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No the yellow 33 was Scott (BOO57A). He ran an awesome new PB of 13.1 I ran an awesome new ANTI-PB of 14.4 Bye bye clutch-ey bye bye.... Big up to "teh burnout king" for letting me borrow his car to stick it to the black stocker side by side 13.2's was fun.... Just where IS 3rd gear?!?! See you all on Sunday Adrian

See you guys there !!! Adrian

If you're like me and race on sticky radial tyres instead of slicks and you wish there was a class you could race in that catered to your daily driver rather than a weekend trailer toy, then help me out with some input on what YOU think would make a great "Street Car/Street Tyre Class". I am looking for suggestions, ideas, input, criticisms and discussions so as to best formulate a new class that lends itself to your street car. =================== Ideas and points that are open for serious discussion include: What constitutes a "Street Car"? What constitutes a "Street Tyre"? What types of vehicles should be welcomed to compete? What weight breaks, (if any) should be imposed to keep the racing level? =================== At the moment I am leaning towards a RWD Street Car/Street Tyre class with breaks for 4cyl/2rotar and 6cyl/3rotar. This is just my personal opinion though and it is open to suggestion and ideas. This excercise is born from discussions at street meets, drag events, cruises, forums etc and wherever phrases like, "On street rubber" and "In street trim" are mentioned. I really think that there is no opportunity for the guys and girls that race their cars at street meets to compete in a class geared especially for them. What do you think? Adrian [email protected]

Here's what it says on the ANDRA website: What a great idea I think I will. I have posted a thread in the Drag section on this forum, and am in the process of posting on a number of others asking for suggestions, thoughts, ideas, criticisms etc on a new RWD STREET TYRE class. One of the biggest bones of contention will be the debate as to what constitutes a "Street Tyre". Feel free to weigh into this argument boys and girls Let me know what you think, if you'd support a class like this by racing/attending, what kinds of cars should be eligible to compete, whether i'm wasting my time or not?!?!? Basically, I feel there is a huge demand for a TRUE street car class with records being kept and support from the wider drag racing community including ANDRA who are keen to grow Sport Compact Racing as demonstrated above. Who's with me? Adrian

R33's are 3100lb or thereabouts... I guess you could strip out 200lb if you REALLY tried which still means they're a LOT of car. Stripping the interior etc?? Really dunno. But i'm already looking into it. Rob, I'll be emailing you tonight or tomorrow to start to pick your brains. Thanks again. Adrian

OK. A couple of replies that I am very very happy with. I think perhaps we got off on the wrong foot, Jason. When I innitially emailed you to check out our forum some months ago, I was very pleased to see you show a genuine interest in keeping us in the loop. You seemed keen to discuss with the 7000 odd members of skylinesaustralia.com, the changes and developments in Australian Championship Drag Racing and I thank you for this. Now that we're (I'm) past the fact that you don't intend to leave us out and I have an appreciation for what the Oz Mod class is designed to do, I am keener than ever to talk to you about our ideas and how we fit into Sport Compact racing in Australia. I know as well as anyone here that it isn't the every day, slow cars that bring in the crowds and you get more of a crowd at a venue like WSID for Nitrochamps etc than for a street meet, but the majority of people on this forum are just that - the crowd. Encouraging seriously fast Skylines into a class like Oz Mod is commendable but it really is a case, in my opinion, that the REALLY fast Skylines will either: 1/ Not race in this class due to the fact that we drive tubby lard-balls or 2/ Not race in this class due to the tyre size issue. Now, I love racing my car and as it's not one of the fastest *cough far from it cough*, I will probably be a spectator for Oz Mod racing. But I think you've hit on an excellent couple of points and the ausrotary.com guys have led by example. Once we've organised what "we the otherwise spectators with slower cars" would need to fit into Sport Compact racing in Aus, can I arrange to sit down with you and go through some stuff relating to or leading to a proper street tyre class? You don't know how keen the vast majority of people who are interested in drag racing on this site are for a street tyre class to be incorporated into your portfolio as ANDRA Sport Compact Director. It is the source of MUCH discussion amongst club and forum members and comes up in conversation on EVERY cruise and EVERY street meet. How about it Jason? Lets organise a time frame, get submissions from various sections of the street car community and sit down and talk about it. I'm buzzing with the prospect of actually helping develop a class like this in Australia as opposed to waiting for the states to do it and copying their formats. Best of luck with this new class at Jambo. It sure looks like it will be well populated if not immediately with the cars i'd pay to watch. Can't wait to hear from you. Adrian

Check your AFM plug Adrian

Were you the guy from the states that emailed me? If so, give me a reply email address that works dude... Adrian

So come along on Wednesday to WSID Adrian

JAS, was talking to Scott today at work. We should cruise up in the early arvo to WSID and lay the Gong Smack Down on the place!! If only you were in W.A. mate. Your stocker could run 10's !!! Adrian

