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Ok where to start.

Firstly we only just got it done for the race meeting and 60 odd minutes is not enough for testing thats for sure. In saying that though we knew at least bits and pieces would not be falling off the car.

Compaired to the corvette and the cup cars we were behind the 8 ball to begin with as they have had over 20 hours of track time and are very well set up at this point in time, we are not.

On the test day we lost the power steering hose very early so had to run with armstrong steering for the remainder of the weekend, which wasnt so bad anyway but would not like to drive like that for 45 minutes our 22 minute stints were long enough.

Had gear box troubles later in the day as we lost 4th and 6th which left us with 3rd and 5th to get round the track, even so we were just under 2 seconds off the cup cars.

Replaced the box on thursday night to a standard box with a very very slow change and very very tall gear ratios. In the end it was only 2 gear again really but we got the gap down to less than .5 of a second and put it on 6th in qualifying and with 2 porkers being scrubbed for cutting the white lines we found ourselves on position 4 for the rolling start.

Long story but we did go backwards during the race with slow changes against the sequential boxes in the corvette and cup cars also our diff was slowly killing itself over the race duration but still managed to come home 7th.

The car is great to drive very deceptive to just how fast it is you swear your traveling very slow yet find that you are not working very hard to get good lap times. Our 1:07 is just about 6.5 seconds faster than the best the old skyline had done yet you were driving like a mad thing to get those times.

no its not, they were mega dollar drive shafts which i still dont have grrrr.

Seems we had a broken fitting on the diff cooler and its pumps the oil out sadly diff centre is still ok thankfully but complete rebuild required for everything else.

And quaife 6 speed sequential on the way also now .....................

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