Duncan

cancel that, times are up....another good day for SAU class....and some damn quick cars these days http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results....05/2010.WAKE.S1 2 1 Duncan Forrest Duncan Forrest Nissan R35 4D 29 24 1:02.4400 5 91 Michele Guyer Michele Guyer March 87B 5E 24 10 1:03.1591 0:05.4228 7 112 Stuart Inwood Stuart Inwood Nissan GTR R33 SVD 19 14 1:04.3460 0:06.6097 13 41 Neil de Pau Neil de Pau Radical Prosport 5D 19 14 1:05.6374 0:07.9011 19 551 Mark Smith Mark Smith Nissan Silvia 4D 17 14 1:07.4992 0:09.7629 Brian, did you not make this round?

good work from Mark too...made it home after running a raceworx spec widebody 32 gtst all week

well done guys re the fuse....we always carry a range of them in the boot. there are so many stages where you just can't get to the crew

no sign of times on natsoft for today??? hope everyone went OK

yeah pretty sure he is home and hosed, every car has cleared the last stage so far

Snowy looks to be in an excellent position to take out EM (SAU class) on his first shot. Very good driving, (and a little good luck). Hope I haven't just put the mocker on them.

Its a kind of impractical taxi with only 2 doors and very poor fuel economy. The ultimate example of why there is no point putting lipstick on a p1g.

definately not off topic....see you at targa hi country

I am absolutely astonished that car was not crushed. How could they let an uncomplied car loose? If collecters work out what it is it will set a record for a non-race aussie car

I'd be devastated if that was my car (way too much blood, sweat and tears in in...some of them mine), but the truth is it is cheap and easy to reshell these cars. Other than the shell pretty much everything Mark is running this year rolled down a hill 7 times. Changeover cost for a new shell is less than $10k which is a drop in the ocean compared to some of these builds. I know of a full, uncomplied 33 GTR with running motor going for 12k...once you sell the motor it doesn't cost much. I guess snowy is going to need to reshell too, that one is seriously f**ked and I've never seen a "middle-cut".

sorry I assumed you had unlimited budget because you had been working overseas. unfortunately if you have to ask you can't afford one. sorry.

exactly correct. Mark and I are now building a short run of Raceworx Super Spartan Targa GTSTRs. We just need 8 more customers. They are about 1000kg, spaceframe, RB34DERT (super and turbo charged to help get the twin td06s spooling), hollinger sequential, carbon fibre body. They run 325 tyres on the rear and have 12 spot brakes, you would be a great customer. Best of all they run a Vipec ECU from the factory and include a 4th gear lock out for drag racing purposes. No rear seat either.

We have been very lucky lately with our tracks, its a long time since something like this happened. Apparently driver and a couple of spectactors were taken to hospital but are stable

yeah early modern looks like "SAU class" doesn't it! Good work from Tim, obviously he hasn't had to read any stages backwards this year! Roy, ATTKD Select is not a GTR, that is a different model of car. It does have many similar parts like the whole chasis. Engine is also very similar to NIssan's car but ATTKD's car has a larger stroke 2.8l, bigger cams and bigger turbos than the similar car from nissan. And while I'm glad Kel is in such a damn good car....I really don't agree with what the current rules allow.

lol these cars have cheats? I heard that if you have your foot on the brake, turn on the rear demister, hit the left indicator twice while pulling the up gear shift that it puts the car into "no damage" mode. Until you next stop the car any crashes you have do not cause any loss of performance or handling. Heard this from the targa guys. seriously though...do you launch it from a standing start and how well is it standing up to it? the jdm cars that everyone is running at targa or similar do 15-30 launch control launches each event and I only know of one that has lunched their transaxle.

hey Jason can you just pm me your address and the next time you are leaving your stag alone unattended?

I've never used AD08 but I have done some track work on high end street tyres. They generally work best with high pressures too (and low aspect ratios) to make up for weaker sidewalls. If I don't have a starting point I use the following guide: Street Tyres: 38-42 Semi Slicks: 30-34 Slicks: 28-32 Of course lots of tyres are different, and the heavier the car, the more pressure is needed. But it is a good starting point. Duncan what works with the r35 dunlops? being run flats I guess the rules are different again?

I agree with all of that for motorkhanas....but just wanted to mention that I would never recommend rear toe out on a street driven car. Its the sort of thing that makes you end up backwards in a telegraph pole on a wet night. will definately help on the skid pan though.

wilfred did not miss that boot, did he

good looking setup, and it will be interesting to see what you go with and what you find. some things I know: with big power cars, the more fwd, the quicker it goes. right up to 50/50 split you will then blow up your front diff and break front driveshafts so they need looking at if you still have lots of fwd on corner entry you will get significant corner entry understeer (in particular if you have a mechanical diff) so really the required setup is relively simple, you could get OK results with just a brake light switch instead of g sensor.

what happened with these tyres in the past few years by way of history. around 5+ years ago the v700 were the control tyre for IPRA. those guys get every last 10th out of their cars due to fairly restrictive rules and they found these tyres were actually pretty good. But especially so when buffed (ie some of the "new" tread depth removed). So everyone started peeling 70% of the tyre off, got good performance, but they were expensive to run becuase after the buffing they would only last 1 or at the most 2 meets before being below the tread depth indicators. they still worked fine at that level, almost like slicks, but were not legal because there was not enough tread left. in the years since, for whatever reason, they were not used much or well regarded. I think this was a mistake, the v700/v70A are a good tyre. Some people like Ben, and for that matter Tony Sullens used them for good effect at events like targa (especially the soft compound). 2 years ago kumho V70A won the production car control tyre contract in NSW from yokohama. That is where I first met them and used 4 sets over 6 rounds trying different pressures etc. There were a further 30 cars running them including the commodores like I said. We found by accident and rumour that they worked best hot (ie people accidently letting them get too high, finding good results then checking pressure to their surprise). Mine definately worked better at that pressure but some guys literally run them at 50+psi getting the best results. Make no mistake these guys are dead serious about lap times because the front running cars are very similar, they would not run these pressure unless they gave results. John from fsport was obviously all over the pressures and results people were getting - no wonder he recommends high pressures too However, in the low profile tyres (35 and under, like 265.35.18) they started to fail at these pressures. the distributor rightly pointed to over inflation but in the end, due to perceived ureliability they were ditched as the control tyre for safety reason. we now run an open tyre list and the same cars are running 1 or even 2 seconds quicker on the same tracks using dz03G or re55. no disrespect to ben's experience (hell he can farm potatoes like no-one I know), but targa experience and track testing/development are totally different. there is absolutely no doubt these tyres work better at much higher pressures than others. FWIW I run the dunlops at 32-34psi so I am not some crazy high pressure fetishist.

lol no idea why anyone listens to anyone on the internet. 82% of people are talking shit with no experience and 87% of numbers are just made up on the spot

maybe too late for this weekend. but there are the 3rd best tyres I have run behind dz03g and re55s, and they are 30-50% cheaper. so a clear winner on cost/performance. If you have to win (ie cost is not a factor), the other 2 are the only option. Like I said I ran 42-44 for best results on the gtr....but heavier cars like commonwhore ran even higher with good results. of course we are way outside sensible/manufacturer recommendations....just saying what actually works with these tyres.

I only kind of agree with that - ball joint spacers or longer ball joints help but do not restore the factory geometry/roll centre unless you adjust the upper arms as well, which is hard to almost impossible without major changes.

I've used these for a couple of years on my stagea (circuit and road), and 350z (circuit, motorkhana skids and road) without any problems. might be a bad batch, might be bad luck...either way I would not accept anything but replacement or refund.