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Richard: I've learn from the past to not take a half assed car onto the track, it only results in broken bits. I still need to get:

Braided brake lines

Decent pads

Semi-slick tyres

Splitfire Coils

Catch Can

Sump Baffles

..atleast before you will see me on a track.

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Richard: I've learn from the past to not take a half assed car onto the track, it only results in broken bits. I still need to get:

Braided brake lines

Decent pads

Semi-slick tyres

Splitfire Coils

Catch Can

Sump Baffles

..atleast before you will see me on a track.

deadset you dont need any of that sh1t. dont get me wrong it's all nice to have but for someone that loves motorsport (and i know you do) dont let the track days pass you by!

the only thing on that list i reckon is really neccesary is decent pads. under $400 will get you a full front and rear set.

sump baffles is a concern but man it will cost you prob around $1K just in labour to fit them. I've got a set of tomei ones in my bedroom and so far they have controlled my oil surge very well from there. People say, do you have sump baffles, i answer 'yes'. problem solved :D

Top Day first Aaron McGill day I have done and tops fun the littel race at end of the day. Nathan from Grey Imports is a good driver and was hardest by far to past as he made his car very wide. Hope to hook up with Aaron M for future days.

PS Always check brake pads prior to the day.

Yeah i was a bit worried in the last race about your 300 catching up to me.... luckily it was only a 8 lap race and i had a HUGE headstart.

Afterwards Nathan said he did a good job of keeping his car as wide as possible for you John :D

oooooooooooook vid is here

very basic recording with completely seteady shost of the straight 4th corner and a few other bits but i think most cars are on there towards the end of the day

quality is pretty good

http://rapidshare.de/files/21858485/Oran_P...-05-06.wmv.html

i made it this way so its good for editing

WTF!!?? I can access it saying denied P2P....AAARGGGHHHHH

Ill put it on a disc for you bish

I have to head over to the inner west today - ill leave it in your bucket of bolts :mellow: - is it still with Nathan?

problems with power out of the right handers is most likely fuel surge (did you have less that 1/2 tank?). it's quite common. the only easy fix is put more fuel in the tank!

Yeah .. when i came back from lunch after the top up it stopped. But when the tank went to half it came back again..

So is there anything i could do other than top up fuel??

well the only proper way to fix it is with a surge tank (really anti-surge lol). Basically you can run your standard pump feeding the surge tank, with a new high flow pump taking it's feed from the bottom of the surge tank.

well the only proper way to fix it is with a surge tank (really anti-surge lol). Basically you can run your standard pump feeding the surge tank, with a new high flow pump taking it's feed from the bottom of the surge tank.

Woah that was a quick reply .. haha.

Think i will just stick to topping up the fuel. The surge tank sounds exp.

Anyway, tks




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