Duncan

wouldn't worry too much, its probably just whoever would back the klm before selling it broke something at the same time.

yeah I think Neil's biggest challenge once the wheels were changed was the same as mine the week before - its just a hard track to get the hang of in a couple of laps. I had the big advantage of racing there the weekend before and having had a week to think about all my mistakes lol. there's no mistake the track rewards comittment but I needed heaps of laps to get any idea of what speed I could carry, where.

depends if you consider 8 seconds off the pace to be good. r35 did 1.56 http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results..../2009.PHIL.S9.Y mitsu gto went quicker than the r35

max. try a search for "towbar" in this forum, theres a 7 page thread

thanks guys I'm really happy about how it went, especially after the troubles I had last weekend. huge congrats to Stu in coming 1st in modified too, he had to fight all weekend right until the last session to win the class, and I can tell you he had absolutely nothing left in that car. The GTR that came 2nd was extremely well prepared and the driver had done some laps around there prior, so for Stu to win there on his first time down there is a great effort. actually it was a great weekend for dattos all around, there was a top turnout and results from most of the guys (and only 1 with real problems, borken motor after pulling 2nd in turn 1 at 160+). And also great work from Scott in the minetti to be only 1 second off the outright win against a full on F3 car. thanks to everyone that helped me out this weekend and last - kel, neil, tektrader69, letmedrive and dad and all the sau vic guys that dropped by

haha good work guys....shame mark is such a pussy behind the wheel otherwise you might have got a good result. don't worry about the super taxis with an extra 20 years of development...what was the group A GTR's best time around there? that car had the best of everything - preparation, development, and the 2 best drivers going around back then.

ahh no timing sucks for me. we are towing the car back from vic that monday (assuming it survives buller) and then running show n shine the day after. no way do i have a chance to go racing that day which is a damn shame

v motors won nothing on the weekend. every class was won by an rb26, or a straight 4

interesting way to put it. you aren't covering the event because the not for profit club running the event won't give you a free trader stall and free access to content for you to sell on your dvds. A number of businesses have been very enthusiastic and supportive of the show and the club overall, and this will be by far the biggest import event in sydney this year. Its been brilliant to see the number of entrants and businesses interested in the show, so businesses without attitudes like yours are better not being there at all.

hahaha play nice you too. and lets not forget that lofty and bozman ran the same car in the same team in the same class for at least 2 seasons. of course not both cars were prepared to the same level (no 2 cars ever are, just ask barrichello)

omg i spotted 3 white stageas. firday night on the big road that goes from the airport to phillip island, a white one WGNC34 and then 2 white stagea tow cars at the track over the weekend. good work guys

hahah good find! probably older than the car its going in to!

good to meet you guys on the weekend too.... looking forward to a better run this time!

not cursed, that was my fault.....I know when I launch it too high the clutch slips (done it once before). It was running way hot in 20 min races but it will be fine for the super sprints this weekend even though the weather looks hotter, it was fine for the first couple of laps.

yeah everyone was on semis, although some cars got new ones for each of the 3 races. as usual budget talks. I was on dunlop dz03 for the first time too, and they are excellent, at least as good as re55s. I don't think top line current semis give away anything significant to same sized slicks. one thing I saw once again....modern full weight cars put too much strain on semis and they simply fail. I saw stuffed dunlops, bridgestone, toyo and kumho tyres this weekend, none of them are up to the job of carrying heavy cars safely I can't really call my car quick, turn 3 and the right hander into the hayshed were still both flat (although in 5th this time). I found the next turn left after hayshed and lukey heights very tricky but the rest pretty straight forward. Best time was 1.53 and best potential lap based on 3x best sectors was 1.51. No doubt I was a couple of seconds off what the car was capable of, I really need time to learn tracks and lots of laps to go fast. Not like Pete who can set his fastest lap on the first lap, then gets slower every lap after I only had about 10 clean laps so hopefully will do a fair bit better next weekend. My guess is the car is good for a 1.49-1.48, about the same as eastern creek. But I've never met a race track I don't like, PI is no exception. It definately has challenges, in particular judging the speed in the quick corners. I am sure I could carry 10 or maybe even 20 klm/h faster in turn 1 and 12 but I just didn't get the time to get the comfort with them, and if you run wide on the exit of either you are in the shit. Les walkden wrote off his spec c wrx on the straight and went to hospital with a sore neck, so you can't under-estimate how much it will hurt if you mis-judge it. snowcone did you work out your cooling problems? did the pwr setup help? or did the right one never arrive? I know mark's r34 runs the best water cooling he can get but still runs too hot too

