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Thanks to both you guys, Kerry and Nathan. We'll do our best to see you down there, there's a few nights in Lonnie, so no reason not to see you there Kerry. Cheers, Ben.

Sorry mate, I don't have the car any more, but it's really simple to find, it's the only large diametre earth on the driver's side (approx 8mm dia.)...... runs from in front of the right stut tower to the right engine mount normally. Cheers.

Yes, I'd be interested to know also? Accident history? Was it knocked back?

REMIX- I had this exact same issue with my 32 GTR a few years back, and after about a year of searching, it turned out to be excessive resistence in the earth wire running from the body near the engine bay fuse box to the engine block (driver's side). My actual earth cable required replacement, but maybe yours has just a dicky connection or dirty contact? I suspect the issue may be amplified by the engines requirement for plenty of spark at the same time as tryin to engage the front end? Worth a look maybe? Cheers.

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Hi Mark, you sure had some great success there! You must just about know it like the back of your hand having a gold plate! I cringed when I saw you and Garwood crash on Gunn's Plains in '04, lets hope there's no repeats of that experience. I'll be sure to come and say g'day!

Hey Kerry, will definately try to find you! Where abouts is the best steak restaurant in Lonnie? Let me know and we'll see you there mate!

Yeah I have. Been lookin for somethin to lease, and narrowed it to 4 cars to drive. 06 STi, Evo IV, Liberty STi, Liberty 3.0 R Spec B. I'm not into anything euro. And I wouldn't consider an MPS, they're too obviously based on a front-wheel-drive. The whole 4WD settup seems like tryin to p*ss around a corner to me! I drove all except the Evo, which to be honest I went off when I sat in it and looked around it. No doubt a great car, and would be my preference for a targa car or something, but at my age I'm lookin for a little "feel good" factor when you sit in and drive the car. I've been through the whole "stiffly suspended and difficult to live with stage". They really are a tarted up shopping trolley - quality wise. New STi was fantastic, especially compared to my last STi experience (an '02 STi Bug-eye) - handling much nicer (less under), and good (not great, especially compared to RB26) torque spread. Very hard to put up with the immature carpet and trim treatment though, not to mention the insipid body kit. I ruled out the GT by STi fairly quickly, it's fairly obvious that these will be re-released soon as a 2.5l (with a six speed?), and I didn't want to be stuck with an orphan come trade-in time. I liked the 3.0R most, great engine sound, great 'box, crisp throttle response, really nice interior, awesome quality stereo, clean looks (I'd go a black wagon), good ride/handling compromise, just a nice car. Not that fast, but respectable. But compared to turbo cars, no real opportunity to step up the power when you want to. So, for me, I'd still go the 3.0R, I'm just struggling to come to grips with spending $55k when it looks virtually the same as the neighbors 2.0 base model. Talk about keepin up with the Jones'es! Oh, and sorry about rambling too!

