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Back in banana land now. I did stay over a day just to meet with a few nsw liners. Good to hook up folks.

I spent 3 solid days at the track just prior to you guys doing your thing, I must say, i am insanely jealous that wakie is down there and not next door to me.

I burnt up over 200 litres of fuel, totally trashed a brand new set of RE 55's. My rib cage is still bruised because i left my harness at home. Diff is shagged, open wheeled for the 3 days, I reckon there is one solid black rubber mark the whole way around the circuit....In short, I had a freakin ball!

Will definitely make an effort to grab a couple more northerners and try to join you for your annual track day.

Cyall some day soon folks. :)

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I wondered why you were packing up early!

Again, great looking GTR. That R34 with you guys was just a perfect example of a clean, understated weapon. Love it.

What broke in the box exactly? Also what power is it making?

Thanks mate! :P

racing the car yesterday with 350awkw (Jems dyno) and 3rd gear didnt agree with the sticky re555 in second gear coming out of the last turn shifting to third at 7krpm, as i put my foot into it - it went bang!

I wish i could own the 34 :( under the bonnet holds HKS T04z, hypertune plenum etc absolute sexual :)

Top effort Ben!!!!! the seconds will continue to tumble as you have more fun.

Liz - those times are awesome! how long have you been racing?

Cheers

Steve

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hey steve

thanks mate......I've been racing for a few years now, but I used to have a car ridden with problems which always cut short the days... so it's really rewarding to see the car last the whole day and deliver the times

im pretty stoked with the time tbh as it's 4 seconds off my PB down there but even though I'm still about 3-4 seconds off the pace, I can see where to pick up that time (my first time on semi's so it took a bit of getting used to!), so next time I'll be chasing down 1.10 for sure! Nice to have it in my sights! hehe

shame your car packed it in for the day... but you ended up with 1.10, and from what everyone was telling me they were also a few seconds off the pace with such a cold track temp! Either that or they were complaining for nothing lol

I had no problems with the track temps, infact my oil was only running at around 120c in the afternoon as opposed to 146c last time I was there in January (37c day temp tho).

I might look at putting a larger oil cooler on it though as the engine is air cooled.

Liz, I did get a tiny tiny bit sunburnt on the neck :P

i mean more to do with tyre temp not getting up to temp

but i have zero experiance on the subject... so I'd be interested to hear some more views.. what's yours?

it could have just been that other 180 driver whinging lol

mate ... I ALWAYS carry sunscreen..... I just forgot to offer it around!

So much fun :P:)

wow, i can see why you guys love this circuit stuff. my first ever track day and i absolutely loved it. Set myself two targets, no off track excursions at all and a 1:20 lap. Got both done and called it a day a very happy bloke!

Great to meet you noel, hope to see you and some QLDers down next time :)

Also great to meet all you guys with that 33GTR in the garage next to me, sucked about your gearbox. Also, good call on my brakes, they were metal to metal by the time i got home so another session would not have been wise at all; thanks for the brake fluid top-up!

Congrats on the times Stu and Liz, great stuff!!

i mean more to do with tyre temp not getting up to temp

but i have zero experiance on the subject... so I'd be interested to hear some more views.. what's yours?

Takes me a lap longer to get my tyres up to temp compared to a normal car because im lighter but they were still up to temp within 2-3 laps every session of the day. I actually had to knock pressure out of the rears towards the end of the day because they were going too high.

great effort Sean, your car sounded strong on the track. And also a good idea to keep it on the black stuff. Something i havent mastered yet lol.

My little brother had a good day in his Ford Focus lapping in 1.20s. He had the help of some new Azenis on the front and some used yokis on the rear but was very smooth. Good for a NA focus.

Great to meet Noel. Unfortunately didnt get to drive on track with him....next time.

Sorry i didnt get to spend as much time with everyone that i would have liked. We were chasing a tuning issue and it took us 3 sessions before we recovered any data so we were stressing early on.

The car was seriously lean all over the map. in places afrs were 16.0. Just goes to show the difference from a dyno tune to a track tune. After getting it sorted the car was making alot more power down low and really pulled at low rpm in 3rd which i saw alot of on this track. Was brushing the limiter in 4th in the last session and seeing 240kmh just before turn 1.

The diff slowly deteriated and i was single wheeling out of the tighter corners so called it a day. Happy to have got the tune sorted though. Now just have to re-build the diff centre and buy some tyres.

Very happy with the lap times in the last session.

So much fun :P:)

wow, i can see why you guys love this circuit stuff. my first ever track day and i absolutely loved it. Set myself two targets, no off track excursions at all and a 1:20 lap. Got both done and called it a day a very happy bloke!

Great to meet you noel, hope to see you and some QLDers down next time :)

Also great to meet all you guys with that 33GTR in the garage next to me, sucked about your gearbox. Also, good call on my brakes, they were metal to metal by the time i got home so another session would not have been wise at all; thanks for the brake fluid top-up!

Congrats on the times Stu and Liz, great stuff!!

Great to see so many nice skylines out there on Anzac day.

Conditions were perfect!

Managed to get down to a 1.14.6 in the final session which was good for me and the old boat. The next step is semi's and coil-overs I think!

Dani.

Ben - update your sig :D

I was waiting for Natsoft to be updated with the session 3 laptimes, which it now has ;)

I've got 2 (1 lap each) videos of Stuarts car from when he was just tuning and 3 full session videos of my car in amongst the traffic. They are super large files so i'll wait a day or 3 until my broadband plan is upgraded so it will only take me an hour to upload them instead of a week.

how large? it's probably just the format .. there are free windows apps that can let you compress it into mpeg4/xvid and stuff of that sort which should bring down the size quite considerably (just think how 'intarwebz moviez' are 700mb for 2 hours)

wish this was on this comin weekend ..I always miss these big sau events by a few days ;/

I understand file formats and compression however im playing around with 1920x1080p, 25mins, 2.5gb mp4 files here :)

Even after trimming them down, reducing the resolution and compression they are still just short of 1gb :D

put the one lappers up brus.....

I understand file formats and compression however im playing around with 1920x1080p, 25mins, 2.5gb mp4 files here :(

Even after trimming them down, reducing the resolution and compression they are still just short of 1gb :merli:




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