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Yeah man, Trojan Motorsports did heaps of work on my car, we wouldn't have got there without John!!! I will update this shortly.

This was the moment where LAST MINUTE RACING was born (big thanks to my gorgeous girlfriend jess for thinking up that name) We still had heaps to do before we left for Tasmania. Our sponsors, Fifth Gear Motoring, Trojan Motorsports and FEDERAL still had to have their decals applied to the car... On a very early morning in April, 3 young men embarked on a journey that would change their lives...... maybe All AJ seemed to do the whole way was sleep... and sleep..... and sleep some more.....

I went shopping for some bits to make my little skyline move along a little bit faster. I bought a Garrett 3076R .86 turbo, Rb25 high mount manifold, Plazmaman intake plenum, Tial blow off valve, ID 1000cc injectors, dual entry rail, surge tank with 044 pump and a Haltech platinum pro plugin ECU. Then to stop us at warp speed I bought a Ksport brake kit 8 pot front and 4 pot rear 330mm. We overlooked the clutch in this whole setup.... it still had a fairly standard heavy duty clutch in it.... So out it comes and in with a new NPC single plate 400kw clutch. This was all completed 2 weeks out from leaving for Tasmania......

We had a couple of obvious hurdles facing us on our road to Targa.... the first one was a biggie. Adrian doesn't know his left from right and gets scared in fast cars..... not the best formula for a good navigator!!!! After lots of deliberating, we called upon another good mate of mine, Thomas Mcready. Thomas works for Fifth Gear Motoring and has a wealth of knowledge and experience driver training. The perfect person to keep me calm doing 250km/h!!! Now that we have that sorted we come across the next problem. My car is an almost standard 1996 R33 skyline.... certainly no hope for any sort of contention at Targa.... Let the modifications begin!!! First we stripped the interior to allow a BOND roll bars 6 point roll cage to be fitted. The roll cage installed and painted... Next is the fun bit, removing the hot and cold side from the rb25 power plant to make way for some new goodies!!!

So After my initial track day I started participating in skid pan days and additional track days and loved every second of it. I started training at the skid pan and decided to spend a little money on my car (it seemed like a lot of money at the time, I was in year 12!!!) I added a HICAS lock bar, HSD coilovers and had some Federal RSR tyres put on my ADVAN RS Racing wheels. Next time out at the track after the mods I managed a 1:13.9 beating a few much quicker cars!!! I was pretty happy to say the least! One day at work me and a good mate Adrian were talking about tarmac rallies. Naturally, Targa Tasmania came up in conversation. By the end of the 20 minutes of heated discussion we had managed to convince ourselves that entering my car in Targa Tasmania was a good idea :S That was mid 2011.....

Hey guys, I finally decided to put up a little info on my R33. It started life as a bog standard R33 GTST series 2 when I bought the car in 2009. I put a set of Advan RS racing wheels on it almost straight away which cost me half as much as the car itself.... For my 18th birthday my parents bought me an advanced driver training course with Fifth Gear Motoring at Wakefield Park. Apparently I wasn't too bad!!! I managed a 1:19.6 on standard wheels and 10 year old Falken something 205 tires. Everything went downhill from there.... When I get home tomorrow I will update the thread with old and current photos of the car and take you through how it got there and where we are headed!!! Cheers Damian Lomax Last Minute Racing

Hey guys, I bought a N/A 80 series before we went down to Targa Tas last year and I couldn't be happier with it!!! It certainly isn't fast but it does the job and is 100% reliable. It tows like there is nothing behind it due to the massive weight of the vehicle you never get the load misbehaving. However it was too slow for me so I turbo intercooled it about 3 months ago. It is now fantastic, hills that I had to drop to second in before are now fairly easy in fourth gear at 80+km/h. It still returns about 18L/100k towing fully loaded and when im not towing I can drive over the Brindabella's in it!! If the one you buy doesn't have a large lift and 33's like mine then it will tow even better! I vote for the land cruiser.

Do you happen to have an r33 gtr power steering pump?

Hey mate, you got the front passenger window?? If so how much for it!!!! Thanks man

hahaha, no thats not what i was doing at all :S

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Giveway, unfortunately the cost wont come down that far because that would require there to be 12 cars and that number significantly decreases your time on the skidpan. Cheers

In regards to passengers as randon said technically no but dereck the fifth gear trainer is a really relaxed guy and if the sutton officials aernt there i dont c it being an issue although you would probably benefit from his freakish talent more Thats no worries i did get two calls from a blocked number which i take it was you, i just tried calling you again with no answer so just call me when your free. Finally its now $150 a spot

Yeah i Agree $200 is steep and im not keen to pay that either , invite anyone you think would be interested just let me know

Well basically i have to pay $1200 for the skidpan for half a day.... for example 6 cars would mean $200 per car and 12 cars would mean $100 per car, so hopefully somewhere in that range

randon i am send me a contact number for you and ill organise it with you Same thing with you Trozzle, that would be much appreciated

Well Currently the price is $200 per car but that will go down the more people we have

Hello everyone, I'm organising a privte skidpan day on august 7th and I am struggling for numbers currently. Anyone is welcome with any sort of vehicle and there will be plenty of time on the pan. The event starts at 12pm and goes until 5pm. If anyone is interested pm me and I'll hold you a spot. Cheers