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I had a great day. First time at Winton and andfirst time on a track for 2 years. Unfortunately my day was cut short with the loss of 3rd gear synchro :D

Fanatstic time there Dane. I wias really impressed with your speed coming through the s onto the straight. I think Ray might need to get some wider tyres for more grip, otherwise there might be a new SR20 ontop. :P

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Hey Nick, thanks for the compliments mate. I was really trying to nail that section, and it seemed to pay off, apart from one hairy incident! whoops haha :D

You should be pretty happy with your time too mate, very quick times mate considering you were on street tyres! Sorry to hear about the box, I just broke mine a few weeks back...

It's because we are cool John! :nyaanyaa:

Have already been talking to Charles from Autosalon and we'll be bringing a whole posse of these cool cars upto Wakefield for Rnd 2 of that Circuit Battle in November.

Watch out for the Vic invasion.

You guys get some awesome roll up of tough cars down in Melbourne town for some reason way more than Sydney or anywhere else in Australia.

You better believe it John!!! :) NSW lacks some quick circuit GTR's, plenty down here in Melbourne :blink:

Cheers,

Jack

P.S Times can be found here http://www.racetime.com.au/?event=w0608

Chr1st Dane, didnt realise that your car had a kevlar Recaro!!! NOICE!!!

And all the mod rwd guys into the 1:39-40s your first goes there...thats 2 seconds quicker then i have gone:(

It would be so much more fun to be out there with some more cars in mod rwd...its killing me sitting out all these rounds.

...Thats it, i have decided im taking holidays and going to get my car back on the road...all these SR20s, need to get the yard stick out and see if the RB20 can keep up :thumbsup:

2.0lts belong to 4cyl's, you need real power Troy, get a 2.5 mate!!!! ;)

I know you want too.......;)

:D

**Stirs the pot**

Too all GTR owners, i do realise RB26 is KING, just the 25 i alot more affordable :)

Actually, when i get my car back on the road, if the massive exhaust leak is something minor then im sticking with the Trust setup and 2L, which means all my new gear/manifold etc will be for sale. If the manifold is cracked etc i will probably finish the new engine...but im looking at stopping the spend on the car. I have spent more on my car the last 2 years on my car then i did the previous 4 years and i have done next to no trackdays....doenst make sense and is shitting me. Try doing 14-16 track day a year to none the past 12 months, and only doing 5 or 6 the year before .... :thumbsup:;) ;)

Yep will be great to have you guys up to the Circuit Battle and no not many tough GTR's or anything else up here for that matter.

I have a new mech started here at UAS who has done some improvements to the Slot Car. He worked for East Coast Suspension up here in Sydney who are a very good race Suspension workshop, and his last job was 2 years for a V8 Super car team. He has also pit crewed for lots of Konica cup and Porsche race teams etc Anyway he has sorted out my slot car. We now have digital corner weigh scales and found my car was way out and adjusted now and sorted also as I suspected has massive bump steer problems and now sorted. Went out to Eastern Creek last Friday with some of the Zed clan and SAU boys although it was wet and oil on the track so no good. But you guys had better have your s.... together or an old bloke in a boat my beat you.

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Yep will be great to have you guys up to the Circuit Battle and no not many tough GTR's or anything else up here for that matter.

John, i feel very strongly about UAS needing a demo R32...i know the perfect car :D

Then you can give them grief about a boat and an old man beating them as well as an RB20 with a hillbillie driving :D

Yeah go Roy and good to see you are still having a go or sounds like getting ready to again. Will stick with the Zed its has got potential and if everyone had a zed I might get a GTR. I think GTR's are a great track car and awesome road car.

Re the tyres maybe, mabye not and not advantage in the wet at least. Re the Hoosier semi slicks may or may not be better than the other semi slicks at twice the price Dunlop or Bridgestone which is the main reason I use them as they are cheap. The guys up here are always looking for a reason why the zed goes so well and I have given up explaining why they are under estimated. Check out the latest Zoom mag for a story on it and explanation about the physics and facts of the matter. I may well go faster with other semi slicks.

I have been using old and quite worn, but free slicks in Sydney for years and the guys ap here are always saying yes but John you have slicks. I have said many times yes but old, hard and worn and if I had new semi slicks I reckon I would be faster. So I finally bought some and go out and guess what?? .37 sec faster at Oran South than best ever on slicks and many goes at that with slicks. My zed does have a lot of GTR part in it though. Oran South did a 47.99 compared to 48.36 best ever. At one point there I said OK guys I give up I am top driver and my workshop are unreal, but set up and driving has a lot to do with it, however the car is under estimated and not such a suprise for those in the know. I might add not many serious GTR's up here compared to you guys. Although a well set up S15 could well beat zeds and GTRs. I won't mention GT3's.

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Hey John, no doubt the zed is very quick around the track, I admire your persistence and the fact that your different to others. Its good to see something out there other than a Skyline performing so well...

I think the main difference between your car and the GTR's down here in Melb is that they can be daily driven, on the street. Most of us guys haven't stripped out any weight and you know how much of a lard the GTR is.....

I guess what I'm sying is that its hard to compare a street GTR to a fully race prepped slot car, and we won't even start talking about tyres!!!

Would be great to see how the cars compare on the track if this track day at EC was to eventuate... after all I here EC is a HP track....

Although a well set up S15 could well beat zeds and GTRs. I won't mention GT3's.

The quickest GTR's down here are faster than the GT3's.... and as Jack said, our GTR's are also full road cars, not stripped, and i still drive mine to and from work everyday (but i'm one of the slow ones).

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