So you'll accept ausrotary.com forum input but not ours? Thanks very much. What about: Tyre size limited to 26x10 in 26 inch height tyre, and 28x9 for 28 inch height tyres? Adrian

And while we're at it, lets just have a quick look at the confirmed entries for Jamboree in the Oz Mod class: 1. Rob (project_x) 13BTT 323 2. Frank (etstreet aka MRHELI) 13BT 1200 ute 3. Daniel (PRO20B) 20BT rx4 4. Craig (RX3ROTOR) 20BT rx3 5. Marty (AVENGE) 13BT rx4 6. Tim (BUSHPIG) 13BT Contina 7. Damien (Grump2) 13BT rx2 8. Bryce (13BEE) 13BT rx3 9. Michael (CRZYFJ) FJ20T Gemini 10. Elia (HEKTYK) 13BT rx3 11. Kevin (AWADSN) 20BT rx4 12. Rodney (WKD13B) 13BT rx3 13. Benny (PNK13B) 13BT rx3 14. Jon (RXENG aka DRAGME) 13BT rx3 15. Peter (RICE RACING) ??? 16. Angus (A777) 13BT rx7 17. Daniel (12ENV) 13BT rx3 18. Jason Both 13BT rx7 19. Dale (10sec_rx7) 13BT rx7 20. Pat (citta) 13BT rx3 21. Nassar (DRAGIT) 13BT rx3 22. Dean (RUN10Z) 13BT rx3 23. Rodney (7 SINS aka spankme_rotor) 13BT rx7 24. HYP13T 13BT ute 22, possibly 23 of the 24 confrimed entrants so far are rotors. Suspicions confirmed. Rotary class. Adrian

As a matter of fact I haven't sent this to your email, Jason. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- (reason: 554 : Relay access denied) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.andra.com.au.: >>> DATA <<< 554 : Relay access denied 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from Dell (kia-ts1-2600-094.tpgi.com.au [202.7.212.94]) by mail5.tpgi.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i5RCBU4V008795 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:11:55 +1000 Message-ID: <003901c45c3f$91cad260$5ed407ca@Dell> From: "Adrian" <[email protected]> To: Subject: Oz-Mod issues and suggestions Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:09:14 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed

I think I see the problem, Jason. The thing that will determine the success of this class in MY mind is not whether ENOUGH cars are competing, but whether enough DIFFERENT types of cars are competing. And on a side note, skylinesaustralia.com welcomes any new forum members you hope to refer. Maybe once they leave the rotary ONLY world they post in, they'll see another point of view. A point of view that believes that a TRIAL CLASS should start off, not by excluding as many popular types of cars as possible and working backwards, but by including as MANY UNTUBBED CARS AS POSSIBLE and deciding what fits and what doesn't. I just don't know why you think that it's better your way. Don't you think that the Supra, VL, Skyline communities will be more than a little slapped in the face by class rules that leave out their primary size slick tyre? It's one thing to say, "I want Skylines/ Supra's etc in this class and the rules that have been formulated have been done so to attract a majority of players not a boutique few like the rotor boys", but i'm afraid it reads like bullshit !! The weight thing is neither here nor there for now as I don't think you know enough about the cars you claim to want to attract to use this as a restriction, (Skylines & Supras). The slick size is another big indicator of this point making it the least researched new class I have seen for a long while. But why, with all of the southern states' running massively fast VL's, have you not looked further than your mates Ray Box and Rob @ Ausrotary for the tyre size rules? Sorry mate, but this just can't be ignored. I have also emailed this to you so you can forget the, "I have had not one email from any member of Skylinesaustralia.com.au regarding Sport Compact drag racing!!!" schtick. I appreciate the effort required in getting Sport Compact racing in Australia off the ground and so far, so good. OzMod however will be doomed to failure if your focus remains on quantity of entrants over quality. Adrian Hodgson Wollongong, NSW

Sunday 4pm - 5:30pm on SBS. Adrian

Bummer Adrian

Amen !

Do you know whether certain materials are better than others in this regard? i.e. Chrome-molly, Billet Steel etc? Adrian

umm.. you realise that reaction time has absolutely nothing to do with your ET ? Adrian

Listen matey, I've done what I talk about. Have you? Let your timeslips do the talking. Roy, IanH uses the Power FC Pro in his GTT. It has launch control built in. You can hold the pedal flat and it will only rev to the pre-set level. Adrian

run tubes if they're slicks don't bother if they're ET Streets. Adrian

Trying to run quicker than 13.0 is cheating. Adrian

GRRRRRrrrrrrrr..... You'll keep. Adrian

How long is a piece of string? What a silly question. Adrian

Nope. I meant racing on the street means you're a dikhead. ROFL No mate it doesn't. lol. But i know how to fix that: "I need two of these...the big ones....and I need'm by tonight!" Adrian