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...those r34 carbon parts are expensive to fix/replace!!

Benno, The whole bloody thing is expensive... that is why we do it. If it was cheap and easy, everyone would do it. Well done Ben/Tim, we will see you at Georgetown and not before I reckon.

I am in Nigeria, my strut tops are in Holland having some shox hung off 'em, car is in the race shop, engine sitting on stand, gearbox on its way from Ralliart... the list goes on.

Anyhow, hope to be back by April 1, we have a week to bolt the car back together (heaps) quick test at Symmons a couple of days recce then up to the Dome.

"Next year I am going to ready in plenty of time has been my quote every may for the last 5 years"

Tim, you must be like a cat on a hot tin roof - well done and to you Ben for following through - the easy choice would heve been to say bugger it.

Anyhow - its my turn to go and keep watch for pirates.

Ciao

TT984

PS Still the best forum/brand family - I just cant afford a 35. :domokun:

Benno, The whole bloody thing is expensive... that is why we do it. If it was cheap and easy, everyone would do it. Well done Ben/Tim, we will see you at Georgetown and not before I reckon.

expensive, really?... i hadn't noticed... we'll kylie hasn't noticed yet anyway!! :P

Kel you taking Mark's place beside Peter? is Duncan coming down also?

Looking like that would be me :thumbsup:

Just trying to get paperwork, travel etc sorted now.

The D-Man is probably a no-show, possibly a weekend spectator.

Team, "SHAKE n BAKE" ????

Good news Kel! A "get together" is a good call mate, any preference when? You doin sunday or monday welcome party?

Greg, looking forward to seeing you again mate :nyaanyaa:

Stuart, got your email..... thanks :D

Great!

Found the 4wd issue, broken wire under the dash apparently. Now we have this tyre issue :nyaanyaa:

What, availability? We are in the same boat. Just a cock up really... and you dont recon the tyre boys love demand exceeding supply!

I think a plan is to do RT & RB on tyres you may use, and then the take-offs are spares. We are starting from scratch so need 2 x sets to start with...

Anyhow, good luck Ben. See you at the bar hopefully, but we are close in the Q again.

TT984

TT, yes, the size I need is a real issue, but I've heard 235/17's all gone too?

I'll be running one set only, no budget for anything else! lol. I don't even know when I'll get a chance to scrub them in, or the new pads for that matter. Could be a slip-slidin Prologue! lol

In the Q? Sounds like you have your scroot time already, I better ask Kylie on that. The bar is a given, we always seem to meet there, must be some wierd kind of SAU gravitational pull thingy.....

And good work Kel :(

Kind of rediculous when you think 235/17 is the most common size...

Benny do we have much time monday for a scrub and bed?

I hope to spend more time at the bar this year and less working on a car, for those that went to the casino last year i think you will find the bar is all new, as are the prices!

Well it is nearly here - well less than a month. Our thoughts not to run and a last minute change of heart has created a few dramas. Tyres for one... as I let my alloted tyres go, and now after 6 years on one brand, we are faced with the best of the rest decision. ATM Khumo are getting big wraps and although the A048 is quite good, i am struggling going to a tyre that was developed in 2000.

Suspension is another story... because all our data is based on one brand, the set-up will most probabley not transfer. Our Shox are currently in Holland getting OEM top spring mounts fitted because we cannot run camber plates.

Anyhow we will make it hopefully with time to spare. Our report time for scruitineering is about a week early Late Sunday... by then most people will be pissed in the bar.

It looks like being a numbers game - with Porsche being the majority stake holder. Of the 304 official entries (inc tour)

Porsche 60 20%

Mitsi 33 11%

Niss/Dat 27 9%

Subaru 23 8%

Ford 23 8%

Holden 17 6%

Mazda 17 6%

The other 30% is made up of all sorts. It may just be an Evo year, given that one of the best talents in Oz Rally is in the X LWR IX. Our goal is to finish. We haven't done that for a while, for a number of reasons - a couple being operator error.

While the diamond brand has got the numbers on track, we all know which brand has the all the support. Wonder what happened to that lunatic from Japan, he was good value - leaping out of the scrub when a Nissan came by.

So if you see me and I dont speak, take it as a given that we are having fun, and yes we will be more relaxed when it is over.

Good luck to all the fellow punters...

Rocket, look after the old girl, and she will look after you!! Not so much bloody air! V700, A048 V700, A048

V700, A048

V700, A048

V700, A048

V700, A048

buggered if I know.

TT984

Assuming you didn't get my PM about the Dunlops mate?

Me personally, I'd run the Kuhmo's because we did for 2 years (05 and 06) and they were good in the dry, and excellent in the rain.

The only reason I've chosen Dunlops (03's) this year is they were 1 second a kay quicker (in dry) per klm when we ran them back to back against the Kuhmo's.

I've had zero experience with the Yoki's, but suspect the Kuhmo's do work well on the lighter cars.....

Assuming you didn't get my PM about the Dunlops mate?

Me personally, I'd run the Kuhmo's because we did for 2 years (05 and 06) and they were good in the dry, and excellent in the rain.

The only reason I've chosen Dunlops (03's) this year is they were 1 second a kay quicker (in dry) per klm when we ran them back to back against the Kuhmo's.

I've had zero experience with the Yoki's, but suspect the Kuhmo's do work well on the lighter cars.....

Thanks Ben,

FYI we ran into a little trouble with the Kumhos for Evos... they are only 91W (93W required). Think Subi are 90W so they are fine...

So I have another plan. I have rang the Hydro, and asked them to seed clouds a month early this year. So it will be glorious sunshine up until Wednesday, then like in '94 the heavens will open. (I talked this up last year too - but no result)

We have with this in mind chosen to go super-soft... we will use two sets, but because everyone else is on hard the tyre penalty wont hurt us...

No seriously, have taken a punt on tyres and gone to another brand. Dont know what my excess luggage bill will be on the way back to Oz, hope my client doesn't mind.

Did consider the runflat option too... saw an old volvo here the otherday - front right stuffed full of grass to get from up state to the city!!

Thanks for Dougs No. very helpful, and I rang to say thanks but no thanks.

Cheers

TT984

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