*** EDIT*** It's 28th of May, NOT the 25th - I don't know how to change the sub-heading? G'day all, Here's a copy of an email I recieved this morning from John Tetley, manager of Queensland Raceway. Sounds like a great FUN team event, I can see the "TEAM SAU" stickers now! I know a couple of guys who are already planning their attack on it, and was certain there'd be plenty of interest on this forum now that there are plenty of cars that I believe are fast/reliable enough to do the job!!! What do you think? Copy follows; An invitation to race at The rebirth of the Queensland 500 On May 28th Queensland Raceway will have a true long-distance race available to you, the regular motorsport competitors. Entry forms will be sent by request to 07 5461 9100 and entries will close on the 11th of May with the Entrants Information Pack mail out scheduled for May 17th. A copy of the entry form and this invitation will also be available on our website: www.queenslandraceway.com.au - please tell people to ring us or get the data off the site if you discover they didn't receive this invitation directly. What is it? It's a very simple team race concept to give you, the entrants, the maximum possible flexibility in how you participate and enjoy this novel new event. As the name suggests it's a 500 km race which finishes when the first car completes the distance. We anticipate this will take about three hours and 30 minutes. The minimum run time for each car and driver entered is 35 minutes unless there is a certified mechanical failure (for the car), in which case the next slower car must complete the 35 minute period. There is NO judiciary or appeal process for the results. This is a Recreational Competition FUN event so if you're in the "Go Hard or Go Home" camp it may not be to your liking. We are not inviting overseas teams and the rules will be liberally applied by the Race Director but competitor safety will always be paramount. If you have experience with our TopGear race meetings you'll understand and be comfortable with the format. What's a team & what's it cost? General Entry will be restricted to the first 45 correct entry forms received. This may be a dangerous precedent as according to Ron Turvey this means we will have no entries... A team has to have at least one car and up to a maximum of four cars, a minimum of two drivers and a maximum of four drivers, in this way we give you the maximum possible flexibility for assembling a team for the event. The entry fee for each team, including both the garage and pit lane accommodation, is $1250. Each team will be allocated a pit Bay and garage for their exclusive use during the event. The pit lane car ports will be lit for the occasion. Do you have categories? Not as such but we will bracket the teams by adding together the capacity of each car to establish the Team Capacity of the cars entered. Where there are less than four cars entered in a team we calculate the Team Capacity by adding together the capacity of all the cars entered (entered capacity) and then fudging up the Team Capacity. We do this by taking the entered capacity and multiply it by either 4 for a one car team, 2 for a two car team, or 1.33 for a three car team. This means the team rating for a one car team of a 7 litre Monaro will be 28. Supercharged and turbo charged cars will have their capacities multiplied by 1.5 and rotaries are rated as 2.5 litres for normally aspirated and 5 litres for turbocharged. This means a team of an RX7 Series 6 and a Gemini of 1.584litres makes 6.584 multiplied by 2 to make a Team Capacity 13.168 Litres - easy eh? For our first event the Team Capacity brackets have been set as: 1. Less than 7 Litres 2. More than 7 Litres and less than 10 Litres 3. More than 10 Litres and less than 17 Litres 4. More than 17 Litres and less than 22 Litres 5. More than 22 Litres Prizes & trophies will be awarded for teams that place within the Team Capacity brackets. How does it run? It is a Sunday only event starting with scrutineering at noon, qualifying commences at 1:30 for which each team will nominate a specific car and driver combination to qualify. There will be ten, approximately equal performance cars, in each qualifying session and the qualifying sessions will last 15 minutes each; there will be a discretionary qualifying session to finalise the qualifying period. The main race will commence at three o'clock which means we will have approximately 1 hour of racing in the dark, therefore all cars entered must have headlights that work. Specific parts of the track will have lighting and some areas will be in total darkness. All racing and qualifying will be on the National circuit. Who is running it? QR is the promoter and organiser. The event will be run under the AASA auspices to give QR the maximum flexibility with accepting entries for the event. This means you can enter cars with and without a CAMS log book (providing it has headlights). Cars without a CAMS logbook are required to have a full harness for the driver, clearly marked tow points and battery points and at least a half roll cage. Drivers will need to have either an AASA National licence or minimum CAMS C3. What about Pit & Refuel stops? Firstly, dry break refuelling systems will not be required as there will be an undercover refuelling area with a fire marshall. Every pitstop has a minimum duration of three minutes. This will minimise pit lane traffic and ensure teams with professional pit lane crews will not have an advantage over the rest of us mere mortals. Dry break refuelling systems will be required if you intend to refuel in pit lane. You are free to leave pit lane at any time you choose but if there is less than three minutes between "car in-car out" the untaken time will be added to your overall time for the event. For safety's sake a fuel truck with premium unleaded will be used for all competitors not using a dry break system. THERE IS TO BE NO FUELLING FROM DRUMS DURING THE RACE. Any Prize money? As well as trophies we are actively seeking prizes for the event and we have kicked it off with Dunlop. There is a $2000 cash prize for the outright winning car if it's on Dunlop tyres. There is also $1000 for outright second and $500 for outright third place on Dunlop tyres. For each category there will be a prize of $500 against the purchase of Dunlop race tyres for the first Dunlop shod car home. We are currently assembling other prizes for the event and these will be advised to you in the Entrants Information Pack and on the web site as they become available. We have a $500 cash prize for the all Gemini four car team that goes the greatest distance (courtesy of Rod Dawson & John Tetley). Just so you know it's not a setup, Rod Dawson is supposed to be running his V8 Supercar team at Wakefield Park that day - we shall see! Any TV or sponsorship opportunities? Yes to both. Zuraya and her talented production team will cover the event for Rev Central series 3 - we expect it to be our best series yet. Did you know more people watch Briz31 than all Brisbane cable channels combined? There are sponsorship opportunities for the event naming rights, bracket prizes, best presented team, etc. etc. Contact Keith on 5461 9104 if you see an opportunity for your business. Best of all? Our traditional post race sausage sizzle with tall stories will commence at 7:00pm and presentations will commence as soon as we have sorted out the results and who won what. Just to make the point again, in keeping with the AASA recreational racing philosophy, this event is for recreational purposes so do not expect to see, or compete with, top line international teams etc. It is an opportunity for cars that currently do not race in Australia to have a serious run and it is the first of the AASA enduro events and it is followed on the next weekend by Queensland's first AASA National event. Two weekends of making motor racing history in a row, how's that? Don't forget you have ring us for the Entry Forms. Lets have some long distance fun, jt

