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Finally got to take the Silvia out and have a run with the new MCA suspension on the weekend. Worth every cent is all i can say the car was awesome to drive, we unfortunately had to retire after stage 2 with a burst water line under the plenum that we couldnt fix in time but was 2nd outright behind an evo 9 untill then.

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Finally got to take the Silvia out and have a run with the new MCA suspension on the weekend. Worth every cent is all i can say the car was awesome to drive, we unfortunately had to retire after stage 2 with a burst water line under the plenum that we couldnt fix in time but was 2nd outright behind an evo 9 untill then.

Go the S13!! So good to see a cool RWD car ripping it up against AWD evo/rexies!

Go the S13!! So good to see a cool RWD car ripping it up against AWD evo/rexies!
spewing about the retire Jase :laugh: next event you'll smash it!

Thanks guys, thats most likely it for me this year but will be back next year though ready to chase down the AWD's

In car from stage 1 can be found here

Well I finally got my R32 GTST out on the track for Time Attack at Lakeside on the weekend.

Never having driven the car I started off slow and was building up speed.

Blew a turbo and diff for the day and retired early.

Still had a great day and at least I didn't hit the wall. Thats racing.

Posted a 1:12.3400 for the day and still had an excellent day anyway.

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nice man.

it always a good feeling taking a car out for the first time, shame bout the turbo though..

with the cage did you bump it with the hemet much? was it annoying? asking cause i think i will with mine.

Cage was a pain in the arse. I have the seat as low as I can. I am six foot and can't really see the front left side of the bonnet. The whole time my head was either resting or bouncing off the cage to the side above the window. Probably wouldn't without the padding. I will have to find a solution.

Madly sourcing parts to hopefully get another round in before the end of the year. Not sure I will but otherwise back in force next year.

i know its not tarmac but here is a pic of my dirt circuit chassis and engine build so far.

chassis runs quickchange rear end and full coilover plus 5th are suspension set up i have a ve commadore body to go over the chassis and the motor is a 308 with lots of goodies . i know its not a skyline or even a turbo lol so dont flame me :-)mmm says i cant upload this type of file ? any ideas its a bitmap bmp file ?

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i know its not tarmac but here is a pic of my dirt circuit chassis and engine build so far.

chassis runs quickchange rear end and full coilover plus 5th are suspension set up i have a ve commadore body to go over the chassis and the motor is a 308 with lots of goodies . i know its not a skyline or even a turbo lol so dont flame me :-)mmm says i cant upload this type of file ? any ideas its a bitmap bmp file ?

Sounds interesting. Try opening the bmp in Microsoft Paint, then go to the File menu > Save As - save window will show up, change the "Save as type" drop down menu to "Jpeg" - save it somewhere like My Documents and try uploading your newly created .jpg version.

try again lol

i know its not tarmac but here is a pic of my dirt circuit chassis and engine build so far.

chassis runs quickchange rear end and full coilover plus 5th are suspension set up i have a ve commadore body to go over the chassis and the motor is a 308 with lots of goodies . i know its not a skyline or even a turbo lol so dont flame me :-)

ah got it cheers all

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