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nice work giant and james. james, I was sitting by the phone all week waiting for my call up as co-driver but there must be something wrong with my phone as it never rang :bunny:

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That is like saying Mt Everest is big.

Its only a days climb!

Great to see the R32 of Giant and also Bright do well.

Any pics around?

I still cant believe Jamezilla came 4th in handicapped and won his class. Mind you you would be pissed off if a Monaro and utes etc beat you :bunny:

nice work lads

some tops times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yea baby!

and luff is a fag

Awesome result guys 1st and third. I was out at E Creek on Sunday in perfect conditions watching this array of top class cars competing in all the vents. Warren Luff race driver in 700hp twin turbo GT2 did a 1 min 39 something and Russ in R32 GTR did a 1 min 40.67. The Giant boys were hitting rev cut at the start finish line which is well form the end of the straight which is amazing. Lots of EVO's busted gear boxes or transfer cases and one busted egnine>?

hey guys ! thanks for the nice comments and support

the car was going beautifully, nearly all weekend

Mark's driving was unbeliveable!! he really has a handle on how to get the most out of it. me on the other hand had a pretty ordinary weekend but it was enough to get the job done.

yeah we were on the rev limit in 5th before the end of the airport 800mtr sprint about 275km/h :P same with eastern creek main straight, backing off at the start finish line to stay off the limiter.

The GTR was well represented on the weekend with John & Craig in the other r32 as well, the speeds and times were up also it was a very competitive weeekend. lots of smashed gearboxes (14 i think) and a few accidents.

I believe a lot of the gearboxes were EVO's - but a lot of them were on the faster stuff rather than cones.

From what I've heard a lot of them that broke were running solid centred twin clutches and really the EVO gearboxes need a sprung centre.

Well Done Mark and Russ.

As for Evo's breaking boxes, well there was a few, one Evo 9 cracked a rear diff to have it replaced only to have a recently rebuilt box crap 4th gear going opver the ripples at EC. Also another Evo 6 destroyed a box on launch at WSID.

We on the other hand had bad luck also, our box has been a bti dodgy since QLD and since the rollover we only had time to get the car together for NSW, which by itself is a testiment to all involved. We lost 4th gear at Wakefield, but when the car has been on a light tune of 283awkw and a dyno proven 300awkw on a standard box it was only a matter of time, plus we are running a twin plate...SPRUNG CENTRE (had to put that in...). The disappointing thing was after a crap first day we were on the comeback path with the Evo and the Sti and by all accounts should have been top ten, combined with the fact we were granny shifty all weekend to save the box we would have definitely been up there. Still a 107 around wakefield with a farked box is still moving. The Sti suffered from a collapsed front bearing and we could not source parts or a press, despite this the bouys still managed 3rd for the rookies and did not compete for a whole day... (I am sure that loud BOV was missed...). So we packed up early and hit the road back to Brisbane.

Great to catch up as usual with Mark and Russ, sorry that Al keeps touching Marks arse...he really has some problems!!

I know you guys won't be at Vic, but at this stage we may only enter 1 car...which one unsure, but next time we will take Cam's R34 GTR so that if anything breaks we can still have fun!!!

Cheers

Neill

Well Done Mark and Russ.

As for Evo's breaking boxes, well there was a few, one Evo 9 cracked a rear diff to have it replaced only to have a recently rebuilt box crap 4th gear going opver the ripples at EC. Also another Evo 6 destroyed a box on launch at WSID.

We on the other hand had bad luck also, our box has been a bti dodgy since QLD and since the rollover we only had time to get the car together for NSW, which by itself is a testiment to all involved. We lost 4th gear at Wakefield, but when the car has been on a light tune of 283awkw and a dyno proven 300awkw on a standard box it was only a matter of time, plus we are running a twin plate...SPRUNG CENTRE (had to put that in...). The disappointing thing was after a crap first day we were on the comeback path with the Evo and the Sti and by all accounts should have been top ten, combined with the fact we were granny shifty all weekend to save the box we would have definitely been up there. Still a 107 around wakefield with a farked box is still moving. The Sti suffered from a collapsed front bearing and we could not source parts or a press, despite this the bouys still managed 3rd for the rookies and did not compete for a whole day... (I am sure that loud BOV was missed...). So we packed up early and hit the road back to Brisbane.

Great to catch up as usual with Mark and Russ, sorry that Al keeps touching Marks arse...he really has some problems!!

I know you guys won't be at Vic, but at this stage we may only enter 1 car...which one unsure, but next time we will take Cam's R34 GTR so that if anything breaks we can still have fun!!!

Cheers

Neill

GO THE R34!!!! HEHE

Yeah top job to get the Evo there at all, and bloody hell it was a fast weekend!!

cheers russ

As Angry has said, congrats to you & Mark, Russ, very well done indeed :D

It was a real shame we missed out on EC, I was so looking forward to that, anyways there is always next year! & to think if we didn't take Stephen's car down on the transporter, I seriously would have taken the GTR down!

Hopefully we'll see you guys in Vic!

Cheers Cam

If you can get down the week before we'll be running a day at DECA which you'll be at for 2 of the 3 days. Will also give you some good cone practise if you haven't had much before and a few of us can show you some tips.

If you can get down the week before we'll be running a day at DECA which you'll be at for 2 of the 3 days. Will also give you some good cone practise if you haven't had much before and a few of us can show you some tips.

When you say week before, it that the working week prior to the event of the weekend before?

Sorry - it is the Saturday before (August 25th).

And remember also Winton is open every Friday (well most Fridays) so if you came for the weekend before for the 2 days you'd cover about half of what you'd need to know (total time spent at DECA + Winton = 1.5 of the 3 days)

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