Winfield Racing / Gibson Mototsport GT-R on the track again 18/08/02 Eastern Creek

[Shell]

Well, the GTR came out on the track after all :D

that thing sounds sooooooo nice!! :eek:

I was standing right next to it when they fired it up *drool*

pics are here

[Birty]

Does it compare to the HKS one ? Shell, i'm so jealous, you've gotten to hear and see two of the toughest GTR's ever.

[Shell]

hehe yeah i know Birty, pretty cool ey?

Most people were there for the other cars....so there was hardly any crowds around it at all (strange...but true! silly people LOL). See the pic where it's driving thru the other cars back to the shed...no one's paying it any attention!!

I even heard one guy say "is that one of those cars that raced at Bathurst ages ago?"

It sounded SO tough on the track :D

[Birty]

Were they getting up it though ?

[Shell]

No, he wasn't getting right up it, but he went hard enough to give us a good show

[Birty]

oh shell, that's almost criminal keeping that beast on a leash like that

[Shell]

this is true Birty :uh-huh:

understandable though...would you go hard and risk smashing it if you owned it? :eek:

[88silhouette]

hey shell

mate, how good was the bloody godzilla? that thing sounded tops when it flew down the straight. i wonder what sort of speed he reached. i was having a chat to mark hooker (guy in the pics next to the car with the winfield shirt) and he said the owner of godzilla owns the famous exa and two hr31's. what a beautiful car the r32 is. shat all over that falcon with the silly paintjob. shame there was hardly any nissans there, besides the 300zx's in the Z Car Club stand. that r32 was the highlight of the day - why there was hardly anyone checking it out, i have NO idea! stupid bastards. we gotta get some nissans together at that nissan cruise at the end of the month.

cheers, MARK

[fatz]

yea it sounded good alright just made me want to rip of all the mufflers of my r and drive around near re-line

trust me to bump into kyle but not you shell (havent even met you but kyle isnt anything to look at)LOL

bugger

pete

[32ZiLA]

Thanks for the pics.

Looks great.

[32ZiLA]

Was it the owner driving it?

[88silhouette]

terry was driving the gtr mate

[Silver-Arrowz]

Went and saw it too.

The King (of the mountain) has returned....

[Southo]

Pics here also...

http://www.infctd.net/pf/180802/

Big thanks to Darren (CressidaV8 from Performanceforums.com) who came to the rescue and supplied the required 1" drive 600 ft/lb torque wrench needed to tighten the wheel nut on each wheel. ( these tools are about $1800 each, hence they are not in your average tool kit)

in full race trim, they used to tighten the nuts to about 800 ft/lb of torque ( yes, that's LOTS)

Terry told me if it was raining also that we wouldn't be taking it out (remember the last time it was driven on a race track, in the rain what happened ( refer Bathurst 1992 video) ) - understandably, Terry did not want to damage the car.

I didn't get there until it was just going out, so didn't get to install the camera after all.... there is always NEXT time

It will be on the track again shortly - (not sure if it is for public knowledge yet) - but as soon as it's announced I will let you knwo

[Shell]

hahaha, Pete you might have been standing right next to me and not even known

who's Kyle?

[Southo]

OK, the date and location can now be made public

It is...............

In the new post I am making up now.....