Marlin

I just wish I hada seen what was written! Musta bin good! The quick and the dead I suppose!

Make a piece of stanless braided wire swaged to length with a release clip. Fixed at the pressed bonnet latch panel, clip attaches to the bonnet loop. Other wise an old seltbelt works ok using the same method. Cheers.

Atlas Batteries, talk to Rick. He's cheap, he's mobile (based south/west). You'll have to look him up though. Cheers.

It sounds pretty normal to me. The 34 Getrag box will make a rattly/crunchy sound when you remove or modify the original dual mass rubber vulcanised flywheel. They run that flywheel to stop exactly that noise. Thats in addition to the sounds you'll get with the twin plate too... so it should be very noisy!

Brisbane Streetmachines sold the black one, but I hear there's another on the way, a series 2 I think?

Thought I'd post some pics. Thanks to Chrisso 925 for these. (He was the mastermind of the crew's pit shirts! - smart arse!) The poor pics are of #962 (our Suby from last year), after it sustained major damage on Mt Black on day 5. Also a 33 GTR that rolled on the same stage.

Oops! Double post.

Thought I'd post some pics. Thanks to Chrisso 925 for these. The poor pics are of #962 (our Suby from last year), after it sustained major damage on Mt Black on day 5. Also a 33 GTR that rolled on the same stage.

Thought I'd post some pics. Thanks to Chrisso 925 for these. The poor pics are of #962 (our Suby from last year), after it sustained major damage on Mt Black on day 5. Also a 33 GTR that rolled on the same stage.

Thought I'd post some pics. Thanks to Chrisso 925 for these. The poor pics are of #962 (our Suby from last year), after it sustained major damage on Mt Black on day 5. Also a 33 GTR that rolled on the same stage.

Mad if you don't! It's pretty good value per klm I reckon.

GTR all the way! Couldn't go back to an evo now, the oversteers too much fun! We're doin Rally Burnie in July if anyone's gonna be around?

Our Bembo rotors with alloy hats were blue and cracked before we started the stage! And boy, were they shakin!

G'day Mark, I forgot to mention how much the crew and I loved the skids through the official finish at Wrest Point! haha! Gold! There's like no pics of #925 on the web? Were we too fast to see?

Thanks Duncan! As we did last year we ran Kumho's medium tyre (not only because they helped us out a little, but because we LOVE them - they're are massively underated). These tyres perform well in the dry, but are absolutely AWESOME on wet conditions. As we were aware on arrival that it would likely be mostly a dry event this year, we were taking it very easy on these in the first few days, and experimenting with pressures etc to try and minimise the wear. Suprisingly, we found the GTR looked after them at much higher pressures this year (around 38psi vs 25psi last year in the Sti - cold). Half the battle as you know with Targa is getting through on one set of rubber, no use headin out like a hero only to be told you need to change a tyre and cop the penalty (ala Beatty etc...). Overall, they were really good, we only overheated them on one stage (Sidling), but they came back well. The last few stages on day 5 saw it wet, and we actually passed a front running GT3 within about 100 seconds from the start line (leave at 30 sec intervals), so yeah, in the wet, I don't know a better tyre. And we really have tried them all! We still had a little tread left at the end, so I think we timed our push pretty well!

Will do my best, will take a while though I expect, nothin happens too quick around here! If you'd both like to PM your emails I'll forward anything through to you guys. Cheers, Ben. (edit) - just found another on the Silvia forum

No worries! There's a multitude of reason why it could be using excess fuel, but sort your other issues first, then check it again. Cheers.

Can't help you at the moment, thats the only pic I could find on the entire website. But if we get any better quality ones I'll happily PM them to you MIVEC. Cheers!

Thanks a lot! Your guys really did do well too! We'll have to get all the guys together for an in-car footage night! Whatayareckon?

where are you located?

Ah yes, know exactly where you were now! That Proton had a very very tidy young blonde navigator too! Such a shame I didn't get the chance to catch up with her at the finish party! Thats a great spot to view, we were well and truly running out of brakes by then! Couple of hairy moments on the way down! We seemed to have highjacked this thread easily!

4 litres of EXTRA oil? Wow, thats alot! That much excess oil is certain to cause the extra buildup of oil in the inlet tract due to an increase in crankcase pressure and would for sure be dipping the crank, so that may go someway to your terrible fuel consumption (dragging the crank through oil causes massive drag and oil mist on/in the engine). But yeah, you need for repair the dodgy weld, and while your there spray a heap of carby cleaner through the inlet system to get rid of the oil, otherwise you might find yourself forever re-clamping blown-off 'cooler pipes.

Funnily enough I think I did see you! We were chasing down a white Evo IV at the time. Does that ring a bell?

Na, that one (was bayside blue) was Jason's old one who now owns the 34, mine was/is blueprint ford colour, BBS LM wheels. There was some GTR's getting around down there! Saw a really nice silver one near the Silverdome on one afternoon, appeared driven by a "more mature" guy.