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Hey Guys,

These are what i took in the last hour or so of track time. Dont ask me if i have anymore as the rest are crap. It was the first time i've used my SLR for drifting and the camera wasn't set up properly. Im happy to give out the full size files to those that are good with photoshop :P

http://s871.photobucket.com/albums/ab277/D...C%20prac%20day/

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it doesnt look that bad in the pics

just get a head light and a gtst reo and bumper and with a garden edge lip,

looks tuff, cheap and wont brake when u hit stuff :P

but i do love my gtr bar :)

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hey russ, we should have a GTR reo and bar at driftline if you wanna swing by.

Awesome mate. I'll call tomorrow.

it doesnt look that bad in the pics

just get a head light and a gtst reo and bumper and with a garden edge lip,

looks tuff, cheap and wont brake when u hit stuff :P

but i do love my gtr bar :)

Garden edge lip?

I can't imagine my car without a GTR bar haha. I'm hoping to get a genuine one so I dont crack it when I hit cones. Haha. I do it a lot...

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It's a shame about what happened Russman but its good to hear the damage isn't too extensive.

I really struggled in the morning. After having a handbrake that only ever locked up one wheel I decided to get all new genuine cables and a pair of project mu's brake shoes, and now the handbrake works too well, it's ridicules! Whenever I went to use it, before I knew it, I was backwards, especially in the wet. After spinning so much in the morning it really shot my confidence, and I wasn't game to go in the tandem line, which I think made it worse because after having to wait 10-15mins the tyres were stone cold.

I ran a really aggressive alignment on the day and it felt like I was really fighting the car all morning, but after driving in to Benella at lunchtime and getting an alignment the car felt so much more predictable, not to mention having massive amounts of front grip in the expression sessions. I just need to practice for the practice day. :)

Thanks to Vicdrift and all of the volunteers who helped make the day possible.

Russman Grand Master

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It's a shame about what happened Russman but its good to hear the damage isn't too extensive.

I really struggled in the morning. After having a handbrake that only ever locked up one wheel I decided to get all new genuine cables and a pair of project mu's brake shoes, and now the handbrake works too well, it's ridicules! Whenever I went to use it, before I knew it, I was backwards, especially in the wet. After spinning so much in the morning it really shot my confidence, and I wasn't game to go in the tandem line, which I think made it worse because after having to wait 10-15mins the tyres were stone cold.

I ran a really aggressive alignment on the day and it felt like I was really fighting the car all morning, but after driving in to Benella at lunchtime and getting an alignment the car felt so much more predictable, not to mention having massive amounts of front grip in the expression sessions. I just need to practice for the practice day. :)

Thanks to Vicdrift and all of the volunteers who helped make the day possible.

What did you do with the alignment?

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What have you done to my car Russ? Awww man! :)

I have my old reo as well that you are welcome to, has been cut to suit the HKS intercooler and it clears GTR bars so you should be all set. Grab it off Mick while you are getting the intercooler.

If you are stuck for headlights then let me know as i hate my std jobbies and want to get a pair of N1s which are black on the inside so may be able to come to an arrangment on ligths as well. So i may grab some from Japan if you want to buy mine

...and your car is a circuit car...not a drift car :dry: . I drifted my car for about a 12 months and after having an acco which meant i just kissed some tyres and marked my bodywork soon realised that panel beaters earn more then me and cant afford to go drifting :D Plus drifting at Calder soon got old, but was still a fun thing to do of a Sunday afternoon

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Plus drifting at Calder soon got old, but was still a fun thing to do of a Sunday afternoon

At least you got to drift at calder, gotta make the trek to Winton these days.

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What have you done to my car Russ? Awww man! :D

I have my old reo as well that you are welcome to, has been cut to suit the HKS intercooler and it clears GTR bars so you should be all set. Grab it off Mick while you are getting the intercooler.

If you are stuck for headlights then let me know as i hate my std jobbies and want to get a pair of N1s which are black on the inside so may be able to come to an arrangment on ligths as well. So i may grab some from Japan if you want to buy mine

...and your car is a circuit car...not a drift car ;) . I drifted my car for about a 12 months and after having an acco which meant i just kissed some tyres and marked my bodywork soon realised that panel beaters earn more then me and cant afford to go drifting :D Plus drifting at Calder soon got old, but was still a fun thing to do of a Sunday afternoon

Yeah I just love the sideways action. I can't get enough of it! When our drift sil80 is built I can make mine a lot better at circuit. Having a compromise is a bit hard sometimes.

So do you have new reo then? How come you changed it? Are your lights projector headlights? mine are/were the ones without the projectors. They're a bit rarer.

I feel bad pulling all these parts of your car haha.

I wish they still had drift at calder. I never got the chance to go when it was on.

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White GTS-T

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What did you do with the alignment?

After having too much grip at the last practice day I decided to back the rear toe off to zero, as apposed to 2mm toe in (total) but it just made the car far too oversteery and really I needed all the grip I could get in the wet. On the front I started running 4mm toe out (total) and at lunchtime had it backed off to 2mm toe out (total) on the front and 2mm toe in (total) at the rear. I don't think the extra toe out on the front was such a bad thing but I just wanted to run a setup that I was familiar with. I think next track day I will run 4mm toe out up front and 2mm toe in at the rear.

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It's a shame about what happened Russman but its good to hear the damage isn't too extensive.

I really struggled in the morning. After having a handbrake that only ever locked up one wheel I decided to get all new genuine cables and a pair of project mu's brake shoes, and now the handbrake works too well, it's ridicules! Whenever I went to use it, before I knew it, I was backwards, especially in the wet. After spinning so much in the morning it really shot my confidence, and I wasn't game to go in the tandem line, which I think made it worse because after having to wait 10-15mins the tyres were stone cold.

I ran a really aggressive alignment on the day and it felt like I was really fighting the car all morning, but after driving in to Benella at lunchtime and getting an alignment the car felt so much more predictable, not to mention having massive amounts of front grip in the expression sessions. I just need to practice for the practice day. :)

Thanks to Vicdrift and all of the volunteers who helped make the day possible.

where do u buy project mu's brake shoes, i need some for the next winton

i hope my clutch and 31 gear box holds up, iv got no time to insall the 33box and a new plate

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Russman: You are right, but personally the car just felt too oversteery in the morning. Having said that though, it probably had more to do with the lack of front end grip in the wet, but because i didn't get to try the allignment in the dry it's a bit hard to say, next track day i'll try something in between and see how that goes.

Dreadr31: I got mine from here; http://www.japaneseimportspares.com.au/par...tegoriesbrakes/

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