sav man

Brad knows how to build good engines

I've busted one of the alloy block to filter things before, they are very brittle and easy to put a hairline crack in. The old girl has a nice engine note

I didn't try as the car won't be ready. But don't you need a current entrant to invite you to get accepeted?

After the shit show that was Targa I lost all motivation for a while. I'll put the big block in soon and replace the Haltech with a Motec. I don't recon I'll make it to the mainland till next year, but challenge bathurst does look cool.

Could you 3d print a new part for the flap?

I do owe Golly some Bacardy and will have to get round to pulling the engine out soon.

I'm going to try, if enough of us get together we'll have a better chance. I think only 14% of the event was run

No idea at this stage. I would like for them to go back to AASA. The 200k limit is a joke, as all the incidents have been well under 200k. This year was the first time I was checking my speedo on a stage, as I don't fully trust that the rev limiter won't overrun. The problem is more when a car comes off the road that the GPS can't get a signal out cause the car is upsidedown or the antenna has been ripped off. It then relys on car to car comunication, which can also fail depending on distance from the road and antenna damage. I think there needs to be a failsafe that if a unit stops talking back to HQ that a stop and look for car instruction is sent to following cars at the last known location. There is probably better ways, but the discussion needs to be had. When the supplier tell you to put loctight on the bolts that join the box and bellhouse you should listen to them. Bolts came out and jammed the flywheel then went out of th side of the bellhouse, not the box thankfully. We had the stuff to put the std box back in if the event had continued. The furture will be interesting, as lots of people were running this year just cause of the 30th and wern't planning on running next year because of the restrictions. There is also rumbelings going on in the background that there is legal action happening about the tribunal last year

I didn't have the correct config loaded for the gear sensor, I fixed it that night. There isn't a whole lot known about what happened. A lotus came off on Mt Roland and the drivers was killed, looks like rallysafe didn't alert the cars behind of the Lotus being off the road, as 6 cars drove past (7th stopped). Same thing happened last year when the bloke drowned, 50 cars drove past and had no idea a car was off.

Had some issues on day 2 that dropped us out of contention, but after hearing about the fatality in the afternoon we decided not to get the car ready for day 3, as we knew how much Motorsports Aus hates tarmac rally and would cancel it at any opertunity.

Well Targa was started and cancelled. We managed to make the start, I had a shit time tryig to get the engine from the machine shop in time. I did get the engine at the 11th hour and then found there was no compression on cylinder 1 and 6. I'll get round to looking into it properly in a few weeks to find what the issue is. But I was able to borrow a spare standard RB20 to run the event on. in the end it didn't count for much as the event was cancelled. But here is incar from the first time the car was driven at speed.

I just didn't have time to go through to the towers. It woul have taken longer to make the cage and then probably would need setup changes. At least I know i can just put the settings from the old shell in and it will feel the same. With the wheel removed it's not to bad to get in and out of, you work a process out pretty quick. I did the Australian Tarmac Championship in 2017, so am aiming to get back there to do some more evetnts. Espesially since the Targa events are getting restricted.

Car is coming along, the body work is tidied up and painted. I'll be able to start throwing things back into it now. You can get the build date from putting the vin into Nissan Fast or an online decoder. Mark Perry the Targa CEO used to import and race R32 Skylines, so he knows them inside out and the vin's etc. I'm pretty sure by the late 80s you could find out all the details of a car from it's vin. I think mine is July 89.

From memory it was about 5k difference. The box themselfs were similar, but you had to buy more bits for the Hollinger like a flatshift gearstick, bell housing etc, which is either included with the Samsonas or you can use a cheap Nissan auto bellhousing.

Yeah i've got the Sainz bars half installed. I had them in the old car and it wasn't too bad to get in and out of once you worked it out. I've got a Samsonas sequentual on order, Hollinger is much more expensive and bulkier. And I've only ever heard about people breaking PPG boxes.

I'll be running Targa this year. Once the cage is done most stuff will just be trasplanted from the old shell

Cage is coming along.

the car arrived in Tassie a while ago and I've been working on it. there was more drift damage than I first throught, but after many hours with a porta power it's straight again. I got some dry ice to remove the sound deadner, wish I'd used it years ago it's so easy. Finally this week I made a start on the roll cage

VQ35 make bulk power and torque easy with a turbo. I''m guessing they are easily avaliable in the US as the 350z was sold there

What mods are allowed in the class?

There is a bit at the top of the rules that says that if it doesn't say it can be modified, it can't be modified. So there would need to be a rule to say you can run and extra or external waste gate. Also the EM2 says "as fitted to vehcle" so they didn't come fitted with the gate welded shut. If you have an 89 shell you have to run in classic, you don't get a choise. The standard manifold and turbo housings are finefor tarmac rally. I don't really understand why they allowed twins to be swapped for singles with external gates. But singles can't be upgraded to an external gate.

EM has always been a pretty unloved category from Targa's side (even though it did hold the bulk of the field). My EM times from the past seem to be on par if not slightly quicker than the current Classic GT cars. Then i'll have the extra engine/gearbox/Tyre site/fuel freedoms over EM. So it should be a good challenge. Pete Nunn was the fasest Classic GT runner of the past few years and he was running a EM spec 944 Turbo. I think poeple are getting far to worked up over the LS being in classic, the Holden V8 made heaps of power under the rules. But you can run a LS for about a 10th of the price.

Cause I want to run Classic GT and Targa are now running with the VIN to determen the build date. That's why there are now cars spread over different classes. I'm guessing they don't want classic being flooded with late 80's japanese cars, so they've made it harder