Aye to that! But I'd run like hell.............

No, there won't be an issue James. Cheers.

I'll give you a grand for it when you run another 9!

Hey Whenny19, good to see mate! What car number? Make sure we say g'day, our crew Chris and Aaron are always up for a bit of mischief! Gee it's getting close now........... Cheers, Ben.

Real bummer Duncan, oh well, keep ya posted! Cheers

Hey Duncan, Sorry to hear you're not going. Are you getting a refund? What's happened? Was Mark in the grey 32 GTS-t that I heard had a head gasket issue last year? I heard those guys went through hell and back! We were stoked with how we went last year. 1st in class (showroom to 60G? I think?) and 1st in category (showroom outright) included Porsche GT2 (a real buzz passing him on Queenstown! We ran a bog stock little bug-eye Sti...AWESOME brakes, NO power! We wanted to go into showroom class again this year, but couldn't land an Evo IX (our preference) until April, so decided to go with a 34, and have to run in limited modified spec. Can't say I'm too dissapointed to be running the 34 though, it's gorgeous! We're stripping it this weekend to do the cage 'cause she's a stocker at the moment. I hope something changes so you can go!

I'll kick it off. Car # - 925 Driver name - Jason Appleton Co-Driver name - Ben Wooster Vehicle type - R34 GTR Targa history - 2005 Targa Tas, 2004 East Coast Targa General comments - We'd do a lot more if the budget allowed!

Hi all, just intersested to see who's going to Targa this year and in what capacity? I was there last year as a nav and didn't meet anyone from the forum! Since motorsport types are some of the best people you can meet, (excepting drag racers generally) I think it'd be cool to meet people into tarmac rallying and!! Skylines! Should be plenty to talk about.... We might even be able to get some ideas together to make it a little cheaper for competitors? eg. car carrying, service etc..... So how about it, if you're going, whether as driver, crew, spectator, whatever, post it and we should try to catch up. How about this format? Car # - Driver name - Co-Driver name - Vehicle type - Targa history - General comments -

Exactly, it sounds like clutch. ATTESSA won't allow what you are describing, as the rear tailshaft is constantly driven via the gearbox regarless of what ATTESSA tells the front wheels to do. The only variable is the percentage of front drive governed by ATTESSA. So if she aint wheelspinning, the clutch is slipping!

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As seen on the weekend. Mint car.

Take a look at this thread for some more comments. http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=74164

Pop the fuse or flick the key to accessories whilst rolling (it will re-engage once you come to a stop again). I might be getting old, but if I needed a daily driver with Absolute reliability, I'd get the 200. I've had both, (my 32 GTR ran 11 flat quarter) but just wasn't somethin to drive every day. If you had to do something to GTR it takes time and money, and when you have a quick one you simply cannot drive them when "it's not quite right". An S15 200 will be a little less heartake I suppose, easier to insure etc, but thats all grown up sh*t! Cheers.

I can vouch for these turbos. I purchased these actual turbos and fitted them to this actual car before selling it to this owner. They were bought brand new from Apexi @ Access wholesale and cost me well over $6G at the time. Whole Apexi kit, lines/bolts/gaskets. If anyones serious about upgrading their low mounts and doesn't wanna be like everyone else with HKS, buy these! Bumping!

There not the same. There should be heaps @ importers 2nd hand. Expect to pay $200 incl fan.

On a 32? From memory there's a hidden bolt under the tread. You flick the tread out with small screwdriver to expose 10mm bolt head. Was 6 years ago so memory may be failing me. Hope its right mate.