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General Meeting - Tuesday 16 March

Bec

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R31Nismoid Grand Master

R31Nismoid

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Indeed - see whomever tomorrow.

Should be a very interesting guest speaker.

I'll also bring along a DVD with some Bathurst footage from 1990 just to keep the good flavour of the night going for people :)

saff_cossie Grand Master

saff_cossie

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Indeed - see whomever tomorrow.

Should be a very interesting guest speaker.

I'll also bring along a DVD with some Bathurst footage from 1990 just to keep the good flavour of the night going for people :D

1990 should be a good year!

I will be there to say hello. See you there :thumbsup:

Birds Grand Master

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Indeed - see whomever tomorrow.

Should be a very interesting guest speaker.

I'll also bring along a DVD with some Bathurst footage from 1990 just to keep the good flavour of the night going for people :D

*Holden fan wishes to withdraw his attendance at the general meeting*

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WYTSKY Veteran

WYTSKY

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interesting night, glad I came to see what it was all about.

I was pretty shy. will try to speak a bit more next time, I was actually shocked that I would have been the youngest there, thought there would be lots of p platers and maybe a hero or two, but was really civil.

wanted to know, is that a normal turn out?

Also, I was trying to work out people and who their username would be... it does not work, will have to ask people next time!

Adam

Rekin Grand Master

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interesting night, glad I came to see what it was all about.

I was pretty shy. will try to speak a bit more next time, I was actually shocked that I would have been the youngest there, thought there would be lots of p platers and maybe a hero or two, but was really civil.

wanted to know, is that a normal turn out?

Also, I was trying to work out people and who their username would be... it does not work, will have to ask people next time!

Adam

I was the chump hanging around the guest speaker and asking him GTR questions as he forgot to mention anything about it haha (he used to be my boss at work :blush: )

Did you talk to me outside? I remember someone saying something towards my direction but didnt know if it was directed towards me. I just remembered that I have met you years ago haha

Ripped off R31skyline forum member who attended;

For those who didn't go, R31 specific stuff, he mentioned the recall of GTS2 wheels - to determine whether to recall them or not, they wanted to find out if the cracking gave the driver enough feedback (vibration/wobbling etc.) to do something about it before the wheel fell off. They got an angle grinder and cut through a spoke, couldn't tell any difference. Cut through another spoke, no difference. Kept cutting through spokes, kept driving, couldn't notice any difference. Finally had only *one* spoke left between hub and rim, still drove as normal, no vibration, but when they went through the slalom the wheel finally fell off. So they recalled them as they thought the driver would get absolutely no warning before catastrophic failure.

Also mentioned the moulds and tooling for GTS bodykits were lost when SVD closed down, so they had to recreate them for spare parts, but GTS owners were not happy with the quality.

Also mentioned R31 diffs, said they changed many diffs under warranty, but the replacements were just as noisy.

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WYTSKY

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lol fair enough, to be honest, didn't make enough eye contact with people, so I didn't get a good look of you or anyone. need to try to get there a little earlier next time ( not right on 8) and chat a bit.

R31Nismoid Grand Master

R31Nismoid

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Was a good meeting.

The talk from Will was quite interesting indeed. Big up's to him for coming along for a chat :yes:

A lot of what went on back then without the aid of serious computing/modelling and so on in amazing.

The "gutter" test was simply astonishing to hear... i mean who would think cars are driven into gutters @ 60km/h, locking front wheels just before impact just to ensure a car is ok... that was just wtf :blush:

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A lot of what went on back then without the aid of serious computing/modelling and so on in amazing.

The "gutter" test was simply astonishing to hear... i mean who would think cars are driven into gutters @ 60km/h, locking front wheels just before impact just to ensure a car is ok... that was just wtf :banana:

They still do the gutter test these days as well. It was painful/awesome to see the FG XR6T run though the test.

Unfortunately I can't remember because it's been a couple of years since working in durability, but I do know that there is some requirement where the vehicle must drive into the gutter and either not lose any fluids and/or be able to still drive safely off the road... or it could be something else; we only did the test once while I was there.

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