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Bass Junky Grand Master

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I had fun just watching you guy at the carpark at Sandown.

okay, Z-Tune GTR was cool, but really who are we kidding? It just looks like my car with some wheels and a few pumped guards.

Chris, you have my absolute applause for your carpark dori antics. top marks from SAU's resident dori madman.

yep, the HSV sounded great but didn't really go anywhere in a hurry, except on the main straight where it looked super quick.

I got lots of pics and some videos and I'll get to them eventually.

Next year will almost certainly see me entering the Dutton.

Maybe in my car, maybe in something super competitive..... Not sure yet.

Anywho.

You guys all rosked!

INASNT Grand Master

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I had fun just watching you guy at the carpark at Sandown.

okay, Z-Tune GTR was cool, but really who are we kidding? It just looks like my car with some wheels and a few pumped guards.

Chris, you have my absolute applause for your carpark dori antics. top marks from SAU's resident dori madman.

yep, the HSV sounded great but didn't really go anywhere in a hurry, except on the main straight where it looked super quick.

I got lots of pics and some videos and I'll get to them eventually.

Next year will almost certainly see me entering the Dutton.

Maybe in my car, maybe in something super competitive..... Not sure yet.

Anywho.

You guys all rosked!

Sounded like the clutch was slipping most of the way around the track, hence being slow

Snowman Grand Master

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Ok.

A bit more of a report from me about my weekend written in James style.

1. SAU DECA weekends = Super Dutton Cheater Practise. The Mini Wang is our event. Especially for Chris.

2. The Winton Flip Flop can be a scary place.

3. Motokhana's on stoney car parks are the best fun ever unless you are a tyre.

4. EVO's are the ultimate handbrake car but GT-R's look 100x's better when doing one.

5. The silver bullet's limiter was testest thoroughly.

6. Semi comps need to be cheaper.

7. Country police have nothing better to do.

8. Obnoxiously loud cars are only cool for the 1st minute.

9. Lil Blu had a 100kg weight penalty in stickers.

10. It is possible to spend 2.5hrs cleaning a car. But ultimately a 5min job would have been good enough.

11. I lost the 58-0 bet on the very first event.

But enough of that. The weekend was tops. It was a great event and I had a heap of fun both in and out of the car. Cheers to Chris for letting me drive his car and big cheers also to Nige and Karl for getting the car ready in such limited time last week. Every time I do these events I learn something more. I'm pretty happy with 6th outright driver and 6th team. Our aim was 5th and we were so close to that (17points away).

And a big final cheer to all the people who made the weekend so much fun.

Roy Grand Master

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Well I had more fun then I expected. I so need to do more DECAs. Anything that required driving ability I sucked at as I would just get big understeer. The stuff where I could use 3rd and 4th gear the car did pretty well with a few top 20 results and first in classes. But the skidpan stuff…I suck and too many poor results.

I was hoping to do a bit better at Winton but running out of fuel doesn’t help getting through corners, and Sandown felt pretty quick but I was obviously over driving the thing and perhaps the tyres were past their best as the thing didn’t do as well as I had hoped. I even gave the old girl a diet of 1.5bar of TD06 to try and get the thing down the straights…but, ummm no :blush:

I owe a huge thanks to Troy (Ylwgtr2) and Patrick (Ocean) for giving me so much help with the car the weeks leading up to the event. I would have not even gone close to making it without you busting your asses late into the night. Bec and Min for carting our crap around and basically put up with my crap. Also a big thanks to Chris, Jarrod and Ryan for helping out the nights before the event, and my co-driver who did the bestest job ever of wiring up a horn :(

Many thanks to “You are far too kind to the old girl” James who has put up with me when I have been a miserable bastard as I have been missing my car, and using his cars often when it has inconvenienced him. He probably didn’t have as much fun as he should have because he didn’t get a chance to drive the car before the event, and probably thought my car was as fragile as those silly GTR things.

Im happy the car held together and I wasn’t exactly holding back on some of the events. The old RB20 didn’t use a drop of oil or have a drop of blow by even after most of Sunday afternoon at 1.5bar, given a good tune the things seem to love the abuse :) The gearbox though must surely be getting close to expirey?

I doubt I will do a Dutton again, even though I would love to, its just too much coin when SAU put on such good DECA days and the WRX Club do such a good job with the running of the track stuff. Oh and I was told off for being loud and rude last night during the presentation…though I was joking around with the guy later in the night so thankfully I wasn’t as big a goose as I first felt :laugh:

R32gts-t Experienced

R32gts-t

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Your silver r32 gtst is a credit to gtst's sounded like a menace on the front straight of sandown yesterday... :blush:

yesterday was good fun from a spectators pov, bloody deano's s14 again with the bullshit... this time a fuse decided to continually keep blowing, and he eventually ran out of fuses to put in the spot, thanks to a very friendly bloke the car was able to be towed back to melbourne, and he got to finish the rally in the back up car.

great to see nissans out there, well done to everone, oh and watching Adam Newton on the last run of the motokhana shows how good a driver he really is.

saff_cossie Grand Master

saff_cossie

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Congrats to all. You all did really well, was a great weekend indeed

Yes the lights were on, learnt from James, now turned off though :(

Friends, lol!

Fantastic effort to all, well done to all. Didnt make Sandown and Essendon or the Dick but had an awesome weekend anyway. :blush:

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