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mad082 Grand Master

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ummm, if you are using it for a drag car then why did you remove the handbrake? using the handbrake is a good way to load the car up on the startline for a quicker takeoff.

as for needing a car for racing against high hp cars on a test and tune made me nearly fall off my chair laughing. do you think that your car is going to be fast enough initially that a high hp car will still be next to you if it loses control? i can see the point in doing it in a faster car, but while the car is still a NA rb30, i wouldn't have bothered.

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have you ever been on the drag strip?

its more of a saftey thing than anything else. accidents do happen on the strip and it only take a split second for it too happen. what if i was to go up against a high hp car (and with the test and tunes you go up against anything) something happens and it slames into mine cause its crossed lanes? then what? i smash into the barrier or slam up against it, or flip the car even, anything can happen.

why take that risk?

because that high hp car will be half way down the strip crashing before you get off the line.

what time is a 30de gona do 11-12? lol you'd be better off dragging a civic.

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NA_Goodness Grand Master

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Whats the point of you guys coming in here and flaming Cara for building a drag car? Who cares what she starts with? Who cares what she builds? It doesnt matter if its a drag car, drift car, circuit racer, even show car. Her car, her money, her choice. If you dont like it, dont bother posting! Honestly I couldnt justify building a dedicated drag car as I'm into drifting myself, but I'm not going to have a go at her because of it. I think its good that she's doing something out of the box. More then can be said about the rest of you!

As for the 34, I kinda like it. Not how I'd modify one, but different anyway.

Keep up the good work, Cara!

zebra Grand Master

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I think its good that she's doing something out of the box. More then can be said about the rest of you!

Im all for doing things differently, but...I know for a fact that a decently engineered supercharger setup will cost more than $10k and even spending that much I doubt the car will be quicker than an RB30et with a shitty ebay turbo setup.

Its being different for the sake of of being different never seems to end well for anything.

TBH Id ditch the supercharger idea and build a mad ITB'd 26/30 if you really dont like turbos.

Look at it this way. my mate has a VS SS commodore with a 355 stroker, head work, cam and an intercooled supercharger strapped to the side.

he got the shits big time when I blew his doors off at willowbank in a near stock 33 gtst despite his car making 400rwhp.

Why...because at 4000rpm he has all of 2psi.

vortech / powerdyne / raptor superchargers are fine if you like dyno comps but are just about useless in the real world.

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MissR34 Grand Master

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oh hey....

um yeah a few things have happened since my last post whenever that was.

6/3/2010

this morning on my way to whyalla i had a car accident. the trailer started to fishtale and i lost all control of the car and ended up with the car on a angle in the ditch and the trailer on flat ground.

i was driving at the time and i cant really remember what happened. both the axles are snapped on the trailer and the car i was borrowing a write off. my friend had to be air lifted to hospital with a back injury, he had slipped a disc a while back and they think that the accident has flared it up again. the 31 unfortnatly has some damage, which i dont know the full extent of, all i know is that she is missing a front guard and the bonnet and front bar is damaged from the photos that my mum took.

so yeah she will be out of action for a while so i wont be racing at Mildura for the Easter Meet in a few weeks time

other than that had a few trans problems just with not taking off in the right gear and all that funky jazz, was hoping to have sorted that out this weekend but due to the car accident the car will be out of action for a bit

got her time down to a 10.03 and won 2 elimination rounds a few weeks ago at mildura for a street meet, and that was against two 7 sec cars.

anyway here is a pic that was taken at Round 3 of the Charlie Dennis Memorial Trophy at Whyalla last month, its a good pic as she has lots of lift at the front, she was launching even harder at the mildura street meet

00743_SCDC_CD_Rd3_Feb_2010.jpg

alr33x Grand Master

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Whats the point of you guys coming in here and flaming Cara for building a drag car? Who cares what she starts with? Who cares what she builds? It doesnt matter if its a drag car, drift car, circuit racer, even show car. Her car, her money, her choice. If you dont like it, dont bother posting! Honestly I couldnt justify building a dedicated drag car as I'm into drifting myself, but I'm not going to have a go at her because of it. I think its good that she's doing something out of the box. More then can be said about the rest of you!

As for the 34, I kinda like it. Not how I'd modify one, but different anyway.

Keep up the good work, Cara!

well said i was thinking the same thing reading through here, thankfully everyone is different and so you get a mixed bag of cars, show/drag/drift/street whatever it might be.

at the end of the day be thankful it aint a comonwhore :P

bad luck about the accident sounds like it coulda been a heap worse!

mad082 Grand Master

mad082

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sounds like the car may have been too far back on the trailer and didn't have enough weight over the drawbar. i have been driving a car with a trailer loaded up by someone else and had it start getting taily happy. pulled over, moved all the weight foward and it drove so much better. have seen a vw beetle on a car trailer cause the same thing to happen as they had it loaded on foward and the beetles being rear engined caused the tow car to get tail happy down a hill and end up off the side of the road in a ditch

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