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lol.... I Do try to listen to it all coz I hate crashing!...... so I have no idea what Timmy's talkin about. :banana:

Yeh not so much you, cos we have a good chin wag on the stages. But I know when someone isn't listening (eg RT 2009) and I was watching my DVD of Brock/Gigney and he is regularly asking 'whats this one?'

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Will be sad to see you out Greg, but I wanna hear some of these in the bush in the unlikely event you don't make it to the grid! KLX32915X.jpg

Ive been looking over the samples ive got of 1-10 and I really do prefer them, but will see how we go come recce. I also prefer the Degree first then the direction (IE 5R as opposed to R5). I feel that the driver (not singling out benny here, but every video ive seen and every driver ive been with), listens to the first part of the call more than the second part, whereas if they here the degree first and they can see the corner they don't necissarily need to ask what it was again.

Ill open this up to discussion though cos I believe it only helps everyone!

Thanks Tim, will manage to stop at Supercheap. Now just by way of a news flash. The driver hears it all and processes what he needs. I only read the first part of the email, but I put the important info later in the call. Us old fellas have small ROM. My brain doesnt like to be trying to remember the aspect while the ballast is telling me the direction. But that is purely personal. Next time you get a chance listen to the notes JR gets from the broadcaster. I would be off in a flash.

May I suggest that when a driver says "whats this" the Nav has called it too early :)

The thing I rarely hear from navigator and crew "My Shout"

BW. Meant the Nissan family - not the limited gene pool mob.

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this will be good to watch. "Glenney says nothing short of a podium finish will do." http://www.zercustoms.com/news/Mazda-RX8-SP.html

It'll be tough this year. If Quinn gets R tyres I recon he'll be unbeatable, if he can't he'll destroy the road tyres before the end of the event. Jim seems to have the GT2 going now, YT and Weeks Lambo's will be up there too, and the Scelta's have superchargers this year. I don't know if the RX8 will have the legs for day 4-5.

...so is this a new model we are going to see in the showrooms? its really what mazda needs if thats the case!

Its unlikely the SP will see showrooms on mass. Just five RX8 SP have been built (inlcuding this car)... a sixith is currently in the build and Mazda will build additional cars if ordered, but their not cheap!

The car is very cool, they're fully trimmed around the cage and they keep all the comforts of stereo and a/c just like the RX7 SP did.

Thanks to Russ yesterday for letting me use and lending a helping hand corner weighting the lil girl. Good bourbon too :( As usual, sharing workshop space with the heavy hitters (hope some speed rubs off) :(

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Pretty happy now too by the way. Car weighed 1249kg with virtually a full tank of juice.

Thanks to Russ yesterday for letting me use and lending a helping hand corner weighting the lil girl. Good bourbon too :( As usual, sharing workshop space with the heavy hitters (hope some speed rubs off) :(

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Pretty happy now too by the way. Car weighed 1249kg with virtually a full tank of juice.

Yummy!

Pretty happy now too by the way. Car weighed 1249kg with virtually a full tank of juice.

LOL - mines is only 450kgd heavier than that!

Slgihtly off topic but I saw "Love the Beast" today. Awesome - although my Mrs did start crying when they showed highlights of a few big stacks. The movie does make us all look a touch insane but it really was a great watch with some top footage from Tassie.

phat mr30 - currently changing servers so everything is running on .com.au for the short term... although the new motor sport part pages don't seem to be running.

sav_man - it was doing some big drifts at the shoot so should be good reading, even if only for the pics!

Thanks to Russ yesterday for letting me use and lending a helping hand corner weighting the lil girl. Good bourbon too :) As usual, sharing workshop space with the heavy hitters (hope some speed rubs off) :D

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Pretty happy now too by the way. Car weighed 1249kg with virtually a full tank of juice.

Look sgood Ben. Do you still have the Apex susp under it?

Also, 1249kgs, is that with the toolbox on the seat? Curious to know if you know what you started out with as your think would have to weight at least 50kgs less then mine...id hate to think that mine is over 1300kgs but probably is :D

Look sgood Ben. Do you still have the Apex susp under it?

Also, 1249kgs, is that with the toolbox on the seat? Curious to know if you know what you started out with as your think would have to weight at least 50kgs less then mine...id hate to think that mine is over 1300kgs but probably is :)

Nice catch hawkeye, can spot a Bluepoint tote box at 20 paces! lol :D

I had 20kg in that box, to mimic my extra weight over Tim my nav. The 1249 was without that 20kg.

Unfortunately I can't tell you what weight we started with, but remember, no stereo etc in this. It's also an 89 plate and apparently, they're 30kg or so lighter than later ones? I'm not certain?

It's all the little bits that we pulled out that add up. For instance, half hour spent in the back netted a 5kg loss, cutting back speaker wire, removing unused brackets and bolts, removing wiring and timer for rear demister, that kind of thing. Do that a few times and it adds up.

I don't have a massive turbo and external gate either!

And Snowy, I think your added kilowattage with make up for more than that weight difference! lol, after driving mine on saturday near Russ' place the big problem I'll have is keeping tyres on the thing, it's just so much fun sideways :D

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