Jump to content
SAU Community

Drag Strip In Canberra!

Zathris

By Zathris,
in Australian Capital Territory

 Share

Recommended Posts

NAman Collaborator

NAman

Posted
Posted (edited)

Rant <ON>

What s**t's me to tears is the fact that they (Act gov.) spent 3 mill each year for the V8 "super" cars, blocking off streets, special injunctions for the noise and etc and have done little to with the drag strip. Well, except make some noise around election time to get some votes.

You know what s**t’s me even more if they want it they'll push it through. I.e. the evangelist church with 300 parking spaces going up near the Tugg. BMX track... Did you see it in the paper? Did you see any community consultation signes up?

Just like the jail “it is going here and there is nothing you can do about it”!!

Bureaucratic Bulls**t.

They could make this happen quicker but they won’t unless it serves them some purpose.

Rant <OFF>

Edited by NAman
leech_ Grand Master

leech_

Posted
Posted
Rant  <ON>

Just like the jail “it is going here and there is nothing you can do about it”!!

Bureaucratic Bulls**t.

They could make this happen quicker but they won’t unless it serves them some purpose.

Rant  <OFF>

ah you must be a jerra person :) if it was close to my home i would be pissed but as its only close to new south welshmen i couldnt care ;) move to canberra if it's so annoying...

ps if you are from canberra why are you complaining :)

NAman Collaborator

NAman

Posted
Posted (edited)
Leigh, he's not whining about the fact it's going there, he's angry at the fact that there was no real consultation with the community as to it's location.

Thankyou!

I'm in south act,

The "Jail" is one of many examples of ACT Government [both sides + independents +greens +democrats] and the ACT PLANNING Authority lack of consultation and pushing though what they want!!!

But it is probably with all Local/State gov's

My main point is that the ACT GOV spent 10 mill on the V8's over 3-4 years with road closures and ignoring noise complaints. They could spend that on a drag way which would probably last 10 years.

Yes I admit the Drag way will be running longer than just a week and there are no road closures but yet more Bureaucratic Bulls**t to jump though…

I have said my bit-

I’m going to go have a lie down

Edited by NAman
race_snooze Grand Master

race_snooze

Posted
Posted

they should also be putting a track as well just near the dragway, bring the konicka and v8 touring cars here permantly, no need for road closures and lots of $$ for all, from people coming to watch

NAman Collaborator

NAman

Posted
Posted
they should also be putting a track as well just near the dragway, bring the konicka and v8 touring cars here permantly, no need for road closures and lots of $$ for all, from people coming to watch

No they can't Shaun, because that would be the smart thing to do

And they won't get anything out for it them selves

Actually look at the web site posted on the first page- there was a submission to the ACT Gov and the ACT gov committee did their own economic/social study and found it was un-economical, high risk to them and would do nothing to stop illegal street racing!

On an interesting point the ACT police support a Drag way!!

This submission to the ACT Gov by the gov chaired board (in 2004) about the drag way was [in my opion] :

Not written in an argumentative way i.e.: weighting up the pros and cons- it was just the statement of con’s- it was one sided.

Facts and studies for the social and economic perspectives were used- they were always the worse case and were negative- little to none were positive.

It is obvious that the person/s who wrote this was far from pro drag way and really only presented one side of the argument-they may have done this due to political pressure.

Those drag way people have a big uphill fight on their hands !

NOTE the online partition is not recognised by the ACT Government as an official partition. It needs to have you date, name address, signature.- this is not online

Good luck- and hopefully we’ll see something physically to Signe

TR

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • tylink720
      "Cheap" bolt on turbo on RB25DET NEO

      By tylink720 · Posted

      @Kapr Haha yeah thats the one. I missed that you had a built up engine, I wouldn't want to run it on there either then. It was good in my situation just to replace the original turbo on a stock engine. @MBS206Yep definitely not a replacement for anything name brand
    • Kapr
      "Cheap" bolt on turbo on RB25DET NEO

      By Kapr · Posted

      You are selling this? I have never bought something from marketplace...i dont know if i trust that enough. And the price is little bit "too" good...
    • Watermouse
      "Cheap" bolt on turbo on RB25DET NEO

      By Watermouse · Posted

      https://www.facebook.com/share/19kSVAc4tc/?mibextid=wwXIfr
    • Kinkstaah
      Airbox for +T

      By Kinkstaah · Posted

      It would be well worth deciding where you want to go and what you care about. Reliability of everything in a 34 drops MASSIVELY above the 300kw mark. Keeping everything going great at beyond that value will cost ten times the $. Clutches become shit, gearboxes (and engines/bottom ends) become consumable, traction becomes crap. The good news is looking legalish/actually being legal is slighly under the 300kw mark. I would make the assumption you want to ditch the stock plenum too and want to go a front facing unit of some description due to the cross flow. Do the bends on a return flow hurt? Not really. A couple of bends do make a difference but not nearly as much in a forced induction situation. Add 1psi of boost to overcome it. Nobody has ever gone and done a track session monitoring IAT then done a different session on a different intercooler and monitored IAT to see the difference here. All of the benefits here are likely in the "My engine is a forged consumable that I drive once a year because it needs a rebuild every year which takes 9 months of the year to complete" territory. It would be well worth deciding where you want to go and what you care about with this car.
    • GTSBoy
      Airbox for +T

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      By "reverse flow", do you mean "return flow"? Being the IC having a return pipe back behind the bumper reo, or similar? If so... I am currently making ~250 rwkW on a Neo at ~17-18 psi. With a return flow. There's nothing to indicate that it is costing me a lot of power at this level, and I would be surprised if I could not push it harder. True, I have not measured pressure drop across it or IAT changes, but the car does not seem upset about it in any way. I won't be bothering to look into it unless it starts giving trouble or doesn't respond to boost increases when I next put it on the dyno. FWIW, it was tuned with the boost controller off, so achieving ~15-16 psi on the wastegate spring alone, and it is noticeably quicker with the boost controller on and yielding a couple of extra pounds. Hence why I think it is doing OK. So, no, I would not arbitrarily say that return flows are restrictive. Yes, they are certainly restrictive if you're aiming for higher power levels. But I also think that the happy place for a street car is <300 rwkW anyway, so I'm not going to be aiming for power levels that would require me to change the inlet pipework. My car looks very stock, even though everything is different. The turbo and inlet pipes all look stock and run in the stock locations, The airbox looks stock (apart from the inlet being opened up). The turbo looks stock, because it's in the stock location, is the stock housings and can't really be seen anyway. It makes enough power to be good to drive, but won't raise eyebrows if I ever f**k up enough for the cops to lift the bonnet.
×
×
  • Create New...