Ant97GTR

My 33R....

Awesome idea

I noticed you say that this the final round....I thought the SAU nats were counting as one of the champ. rounds?

Was pulling out all the stops to make it up and spectate this year with no luck All the best to everyone competing this year and esp to the vic guys!

Jacket 1 please

Congrats to all those who scored PB's! As others have said, it was a great day for it, just a pity so many people had dramas whether it be mechanical/noise or otherwise. I was bitterly disappointed my day was cut short by mechanical gremins but what can you do (thats the last time I'm fitting gtst parts to a gtr hey bris). As for the whole noise thing, Snowie hit it on the head in that the club running the day has no control over the matter. So many things effect the noise reading...clouds, wind direction blah, blah its hard to know what pushes one car over the limit and not others. I've said it before but I will say it again...as far as I am concerned noise limits do not belong on a trackday. You go there to see how fast you and your car is....not to back off at the location where a sound meter is

Any Idea what no to call Matt? Also anyone want to share a garage??

Yeah my problem was a loose connection between the elec supply and rest of the car due to the alram being spliced in. This would only happen on high G corners though - no brakes and no power is just what you want when flying around corners! I assume that you have tried things like incorrectly setup atmo BOV's etc??

Lol you still need to catch me at the island....and sandown....oh and calder

Holy sh1t Russ thats an awesome time...well done! Seems you and I are no longer in the same league buddy

Have fun everyone...I'm out due to unforseen circumstances See you at the next one....

Not that most of us seem to watch the One broadcast now, but what I said above seemed to be confirmed last night Pretty sure I caught one of the One team mention that the next race will be on channel 10 not OneHD.

Dont't know if its been mentioned here before, but I heard a disappointing rumour on Monday that TEN is moving F1 off the HD One channel and moving it back to chl 10 It will still be live but I'm pi$$ed that it won't be in HD. Apparently now the packers have a stake they are moving all sport off of one to make foxtel the place to be for HD sport broadcast

Oh yeah and the facial bruises from Fitzy are slowly getting better A la

New PB for me SAU Nickname: Ant97gtr Car Make and Model: R33 GTR Circuit Name: Calder Lap time: 1:02.78 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?24/03/2012.CPR.S19 Engine: Built RB26 Power: 330kw @ Racepace Dyno Suspension: Racepace Tien RA's with adj arms Tyres: ADVAN AO50 265/35/18 mediums Brakes: Stock with DBA5000 front and RDA slotted rear rotors

Despite the weather looking average it ended up being a good day. Goal for the day was to get into the 1:02's and managed to squeeze it in before I had to leave early with a 1:02.78. Great footage John...I'll have to grab a hi res version of it at some point In car: Great driving by John and Chris to get low 1:06's

Fixed

Great to see the sponsors on board!

Sorry to read Paul ......what are your plans from here?

Back to the original q...do I think my car (I know its not a dedicated track car) would be faster in 2wd? On face value, I would say no as in slower corners the car has way more exit speed than 2wd cars. Also when the car does break traction mid through a corner the awd allows me to keep on the throttle. This was particularly evident on my 44 at PI as my right rear semi was effectively bald. Around left hand corners like lukie heights the car would break away and I had the confidence to keep on the gas as the awd would pull me out of the corner. With the tyres going off like this a 2wd car (even if it were lighter) would never be able to pull a time like that. A good comparison would be my battles with Russ's track gtst during 2010. My car was a full weight (as described previously) 33 gtr with 280kw at the rears. Russ's 32 was stripped with about 250kw at the rears (roughly...Russ could quote a more accurate power figure). IMO the slight power advantage of mine is offset by the weight difference which leaves a fairly good comparison between the 2wd and 4wd (before anyone complains I know there was a fair bit of chassis, suspn geometry diff between the 32-33)....oh and I was running slightly wider semi's as well. At the end of the day we were neck and neck at most tracks with not a lot splitting us. However when tyres were worn or the track was damp the 4wd was on top.

Fair enough. As per Roy's post above my car is a full weight street spec car (no weight removed - not even the back seats, aircon, stock brakes etc etc)...all I do is bolt semis to the thing. At PI I have done a mid 1:44, Sandown a mid 1:19 and Calder a 1:06 (although to be fair I haven't had a real crack at Calder - car is capable of a 62 IMO).

Puts hand up for all three......why do you ask?

Awesome work....looking forward to replacing my 2011 one

Good work Paul....can't wait to see you back out there!

John if u want footage are you able to connect to the net to play my youtube stuff or do u want me to bring it?