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Thanks to you all for coming and big thanks to SAU crew organising it.

In regards to the EVO8 (FQ400), we still have lot of tuning to do and try different cam combination. We believe we could crack 350awkw on pulp.....we'll see how it goes next week or so.

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Thanks to everyone who had some involvment in organising the day. While I got to run after the kids all day, Keith got to talk to some of you, which was good :P Have photo's which I will put up soon. R34 not running well at all, breaks down about 4500rpm, will need a re-run when problem is fixed!

Well what a great day!!!! Arrived at about 1:30pm and couldn't believe how many people/cars that were there.. Really great turnout..

Big thanks to the SAU committee for running a very smooth and trouble free day, and more importantly to Ray and his boys, they went through 40 odd cars on the dyno, very quick and efficient...

Thumbs up to RE Customs!!!!

Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come down, renew their membership, join the club or just to hang out and have a chin wag!

Big thanks to Mav for organising and the rest of the committee and anyone else who helped out on the day and made it successful.

Also, huge thanks to Ray and RE Customs for hosting our event. A great supporter of the club!

As for my day, very disappointed by results. About 75kw down on what I exepected but meh *shrug* I guess I'll have to work on it to bring it back up. Tune looked pretty crappola so Ray is going to have a look at it along with a couple other little issues I have with the car.

Congrats to all the prize winners!

Sounds like a great day and some awesome power from the Evo 8.

Well done Mav for organising and good team work from Chris and Scott on the BBQ by the look of it.

Finally we see a picture of the hoist Matt's 34 seems to live on! :P j/k

Kyle Como 98

woo! 5 free kw's! :P

Awesome day and as well a big thanks to RE for hosting the event! Such a pitty I couldn't have the R there but hopefully by the next one she'll be going strong and i'll be in it for max power not least :laugh:

Nice to meet the Vic crew, thanks Matt for letting me go on the dyno....... There where some awesome cars and the kw's of the other r33's where mad.

I am sorry I let the r33 GTR boys down.......

Yes it is my R33 GTR with 143.4 or 144 kw @ the wheels. I was very disappointed when I went home and checked againts my other sheets. Then a brain wave hit me AVO was done in 3rd gear..... 175kw 2 months ago......

So I thought some more 2 months panel beater no driving dust..... OK maybe it might need a service and a tune.

ReCustoms and my first dyno done last year before my NISMO parts where done in 4th so thought OK I will check it out what I have lost 15kw in 4th WTF......

Then I hooked up my notebook to the ECU on the GTR on Sunday morning..... ECU is in limp mode WTF..... Checked a whole heap of stuff timing is out, this is out this is not set correctly, boost wound down by it self from 10 to stock........

So I thought some more, I had a flat battery when I picked it up 2 weeks ago. OMG the ECU is reset back to Factory!

So my plans now is as follows paint protection then new tyres because the ones I have are shot......

Then off I go to get my ECU remapped and boost wound up. Next year unfortunately :P

BTW the things that are on my car is as follows for those interested

NISMO Highflow CAT

NISMO Highflow filter

HKS CAMS kit

Speed Limit override AVO

If you want a stock list it is as long as most of your guys MODS list :unsure:.

They are the only things changed on my car. But my car definately looked good. ;)

For those interested My car was resparayed at Lightwood Autos 6 Newcombe Road Springvale. Ask for Travis

Mav. well done..

It was a great day

And thumbs up to Ray and the guys

Also Paul n Sarah for spending all day on the table doing memberships ....

Not to forget Chris and sometimes Scott on the BBQ

And yeah i love the key ring (SAU MEMBER) very nice

Also good to meet a lot of new people .....

Cheers .......

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