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yeah, definitely not cheap - try having 4 sets of rims! tyres are definitely on my no expenses spared list though.

one set for street, one set for motorkhanas, stockies for drag (which i just sold the other day) and a set of nismo lmgt4's which are somewhere on the atlantic. hello re55!

one set for street, one set for motorkhanas, stockies for drag (which i just sold the other day) and a set of nismo lmgt4's which are somewhere on the atlantic. hello re55!

Yeah, I've got 3 sets of rims (I don't drag).

I've got a set of Nismo LM GT4s for circuit (<3 RE55s), my street tyres, and the stockies are wrapped in Nangkang NSII's. I was going to use these for the Circuit Club Nangkang Challenge (and for dori days) but I went to a skidpan day recently and didn't swap out my more expensive street tyres.

I'm tempted to run the Nangkangs at Eastern Creek on Friday and seeing if I can run under 2 mins, actually.

should we start an lmgt4 club? :D give the nankangs a go, it can't hurt.

however i have found that only the more premium brand and model street tyres perform well at track days. even then they only last a few hot laps before you see your lap times getting worse and worse.

i was paying around $250-300 per corner for some high end yokohamas that would last around 15-20,000km (street and track). money better spent on track rims with semi slicks.

for practices

every second wed arvo (not today, next week)

$40 to drive, $5 to watch

need a helmet, long clothes, battery bolted down ect

starts at 4pm till dark (nows the best time of year for it)

plenty of newbs, plenty of pros and plenty in between. 3 quarters of the feild is turbo nissan import though

most people think archerfeild is alot harder for a beginner over QR. probably because archy is really tight and technical whereas at qr you can just speed into a corner and wait for it to slide out and just try to hold it for the corner. non turbos struggle at QR though, mines screaming its tits off in 2nd but doesnt like 3rd. wish i had decent steer tyres though.

Was on semi-slicks, so I needed the rain as the tired old 97rwkw needed all the help (and revs) it could get! :(

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Does it on gravel most weekends tho :)

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New motor on the way for more N/A POWA!!!

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Yeah the tape on the headlights means when you do tap something the glass doesn't fall out onto the track.

Also saves your lights from being broken by random stones.

baron - yup, it's primarily a gravel rallycar. Still need to do a bit more work to make it hook up on the loose stuff, but it is a hell of a lot of fun!

Id love to have a car like yours screamin!

You must have a fair few club events over there if most weekends? dam thats good!

*gets naughty thoughts of doing something similar to the r31 daily....*

agreed, nothing like a dirty filthy thrash car for rallies and motorkhanas

It is a lot of fun. I keep the roadcar way too mint to drive on gravel roads or compete @ 100% so I had to get another one for that purpose.

As far as gravel rallycars go it's in really quite mint condition! :)

And yip, most weekends there is a sprint or hilclimb on. When they aren't on there is alway trackdays

(like yesterday :) )

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