Marlin

Know anyone who'd lease a car for an event down your way, and would you get in for it?

I must wholeheartedly agree, who cares about the pace, gotta have grunt, so turbo is the winner for me

YT's old R34 we ran in 07/08 was like that cage, bloody hard work getting in/out! lol Nothin better than pinching a nerve in your neck when getting in 3 minutes prior to a stage! lol, good strong cages but

I was havin a bit of a think about the Quinny situation last night, and it dawned on me that the VIP team would have been under intense scrutiny over the event. No one can tell me that there isn't a whole bunch more stroked Evo's competing in that event. I went through the pics on the site yesterday and could see other cars that have known cheat-spec engines. That doesn't change the fact that the cars were illegal. Many of you won't know the details of a run-in that Quinn had with CAMS relatively recently. I'll try and make it brief and succinct. Given the goings on I reckon the war against Quinn is fairly personal for CAMS, and I'd be suprised if Quinn enters any CAMS events after this. lol Quinn had entered a car in a circuit event and apparently had requested some elligibilty info from CAMS. CAMS supplied the info verbally and Quinn's team built the car to that spec. The car arrived at the event and raced, did well. The car was post-event scrutineered and excluded from the results based purely on the incorrect information supplied verbally. Apparently no debate would be entered into. From memory this is when a $5000- fine was handed to Quinn. The fine was paid at QR racetrack office, and delivered in a few buckets of coins and tipped on the office floor. CAMS states that fines cannot be paid in this manour, but apparently a technicality of how the clerk answered a particular question allowed the instant dumping of 80 kg of loose change on the floor as payment. lolololol. Now you can start to see the shit-fight beginning. Quinn must have got a massive bee in his bonnet about the fine/exclusion, and decided a little cheeky signwriting was required for a televised event, based on what Top Gear did with the BMW endurance racer. A business name of 'Stewards Socks" was registered, and a few boxes of socks were made and embroidered as Stewards Socks. The car was signwritten with a large CAMS sticker, with the Stewards Socks right beside it. The top of the "o" and the "s" were a different colour to the rest of the signwriting. For all intents and purposes the signwritten vehicle read "CAMS Stewards Suck", which obviously got a fair bit of CAMS attention. CAMS apparently demanded to see the registered business papers and product, all of which was well in hand prior to the event. Quinny gave a pair of Stewards Socks to each attending high ranking CAMS official at the meeting at Stewards Socks warehouse (also known as VIP Petfoods lunch room). So regardless of anything, Quinny has still got a sense of humour! I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall there! ** this entire post is possible heresay and could well be totally untrue, but I was in tears of laughter when I heard it**

Hi mate, GTR rear cradle and hubs/shafts... you got them?

Who navved for each Quinny this time?

Yeah I'm definately telling. I've printed your reply. See you at Jambo.

TT run under AASA, TW run under CAMS, totally seperate ruling bodies.

Hahaha, that looks great Trezy, nice shots!

Benny, If you entered it as a Spec V, who would have the knowledge base to argue about any of it's specs???? lol

You could always blow an official to convince them to let you keep running Russ.

You won't find MCA on the web mate, Murray's from the old school, talk to your customer, suss out what it is that he wants/needs. I suggest just giving him a bell; http://www.mcasuspension.com/home.htm

lol, yeah true mate, oh how I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the McLaren post race team briefing. lololol And Badoer, well, after the dissappointment of not seeing MS back in it, Badoer's poor performance just robbed salt into the wounds. Ferrari's arrogance toward new young talent has come back to bite them.

I agree with you Harry, no form of motorsport is "cheap" if you want to be competetive. Heck, I've been doing the Queensland Enduro Karting Championship this year and although it's designed to be cheap, it's just not, ok, well it kinda is compared to car racing, but it still saps plenty of dosh. And realistically, you're likely also right on the "all comers" class. Once a 65 year old CAMS official gets a glimpse of a roosting weapon and has Group B disaster flashbacks, it'll be a wrap. Could get a good year of fun in first though

She's really coming together nicely buddy

Nah, no way, sounded way different..... and I hear he was told "don't bother arriving at Targa Tas with that kit on it."

Gosh, me too! what a boring race, what a boring track it is! And a total dearth of spectators too! I'm really happy with my man Rubens getting a win! Well deserved I don't even want to discuss Valencia.... blurgh, liets just look forward to Spa, maybe Roy and Snowy can give us an insight on where some of these jockeys can pick up a tenth or two?

Giant's so right. we went up and watched the ARC/APRC a couple on months ago, and good God, what a limp wristed bunch of cars Group N's are...... I reckon to hell with running restrictors, run a tough Nissan of any form that spits flames and revs it's nuts off, and you'll be the favourite son of the organisers, because it'll be YOU the crowds come to see, not the panzy limbed Group N crap that can't even get out it's own way. No wonder ARC has been steadily dying, because in my opinion, the driver skill is still great, but the cars are lame. You only need to look at the Australian Off-Road Championship to see where the money's being spent! Toyota's sponsoring a weapon of a Buggy, and US style Trophy Trucks are become more prevalent..... and I think i know why! 800hp and roosting dirt is really cool to watch

Ahhhh, ok. Am I right in thinking he had that on for Wrest Point but removed it for Targa Tas?

Preload it against the handbrake, blip it up to about 6500 to 7000 (creates a little + pressure) and lift your leg off the clutch quickly as you can, not side step it. Bang against the limiter for a second or so until it stops wheel spinning, then bang second home. My kilowatts must be ALOT more manly than DirtGarage's, coz with 313RWKW mine did 11.13 @ 128.5mph on a 1.8 sec 60 foot with a set on concrete Avon roadies

Hooray, well done to Steve for another win, and I'm stoked to see someone caught with a cheat spec Evo, might fright a few dozen other blokes into complying with the regs now! lol I wonder what the exhaust thing was with Puppa Quinn, does anyone know for certain?

Thanks for tidying it up Dunc Giant, I'm in for that, but I dunno about sitting beside you, how will you be without all your flappy paddles, electronic saviors etc..... lol

Oh don't be such an old man Roy! I know plenty of blokes that love the gravel stuff, and at club level it's not as difficult as you make it sound ... unless you bite a tree of course, then the late night work begins, but that's the same in any multi-day motorsport. With any luck Giant might chime in and back me up, he and Mark used to crew/build cars for a national gravel competitor.

Rather than overun the cage thread, I figured opening a new thread might stimulate even more talk regarding the suitability of Skylines/S13's et all as gravel weapons. I've always wanted to do some club level gravel rallying, would be excellent for car control and road reading practice I know we have one active member running a 32 gravel car in NZ, anyone else?

Snore......