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Joisus!!!! No wonder my bank account was empty!

You have the figures we actually used written in the road books so you'd be best placed to know accurately Timmy, but I hope I haven't given Snowy a bum steer by saying a while back that I thought we got around 80 competetive klm from a tank?

Evidently, it seems I have ;) Sorry Snowy :)

Is my memory serving me right Tim saying we did Cethana with a full tank, and really needed before the next stage, but we barely made it through on fumes? If that's right, you're right!

Ill look over them again tonight and try figure out what we used each day.

Yes we did fill up in Mole Creek/Chudleigh before Cethana and we were basically empty at the end. At our next fuel stop we only took on approx 15-20 litres as being the last MPC car through they had run out of the good stuff.

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Snowy from my calculations last year we were using 2L / km competitive. Is it service crew wise that you don't think you can make it?

No - its the distance between fuel stops. Day one from lunch til after Shefield there isn't a fuel zone and I had calculated I needed 68L, and day 2 from the sideling to lunch I'd need 62L - but that was based upon 1.0L/km.

Even 1.2L/km would get me there ok. 1.8L is definitely fine. I know Jeff has calculated his at 1.7L/km so I'm now in the ball park.

But at TWP we hadn't arranged for fuel to be at lunch and we would not have been able to make it up and back to Tahune with the amount we had used in the 21km's we did before the wheel fell off (the tank was over half empty).

We got caught at Queenstown last year. The BP was meant to be open... but it wasn't. We started Arrowsmith with only 1/2 a tank, and had under a 1/4 left when I came off half way through the stage.

Is BP making the old grumpy guy as Roseberry open this year?

Not sure on that Battered sav? Stu may be able to throw some light on it.

MPC is crewing for us again this year, fuel will be where we need it, I reckon the last thing Timmy and I need is to worry about that.... our puny mouse-like brains have enough trouble just "aaaa, dryvink da gar"

the grumpy man yes!

bp are going to a lot of trouble to ensure there is plenty of 98 kicking about

speaking of race suits, i picked a very cool spare one yesterday. as a very generious gift from a mate i got a brand spankers super shiny mclaren vodafone sparco! its the perfect pose suit in silver/white!

and life only gets better as i get the evo back tomorrow from being caged... woohoo!

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the grumpy man yes!

bp are going to a lot of trouble to ensure there is plenty of 98 kicking about

speaking of race suits, i picked a very cool spare one yesterday. as a very generious gift from a mate i got a brand spankers super shiny mclaren vodafone sparco! its the perfect pose suit in silver/white!

and life only gets better as i get the evo back tomorrow from being caged... woohoo!

what evo is this Beno?

what evo is this Beno?

He's learning!!! The old girl looks good in the avatar. Ben V Griffo will be a good dice. My money on woosher, because he has a girl for a nav.(Jokin).

And just because Benno has seen the light - we might have another crack.

:banana:;):rolleyes:;):D

I've been looking to pick up a cheapie second suit for Targa

Ebay search = massive fail!

Ebay Race Suit Search Result

I know AASA is pretty reasonable when it comes to scruitineering, but I don't see them passing this suit somehow :blink:

i just bought myself on of those for the cold night in the mountains

We got caught at Queenstown last year. The BP was meant to be open... but it wasn't. We started Arrowsmith with only 1/2 a tank, and had under a 1/4 left when I came off half way through the stage.

Is BP making the old grumpy guy as Roseberry open this year?

Im still failing to understand his logic.. a steady flow of customers, all filling up.. surely it would be one of his bigger days of the year?

that evo 3 we talked about ages rosco.

not sure but might give it a run at the first round as the rx7 isn't finised yet.

will admit i have late model evo in the back of my mind as a racer if i can find new homes or the evo3 and rx7... fresh built never raced toys anyone?!

Extreme jealousy towards all running, definitely not going to get over there this year. Was going to try and have my own 32 ready with my partner Kat co-driving, but we ended up sinking cash into less important things like property and what not - so it had to take a backseat.

On the upside it means we can keep taking it slow, and sink another years worth of funds into prepping the car without cutting any corners. Beats the six weeks steve and I had to spend on his car last year!

Looking forward to 2010 - will have to get out to some of the other events later on in this year when the car is ready.

Good luck to all will be watching for good results :down:

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Good news! My radiator finally turned up!

Bad news. It's wrong.... again!!

HAHAHAHA hahahaha aaaaaaaggghhh *sigh*

:P

Ahh, PWR. Love them to bits.

I went through the same, um , level of customer service. :D

The intercooler doesn't fit I said.

Your car is wrong they said.

No it fkn isn't I said.

Well send the thing back to Queensland & we will fix it for you said the nice people at PWR.

Needless to say it got fixed locally.

PWR. :P

Just on the phone. They were supposed to be making drawings and then sending us a copy to sign off before shipping but that never happened. They just made the drawings (apparently) built it and shipped it.

Anyways - all the bits that are wrong we can fix locally. It's all just stupid things like the fact that because it is a cross flow there is no bottom tank. So hence the unit is 25mm shorter than a standard one. Only they still decided to put the location pins on the bottom of the shortened unit rather than allowing for the 25mm the unit is now shorter - so it would mean the unit would sit 25mm lower and how we are supposed to get the hoses on is anyones guess.

That's just an example - there's about 3-4 things that need fixing but we can do it here rather than sending it back.

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