)! today was the first day in months i spend tinkering with the rx7, its getting there and might even start by the end of the month! other than that its early evo central

well what a huge weekend, congratulations to many, but condolences to most here! although some talk of goat tracks of leg two and how rough they were, i spent much of today with naomi tillet from the vip petfoods gtr team who said that they found the stages glenlusk and peleverata some of the most enjoyable of the event from a genuine challenge point of view and interestingly they set the fastest times over these stages in the 1750kg barge! as a side note, how good did this car want to sound! it is a battle to keep on top of road works, although we have a great relationship with all councils, the cygnet stage issues were simply an internal mis-communication within that council. when i drove over sections of road such as peleverata and longley they did show signs of reacting to the warm day, but conditions were that same for everyone. the attrition rate was about what i would have expected and many of the vehicles that failed to finish simply suffered mechanical problems, not crashes. that said, although its referred to has a mini-targa, the simple fact is that targa wrest point was a genuine sprint which required maximum attack on all stages with total focus on geevestona and tahune to do well. the concept of introducing early modern has proved a winner, with many people now inspired to enter the proper amateur competition that is hard fought without the need of a half million dollar car and its nice to see non-professional drivers filling the podium. so well done to dave ayers (r33) and adam poole (r34) who give rep to nissan. 400r... what a good idea i have to give a huge congrats to my wife kylie and her driver kim barwick who came third in classic... the a9x was apparently a very different office to the comfort of my previous gtr... go figure! great to meet you snowy, sorry we didn't talk more. next time i'm in melbs you'll get a call. the really tragic casualty of the weekend was my phone, i left it on the roof of the car and although it held onto the light bar it committed suicide after about 600m!... the tragic thing about this? its the second one i've done this to in some many weeks! ps. james... nice left 3!!

We're at the business end now! Scrutiny began tonight and continues tomorrow. Some last minute mis-communications have resulted in the Cygnet stage being chopped up pretty heavily by council contractors... I have been assured by council all will be good, but a visit to the stage late tomorrow arvo will seal its fate. Turns out I'll be on the course now... I've got flashing lights, a siren and borrowed car to play with !!

that's awesome!

Hey guys There is an opportunity for two people to people to be a part of the scrutiny team for Targa Wrest Point this Friday. The role is for a couple of people to oversee the weighing every car in the field and simply recording the weight. It’s a great opportunity to get up close with the teams and cars... including the three R35's in the event, as well as Andrew Richmond's (SAU - Snowman) replica Z-Tune R34! You will be provided with lunch, drinks, event cap and a huge pat on the back!! If you are keen please just drop me a line on [email protected] or PM. Cheers Stuart