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    Haha yes. Hopefully with cooling sorted and being able to do more than 1 hot lap in a session I'll be able to crack into the 1:09s. Yea, still the stock 8/6, why's that?
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    And here are a couple of videos. One of my hot laps (unsure if it was my fastest but would be close to). I may have forgotten I wasn't at a drift event at one or two points during the day lol.
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    Anyway, so this brings us to the Circuit Club Wakefield Park day. All was seeming great, until I got onto the track lol. Unfortunately the cars stock cooling could not cope with the copious amounts of track abuse this time around. After the first session, which was untimed, the car was getting to extremely hot temperatures after only 1 hot lap. Essentially, the rest of the day for me consisted of exiting pit lane, attempting to warm the tyres/brakes on the entry lap, and then proceeding to complete 1 all in hot lap straight away, and hoping the car did not go into limp mode due to the over the top temperatures (happened a couple of times). If I was a more compassionate man towards my car, I should have called it quits early in the day, but I was determined to set 1 half decent time lol. Results for the day came in with a PB of 1:10.5. Heading there I was hoping to crack into the high 1:09s, which might have been possible with more than 1 hot lap per session but who knows. I'm still happy with the time considering the circumstances. Conclusion, the car needs new cooling sooner then I thought. It has been on the list for a little while now, but has just been pushed up the list alllllllll the way to the top. Anyway, here are a few pics from the day.
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    Also, before I talk about Wakefield, my mates and I had arranged for some team stickers. As mentioned, we have started the team 'CNTS Racing', so we thought we had best advertise it! As you can guess, we got a few laughs, but the overall attention was positive lol. Our drive in convoy from Dubbo to Goulburn received a few snap neck reactions followed by pointing and laughing also. We plan to have bigger stickers made for the sides of the Skylines, but were just running these to see how they looked and see how big we wanted to go. P.S. If you haven't already, jump on and like our page on Facebook! www.facebook.com/cntsracing
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    So last week I did a basic all-round service on the car in preparation for the Circuit Club Wakefield Park day on Saturday. Fresh engine and gearbox oil and filter replacement/cleaning. I decided seeing as I'm doing the oil I'd get around to refitting the oil cooler I had fitted a while ago and had to pull back off due to a leak in one of the lines. Well it looked great. However...... it leaked again . This time it had a small but significant enough leak from around the fittings on the sandwich plate. By this point I'm pretty over the failures of the cooler kit so I am looking to get something different. Anyway, this left me in a late night rush getting the cooler removed and new oil filter fitted so the car was ready to drive the 5 hour drive and race at Wakefield.
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    Hahaha. Dodgy life insurance claim by Carmen Cage looks awesome though!
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    When you finish going broke let me know so I can buy your the car for half of what you've spent. Actually, make it a quarter of what you've spent
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    Is that a zip tie holding your FMIC up? Man I thought I was bad
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    Mad! Come say hey man, will be good to put a face to the username haha
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    Cage looks great.
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    No one else from here going?
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    All good guys, couldn't find any one reputable with one in stock so I have ordered one through Garage88
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    They said they won't have more for 2-3 months. I was hoping to have the seat fitted by next weekend as I'm heading to Wakefield lol..
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    I planned to by mine with them, though between me enquiring and saying I wanted it they sold out apparently :'(
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    Hi guys, Just thought I'd see if anyone on here is attending the Circuit Club day being held at Wakefield on the 14th March? http://www.circuitclub.com.au/event/60 Myself and Yeedogga (Chris) will be attending. This will be my first Wakefield track day where I won't intentionally be going sideways so I'm pretty keen. Hope to see some fellow Skyline enthusiasts there!
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    Woops, I thought I subscribed to this and didn't look because no email notifications!! Lol. Thanks for the responses guys. Preferably looking close to that $1000 mark depending on tyres (last time I paid $1100 with a used set of R888's, 2 of which I'm still using).
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    As per title, I have purchased myself a fixed back Bride, chasing a genuine rail to suit drivers side position in my R34 GTT. Cheers.
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    Seat has been purchased. Please delete/ignore.
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    Also x2, a couple of mates and myself had been joking for a while about starting a "race team", and we finally made the decision to do it. Enter "CNTS Racing". There will be more videos and pictures likely posted on our Facebook page so if you're keen to see some other content jump on our page and give us a like. I'll give you a hug in return https://www.facebook.com/cntsracing Here is myself and Chris (Yeedogga) proudly standing by our trophies. We both managed 3rd in class both days for the weekend, bringing in 4 trophies total for CNTS Racing, perfect for our debut event as a team
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    Also, here is the in car footage of my fastest runs for both days. The Esses, I managed a best of 30.81 seconds, which was actually on my first run of the day lol. As you can see if it a messy run, and I could have easily cracked under the 30 second mark, however, despite my best efforts I seemed to make mistakes in every run that set me back. These things happen I guess. And also the Mountain Straight. Here I managed a 54.06 (missing out on 2nd place by 0.03 seconds!!!). Again I made many unfortunate little mistakes and was actually slower then my previous PB. In this run, I was trying to hold 3rd gear up The Cutting, but the car didn't have quite enough grunt, which cost me the valuable 2nd place time lol. Again, these things happen, but I can't wait to go back and smash my PB next time!
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    Well, what a good weekend the hill climbs were. First of all, to give you guys some feedback in regards to the splitter, it is hard to say exactly what effect it had on the performance of the car, whilst the car did feel like the rear end was a bit lighter, I had also removed the rear seats and spare tyre which is not something I normally do, so it may have been just because of this. I can say with confidence the front of the car felt more stiff though, which I put down to the bracing/box section used to hold the front splitter on. Will report back after some more driving. Moving on. The hill climbs were a success on the weekend. I managed to claim 3rd in my class on both days, despite knowing the car could perform better, I was just holding it back lol. A couple of action pics I have found from the Esses hill climb on the Saturday. (I'll post some from the Mountain Straight climb when I find them).
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    Stock R34 GTT door trims (tweeters in doors and small bits of trim missing - see pictures on previous page) - $50 ono Stock R34 GTT front rotors (see pictures on previous page) - $20 Stock R34 GTT swaybars (front and rear - see pictures on previous page) - $60 for both Stock R34 GTT airbox (includes filter/AFM/snorkel/rubber intake pipe) - $180 delivered in NSW/ACT
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    No good man, what's the story with the engine builder?
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    Well the 2 day rush project to make a front splitter for my car has been completed. Please bare in mind this is in no way meant to be a professional job and was more so done as a fun/experimental project. I will let the pictures do the talking. I have no idea whether the splitter will affect the car positively or not, but the hill climbs in Bathurst this weekend should be a good test. After a quick drive out the highway to make sure it wasn't going to just snap off at any form of high speed, I feel that at the very least, the bracing has stiffened the front end of the car up. Time will tell. It will also need to be trimmed down, assuming I decide to keep it on the car lol, as to meet NSW Time Attack regulations which I plan to enter later in the year. Clubsprint rules deem that a front splitter can protrude up to 50mm, currently this is around 60-65mm.
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    Car is looking great!
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