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In honour of the DECA Fun Days the SAU Vic Club put on we are having our own event. Ours is called a Texikhana.

In Victoria they all drive up from Melbourne on a saturday to Sheparton which is a country town a couple of hours away. They get drunk, eat dinner and generally have a good time. On sunday they wake up and do the event, after which they all trudge home happy.

We are planning to use the Sutton Road complex near Canberra which is about 3 hours away from us. We have found accomodation nearby for around $30 a head so don't let the whole overnight thing get you down.

The event itself consists a wet skid pan and a dry skid pan with changing courses on each. Cones are set up and you have to go around them in the right way without hitting them and then stop in what's called a gate (a car sized rectangle). You get timed and get time added if you hit cones.

At a motorkhana these courses get quite intricate and people in Skylines will lose every time to those strange people who have dedicated motorkhana cars due to our long wheel bases. Our courses will be much bigger and open to put the balance back in our favour.

Here is Bass Junky showing how it's done.

I am told that tyre wear is surprisingly little despite how it looks.

As well as these type of courses, Sutton Road has a race track. It has trees near it so we will be using chicanes to slow everyone down. We will be doing flying laps throughout the day.

Towards the end of the day we will move into Battle Mode. Basically cars go out on the skid pan in pairs doing an identical course. First one back wins. No hitting cones allowed.

The basic gist is that it's a fun day with a little bit of friendly competition thrown in. I've heard that some Victorians are more interesting in looking cool on the skid pan than getting a good time but how you attack it is up to you.

Now, the Victorians take 55 cars and it gets booked out pretty much on the day they open for entries. They run 4 per year so you can see that it's a seriously popular event. They charge $75, but we are looking around $100 cos we don't know how popular it will be up here. We will put the price down if it looks like our numbers are good.

So cost is $100 to enter, about $30 accomodation, plus whatever you and your car eat and drink.

The reason I'm posting all this up is to get an idea of who would be interested. It will be on September 16. I believe that some Victorians are planning on driving up to participate (and probably kick our arses) as a few of us have gone down and participated in theirs.

If we do it just as good as them then it will be a sellout. It's fairly easy on the cars cos the runs don't go for very long so no overheating.

Whaddayathink?

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evil_weevil Grand Master

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As they say....

weevil ftw mofo's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know Im in Adam...hahah

One thing though - Steve (N1GTR) isnt allowed to have shots cause he embarrasses us :)

For those who have never done anything like this - it is thebest fun, its cheap to enter, and its not as stressful on the car as you think.

The runs/courses go from like 30 seconds to over a minute - so not stressful at all :D

Any driver, any skill can do it :) but if your like me, you'll take 1st place :) (tickets!?!?!?!?!?)

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I'm absolutely in.

Great event and wear and tear on the car is minimal (though last DECA someone blew a turbo). It's really more about skill than horsepower as we saw a uber horsepower GTR rarely get into boost at the last DECA. It is also a very social event - rarely was there a car on the pad without a passenger and there was tons of interaction between runs. I can't imagne a better event for the club.

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In of course.

Neil I think they are looking for more open courses than the cams approved ones for maximum hooning opportunities.

I had fun at the last cams khana i did http://www.hgeconsulting.com.au/khanazed.avi. but we the ones we are running down there will be me open and fun. Adams post has a better example of what we are doing

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In of course.

Neil I think they are looking for more open courses than the cams approved ones for maximum hooning opportunities.

Duncan,,,have you ever looked at the cams book?. There are about 66 different courses and some of them I can even remember.

Neil.

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