Duncan

armidale is farking cold....but i bet stu is colder at glen innes! noddy give me a bell tomorrow if you get a chance - are you heading out to practice? btw i have a head for you

good price...I got 2 items of those with charger and 2 batteries for about 800

I happily use them and have for years.

good call, thanks noddy. re tyres....I'm just bringing what I've got, so if I'm forced to run my production car as a sports sedan it will be pretty ugly. It's a shame national champs don't follow CAMS national rules, but it's not really the organising club's fault. CAMS left it open to local clubs running them under local rules which was the real mistake. so....mostly just looking forward to a good road trip, a new track, and a good weekend

I've found them excellent for hard street and light track use. But as said above they are hard on rotors, and dusty like crazy.

great work, 12 hours is a lot of racing to survive

makes sense, thanks harry. we dont have the same distinction down here, they call them, supersprints but all have rolling starts. I've only done standing starts at the conrod straight supersprint, hillclimbs, and one sprint at oran park years ago. stu, you are keener than me, i remember how cold inland nights are (come to think, so should you!). I guess we will make tamworth or armidale only.

interesting, I haven't done a standing start supersprint in about 5 years. only flying lap times down here. I'm leaving thrusday arvo, so I might get a shot at some practice if I feel keen. but I'll probably feel more like beer than practice.

yes, first sharp corner after a long downhill. it appears showroom cars have more inertia than brakes on a long downhill stage. reeves came through about an hour after they went of and rolled at the same spot.

Well both driver and navigator confirmed it was not a navigator error.......so driver or mechanical failure either way, scans and xrays came through last night and nothing serious.....no doubt she'll be very sore for a few days though

sad indeed, RIP

interestingly for the nsw-ers who know her too, Alex Hailstone (-alex on sau) was navigating in the other team car and had a great run in her first event.. excellent to hear Alex is still keen to be part of the scene, and diving right into it. props to her for getting in the silly seat of a rally mx-5

yeah same....imagine the naging I would get if she wasn't! Matt....what is this faceplace you speak of?

lol....given your previous questions about cages...what are your thoughts Duncan? Vic events have an automatic "slicks require cages" rule.

hmm still has the neck brace on but they think it is all fine. estimated impact was 100+, head on to the bank.

or at the sway bar mounts, or at the front under the main subframe (not the front radiator support). if for some reason you need to use the chassis rails, place something under there to spread the load like a metal bar about a foot long.

agreed....and it's not like a roll cage makes a car magically safe for every crash either. but the fact is race track accidents in particular roll overs are not what manufacturers design and test for either. but yes I would rather hit a wall in a 60klm/h offset crash in an R35 GTR than a 1600.

of course not. it is extremely dangerous for the driver and other competitors but as usual CAMS regs are way behind actual development of the cars that compete under it. the entrant/s in question have no obligation to do more than CAMS require.

hmm sorry I may have given you a bum steer then. I used the first one in my stagea, but of course I have a 32 gtr gearbox (important difference I should have mentioned!). Was the bush yuo got a tight fit on the bottom of your gear stick? If you've had it all apart you will have seen the gate in the gearbox - do you have any way of measuring the inner diameter of the gearbox end? If the shifter bush's outer diameter is not the same you will still have "slop" in the throw.

lol was that these pics? I had given up catching the guys in front, so it was time for a bit of fun thanks for the inspiriation

lol...nice offer and happily accepted! I might build a house then get foxtel connected though I've seen the long trailer for the production car races and they look pretty good BTW Mark, are you coming to the national sprint an Morgan Park next week?

arp just make fasteners, not engine components

A couple of categories in the NSW State Racing champs including production cars have picked up Tv coverage....first round (the wet one from 2 weeks ago) will be on in 2 weeks. Its on the new Speed channel on Foxtel....finally a reason to sign up! http://www.eponine.com.au/live/motorracing/NSWMRC_Promo.mov

omg been a while since anything of mine was spotted! were you undercover....a celica or something?

that was my understanding too. probably best to check with a scruitineer.