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  • 2 weeks later...

i was telling my brother about 1 of the clips where you had that gold commentary from the camera man @ the drag strip "get that up ya v8 carnts!" or something to that effect...i cant find it in this thread.

if anyone has the youtube link, please share it :)

  • 2 weeks later...

That's how u do a farken burnouuuut....u farken weak v8ed carnts!!!

That's right when you live in the HSV capital of Australia, you gotta feed it to those pricks cause they hate imports hahaha nyaanyaa.gif

Doesn't look like we will be drag racing any time soon after this weeks wild floods and winds our local track Palmyra got destroyed.

40ft Sea Container blown ass over tit and the right hand lane just at the finish line the asphalt is all torn up and all the fences blown over. ohmy.gif

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  • 4 weeks later...

Awseome thread mate! Took me almost an hour to get through it all.

Shame about the track hopefully be back together sooner rathte than later.

P.S. love that comment by that camera man that has made my day :yes:

Edited by Ants

Awseome thread mate! Took me almost an hour to get through it all.

Shame about the track hopefully be back together sooner rathte than later.

P.S. love that comment by that camera man that has made my day :yes:

Cheers Mate

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

Hey guys

Haven't done an update in awhile, since the track has been repaired out at Palmyra we have managed to have a couple of runs. The track has no rubber left on fro the floods so the track is super slippery but that's why we have 4wd :). Anyway last night was the debut of the car with the 17" Mickey Thompson ET Streets and straight away the car is 100% better at everything. The flat shifter is working perfect with the PPG box and the car is driving straight as an arrow. With a better prepared track and little bit more power a low 9 is very achievable and will be punching out a 8sec pass in no time. Any way here is a compilation video i made up of the run enjoy.

that onboard rear view camera shows how shockingly quick your car is!

the smoke bellowing out warming up the tyres looks unreal!!!

i look forward to seeing what times u get into :)

Cheers Mate

I Love the Go Pro Camera's they give a real good sense of what it's actually like.... might have to buy a 3rd one. I'm really looking forward to hitting a really quality track like Willow-bank, Palmyra just does't have any grip at all.

Solid pass Ben! I saw that video last night whilst browsing youtube, love the burnout :D

RE: Go-pros... I found the opposite when doing some tarmac stuff earlier in the year. Need adjustable zoom!

Should do a video without the music and just the sound of the car in all angles. Built this big setup and one can hardly hear it :thumbsup:

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