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Had a coilpack fail halfeay through. Couldn't fix it, drove home with 5 cylinders. VL is my mates car. First times he has had it on the road. Very farken slow car in the corners.

FYP

I'm beginning to think no one from T-Bar can drive...

this :P

The silvia was pretty special. loosing on the formation lap takes skill, Skill that Ive only seen once before from Graham in the V35 at lakeside.

Had a coilpack fail halfeay through. Couldn't fix it, drove home with 5 cylinders. VL is my mates car. First times he has had it on the road. Very quick car

was wondering where you were. Saw you for the first time on the roll out onto the track, then once as I came past waving :) where did you boys park? i was gonna say hello, but until we got rolling I wasnt even sure if you were there or not.

thats not my fav layout of track, those corners thru the "dipper" suck for any car

FYP

Ill definitely agree with you their, I must admit i was surprised how "Happy" a lot of the boys were going into the corners

was wondering where you were. Saw you for the first time on the roll out onto the track, then once as I came past waving :) where did you boys park? i was gonna say hello, but until we got rolling I wasnt even sure if you were there or not.

thats not my fav layout of track, those corners thru the "dipper" suck for any car

Hey Bodo, got in a fair few laps before i had to get off with coilpack drama.

I was the ginger haired bloke in the green shirt that came up to you before we started and said hi, had my mate Nick with me. Your 33 is very very clean mate, paintwork is in awesome condition and the bonnet wrap looks good

Only figured out who you were once i seen you in the A-Bomb, tbh i think its pretty cool.... My car not working properly annoyed me a fiar bit and left me in a poor mood come the end of the session

Im currently at work.... Was going to stay late for the drags, but come 4pm the weather was always going to go south so i drive home and my other mates stayed out there. The Bronze SS Ute from the happy laps session ran a 12.6. Chris VL didnt see the track due to an oil leak problem

12.6 is no slouch eh :)

I didn't actually get a chance to line it up

does hard. Makes 408rwhp. I had a "Private Road" run on the way down to the track and he got me rolling in 3rd..... Next run rolling in 2nd at about 65-70km mine roared away

morning all

Ill definitely agree with you their, I must admit i was surprised how "Happy" a lot of the boys were going into the corners

Hey Bodo, got in a fair few laps before i had to get off with coilpack drama.

I was the ginger haired bloke in the green shirt that came up to you before we started and said hi, had my mate Nick with me. Your 33 is very very clean mate, paintwork is in awesome condition and the bonnet wrap looks good

Oh I see, well it was good to meet you then. :)

cheers I do try and keep my car clean, despite the layer of bitumen spots all over it. and I payed enough for it to be straight :)

glad you had fun, and corners can be quite happy for those of us that don't have the power you boys have (nick thinks hes in your league, but hes actually down here with us) :P.

Ya didn't say hi to be :(

us northsiders don't mix well with Woomba riff raff

Im currently at work.... Was going to stay late for the drags, but come 4pm the weather was always going to go south so i drive home and my other mates stayed out there. The Bronze SS Ute from the happy laps session ran a 12.6. Chris VL didnt see the track due to an oil leak problem

4pm? still didnt see you afterwards. most people had gone, and the few cars that were left had been abandoned. I left at around 2:30

does hard. Makes 408rwhp. I had a "Private Road" run on the way down to the track and he got me rolling in 3rd..... Next run rolling in 2nd at about 65-70km mine roared away

skyrine FTW!

Morning bishes.

Can't believe I almost got scammed by some fagott using a hoax PayPal payment notification!

I had this a few months ago, looked quite legit.....I messaged paypal directly and they confirmed it was a scam.

Now a day of Playing Day

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