Phillip Island with the targa cars. I stuffed the clutch on the start and did the rest of the race without it. speaking of over temp...I had to retire from all 3 races, water temp over120o

not even close to the right section, but welcome anyway!

hahah I do know now! But no I didn't realise until I started looking at the cars beside me in the garages lol. Lawson's car is also amazing, standard capacity sr20, 1.46 around there. And the poor bastards changed a head overnight, then broke a diff about 2 laps later. I thought I was having top speed challenges but they were over 7500 in 5th with a 4.1 diff, I was only about 6000.

quick? it was outrageous. 1.45.1 which according to the circuit times thread is almost a second quicker than Aaronr34's time which is the quickest on here. This was the first lap of race 3. I got a good start but fried the clutch (not that I noticed until 3rd gear). Even so I was up from 24 to 14th before I gave up on the clutch and let the guys through...then limped around the rest of the race without the clutch (more practice needed, I can do it fine when I don't need to but I struggled this race) BTW evos suck at getting off the line

hey you don't have to believe me....but you have to admit it is possible that real life experience can be more correct than the internet sometimes....

not cursed, just running hot. actually the race that I did get to start was a ball. all the other drivers were very sensible and courteous although a few of them were clearly very green on the race track. and yes hislop's tyres were totally rooted by the end. that car is outrageously quick. PI was good fun but I need more than 10 hot laps to get the hang of it. and...interesting interpretation of the targa regs in some of those cars....really should have just been called sports sedans up the front of the grid.

actually....the bookie is right. If he left the pits to go to the grid, he came under starter's orders, therefore he started the race. funnily enough I had a very similar situation yesterday (mechanical failure on warm up lap) and was classified DNF not DNS.

just grab the plain (non drilled or slotted) Bobby. That's exactly what i ran on the race car for years (from DBA) before they allowed us to go to 2 piece. they were fine (see avatar )

Kel and I have entered the race car, we're staying up at the Grand Mercure. Come by and say hi, yellow and purple is hard to miss

Kel posting as Duncan here (mwahh hah hah- the power!!! the havoc I can wreak!!!) I figure it's appropriate to give a quick update from the Phillip Island round of the Targa Invitations in this thread. Update is the racing was great but our day didn't go at all to plan - you probably won't believe this, but Duncan had a bit of bad luck :-| Today we enjoyed 30 degree temps at the track - nice for the suntan but not for the water temps when something is not quite right in a gtr. Long story short we could have made a very good attempt at a cup of coffee with the water dumped from the radiator after first practice. A second cup was also on the cards after the second dump after qualifying (where Duncan managed to put in 3 laps- one of them semi decent). After much head scratching - not to mention loss of skin, bloods and burns - a farked radiator cap was thought to be the problem- the bastard wasn't sealing causing massive loss of pressure. The theory and fix *should* have been tested in race one, however as Duncan pulled onto the track the boost went goodbye. As the blokes were tightening things up after the inspection of the thermostat, it seems some coolant/crap caused some slippage in the bay and a pipe didn't get as much love as needed. Yup, we'd blown an intercooler pipe. After some afterhours tinkering (and more skin and blood being sacrificed to the car) we *think* it's sorted... touch wood. Tomorrow is a rolling start and reverse grid so heaps of fun hopefully. There are some BLOODY QUICK cars out there this week. Race was won by Mark O'Conner in a Lotus Exige, 2nd was Garwood in his Porker and 3rd was Ray Hislop in the Ford BF Falcon (which also started from pole and set the fastest lap- not bad for a taxi!).