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^^^ hearing you on the RSZ. Soiled my pants at TT this year thinking we had over cooked one a fraction given the confusion between the differing placement of the lead in signs... Thankfully they were obviously giving us a little bit of leeway.

My take on the Targa carnage is the same thing that caused me to have my epic fail. The repeated stages. The conditionns can change massively between runs with people cutting corners and dragging shit on. And i guess there is always the temptation to try to get a bit quicker on subsequent runs....combine that with piles of gravel in the corners... nasty!! Imagine repeated runs at Riana... We would all have pics for our pool room walls like Ben and Matty!! :)

I hated the RSZ this year. Lost 20 sec at Mersylea when we slowed down for some road work signs that were left out.......that wasn't even a RSZ. But even in the proper zones, I found it much harder to judge than the chicanes

Exactly. Rsz's always create confusion. Where if you hit a chicane, well, you hit a chicane.

Rsz's are like the computers in R35 gtr's..... too hard and simply impossible for me to pretend I'm interested long enough to begin to learn :P

How about this for Early Modern? It's the German version of the R35.... completes with automatics gears boxes.

http://my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/1/cid/522/id/5526/Default.aspx

Wow pretty cheap...

Yeah I know that........ after all this time it still kinda freaks me out every time I hear it. Regardless, if they don't have any inherent weaknesses (and I don't know if they do?) it would still be quick in the right hands.

Yeah I know that........ after all this time it still kinda freaks me out every time I hear it. Regardless, if they don't have any inherent weaknesses (and I don't know if they do?) it would still be quick in the right hands.

Still a pretty quick car though. When I was testing Mel's GTR at Qld Raceway last year just after we finished building it, that Porsche was out there. It was a good couple of seconds faster than me each lap. I was on 8 year old Yoky 32's, and only running about 260kw, but the thing would pull 5 car lengths on me down the straight!

I can see you in that Benny, and as a bonus after a few years you would have a closet full of unused left race boots!

I noticed the Porsche of Win formerly owned by Matt Close now driving a TT RS with its understeer of fail has had 10k droppped off the price. That would be pretty special for EM. Although Porches, a bit like GTR's scare me. Buying them seems to be the cheap bit. Keeping em running is the pricey bit.

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/1/cid/522/id/1947/Default.aspx

I noticed the Porsche of Win formerly owned by Matt Close now driving a TT RS with its understeer of fail has had 10k droppped off the price. That would be pretty special for EM. Although Porches, a bit like GTR's scare me. Buying them seems to be the cheap bit. Keeping em running is the pricey bit.

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/1/cid/522/id/1947/Default.aspx

Been for sale for a LONG time, I reckon you could squeeze him. But yeh the Stuttgart Tax hurts! Seeing the costs when things goes wrong on a 944 is bad enough, a turbo would be 10x worse!

Yeah Timmy,

hear all sorts of scary stories of 40k engine builds and the like. A major failure of any kind would kill my racing budget instantly. I reckon he would have to be getting pretty negotiable by now. As you say, its been out there for a loooong time. You definately have to price your race cars right to get them sold in a sensible time frame.

My shitbox rice coooker might happen yet... :) Considering you can get a decent rolling shell for about 3k, people are asking pretty substantial prices for fairly basic finished ones. I kind of struggle to look at buying a finished car unless its exactly what i want or possibly priced cheap enough that it still stacks up after I change all the stuff I dont like. Kind of leads me to want to start from scratch as i would want to put a substantial cage in it.

A few finished options below, but nothig that I reckon is a really nice finished package.... other than the genuine moffat one maybe.... But rather get a Lambo for that money lol.

http://www.my105.com/listingdetails.aspx?id=5538&latest=1

This one is the look I would go for....but 30k for something not quite finished.....

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/1/k/rx7/id/5513/Default.aspx

Tassie car

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/1/k/rx7/id/5335/Default.aspx

And then we just get sillier...

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/2/k/rx7/id/4970/Default.aspx

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/2/k/rx7/id/4486/Default.aspx

http://www.my105.com/ListingDetails/tabid/65/p/2/k/rx7/id/4899/Default.aspx

Edited by Darkside

Blaise a mate of mine down here runs one in IP, I think he bought it for $25k, but has spent a truck load on it to get to where it is

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and two race meetings in a row he has had to do this

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I reckon your right though, build a car from scratch and then you know what you have

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