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found what killed my alternator.

power steering fluid leaked down from my power steering resevoir and into my alternator. big of a bugger as now i have to reseal my power steering, but at least i know what killed it.

its still at Mallala. Its running in the afternoon i believe at some point. All the details are on NS but its having downtime at the moment so when its back up ill find the details and post them up.

yeah just checked out the shannons national webpage

http://www.thenationals.com.au/categories.asp

not to shabby collection of cars, dosnt say how much the gate entry is though :)

thats for people to find out at the gate n say well its too late to turn back home now.

THIS IS FOR SUNDAY

SHANNONS NATIONALS 2008

Round 3 Mallala SUNDAY 18 May

Time Description Category Duration

700 Gates Open

820 Warm Up Tankworld Supertrucks 15 mins

840 Race 2 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge 12 laps

910 Race 2 Shannons V8 Touring Cars 12 laps

940 Race 1 Tankworld Supertrucks 7 laps

1005 Heats Super 8 Drift 4 x 2 Battles 20 mins

1030 Race 4 Ironfarmers HQ National Series 6 laps

1055 Race 2 Supertrucks - Reverse Grid 7 laps

Clem Smith Cup

1115 Race 2 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series 15 Laps

1150 PODIUM: Clem Smith Cup 10 mins

1200 Race 1 Kumho Tyres Aust. F3 Championship 14 laps

1230 Race 3 Shannons V8 Touring Cars 12 laps

PODIUM: Formula 3

1300 Race 3 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge 12 laps

PODIUM: V8 Touring Cars

1330 Race 3 Tankworld Supertrucks 7 laps

1355 Semi Finals Super 8 Drift 2 x 2 Battles 10 mins

PODIUM: Porsche GT3 Cup

1410 Race 5 Ironfarmers HQ National Series 12 laps

1440 Race 3 Tankworld Supertruck Co-drivers 7 laps

1505 Race 3 Kerrick Sports Sedan Series 10 laps

PODIUM: HQRA

1535 Final Super 8 Drift 10 mins

1550 Race 2 Kumho Tyres Aust. F3 Championship 14 laps

PODIUM: Sports Sedans

1620 Race 4 Tankworld Supertruck Superprix 10 laps

1650 Team Super 8 Drift - Quad Drift 15 mins

PODIUM: Supertrucks

just put a thread in events for the super 8 drift. All details, timetables for both days etc is all there.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Su...on-t219018.html

im keen to go check out some other forms of racing so will try and get the weekend off again i think lol.

watch for the current sports sedan lap record to fall with that killer Audi, Corvettes, jag and of course the Alfa all running - would be even better if the DB9 was ready to run this weekend

sports sedan entry list (this is the real V8 supercar series here)

http://www.sportssedans.com.au/images/mallala.pdf

Dean Camm's vette is around 5 seconds faster than the leading V8 supercars around Phillip Island and the Audi is around 4 seconds faster around sandown (the only race i have ever seen a car get a 8 second lead on the first lap!)

the porsche challenge will have a few cars - its the first round of this series so don't expect too much from it. Still will have some nice cars 996cup - RSR + older non turbo porsche's

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