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I read the docs again. They look great (on the condition you don't have an R32 GTST hey Benny ;) )

But big sumps FTW!

Also I saw in the newsletter the Matt Close car is up for sale. Would be nice if you had the $$$! Does anyone know what he's getting next (I presume he's building something new and faster??)

Yup. Biggest issue is putting a cage in one, super time consuming and difficult to do.

He was saying it might be easier to actually "up spec" from a base vette as they don't have the plywood floor.

I've been told it's a 30k job to put a cage in a plywood one properly/safely.

Bit late, but to clarify license for the phillip island and presumably other targa class rounds. I previously had National Circuit and downgraded to clubman circuit because it was cheaper and covered what I need. CAMS national office confirmed that CC was sufficient for this meet although god knows they could be wrong!

If you are worried about passing a medical this simple you should not be driving in any competitive event anyway....it is very basic.

There is no restrictions having provisional circuit vs national circuit and provisional clubman vs clubman except that you can be refused a start if you haven't qualified (I've never seen this rule enforced).

Looks like I'll be OK to get there but it has been an interesting fortnight (2 new turbs after last day at oran park). Fixed now and seems to be running OK but the car has a lot of work to do in the next 6 weeks (supercars, national supersprint and buller).

Damo I'll see you next weekend. Neil and Tektrader69 are coming along to help out.

I'm not worried about passing a medical.

It's more the fact that you have to find one of CAMS medico's + part of it is the colersterol test which means fasting and blood tests. I don't deal well without a coffee in the morning!!!

So it's just the annoyance of doing it that bothers me. It's like log booking the car. I got the paper work with the cage but I just can't be bothered with all of the CAMS red tape!

Mind you our good friends at AASA are getting there slowly. Our club days we run with AASA have a lot more red tape and rules than they did when we first started with them so I can see the easiness I have now will probably come to an end one day soon.

yep medical is nothing more than a pita....and $56 of my money. I've never seen anyone fail one, there is a guy down here that we call 'ten tummies', he's probably 150-160kg. And he still navs in Targa (the crew has to move the wheels left to right, as the navigators side wears so bad)

hope your bringing your in car camera down duncan.

yeah we use aasa because of the lack of obsticles, but I'm sure this will change soon enough (particularly as they have a few incidents and their insurers crack down). but in the meantime we'll keep running events with them.

lol harsh ben. I'm sure he would have had to do the ECG test if the is over what they call obese.

Kel posting as Duncan here (mwahh hah hah- the power!!! the havoc I can wreak!!!)

I figure it's appropriate to give a quick update from the Phillip Island round of the Targa Invitations in this thread.

Update is the racing was great but our day didn't go at all to plan - you probably won't believe this, but Duncan had a bit of bad luck :-|

Today we enjoyed 30 degree temps at the track - nice for the suntan but not for the water temps when something is not quite right in a gtr. Long story short we could have made a very good attempt at a cup of coffee with the water dumped from the radiator after first practice. A second cup was also on the cards after the second dump after qualifying (where Duncan managed to put in 3 laps- one of them semi decent).

After much head scratching - not to mention loss of skin, bloods and burns - a farked radiator cap was thought to be the problem- the bastard wasn't sealing causing massive loss of pressure.

The theory and fix *should* have been tested in race one, however as Duncan pulled onto the track the boost went goodbye. As the blokes were tightening things up after the inspection of the thermostat, it seems some coolant/crap caused some slippage in the bay and a pipe didn't get as much love as needed. Yup, we'd blown an intercooler pipe.

After some afterhours tinkering (and more skin and blood being sacrificed to the car) we *think* it's sorted... touch wood.

Tomorrow is a rolling start and reverse grid so heaps of fun hopefully.

There are some BLOODY QUICK cars out there this week.

Race was won by Mark O'Conner in a Lotus Exige, 2nd was Garwood in his Porker and 3rd was Ray Hislop in the Ford BF Falcon (which also started from pole and set the fastest lap- not bad for a taxi!).

Yeah I was told yesterday that Mark has a new blower on his little buzz box and it now makes some serious mumbo (over 300rwkw's) so that's not all that suprising really. Better luck for tommorrow Dunc!

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