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Hi all here's a sneak peak of the AU at purchase - Wakefield Park, Feb 2011

How much fun can you have in 4 sessions as Wakefield Park on a fun day.

Considering all previous cars, we just seem to cop issues at Wakefield ie Drive shafts flying to bits, gear box failures, slipping clutches, new front brake rotors self destructing on warm up, many moons ago was good in the good old Kingswood, but I gotta say - the SBR AU is the most fun I've had at Wakefield. drivin1.gif__________________

1st - 2009 Aussie Supersprint & (Hillclimb Fastest Tintop) Champion Type SV - R33

1st - 2010 Fastest 6cly Open Class World Time Attack EC

1st - 2010 NSW Supersprint and (Hillclimb Fastest Tintop) Champion - Type SV - R33

+ Various Irace

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Very nice Stuart what will you be doing with this one?

Have you parted with the 33 and 32?

Thanks BOZ22N, this year Irace series - 3 in QLD and 3 in NSW for AU / Taxi, maybe a couple of state sports sedan races.

Still got 32 and 33, Karen will be doing a couple of supersprints and regularity Bathurst in R33 plus there is a couple of hillclimbs I haven't contested, thought I had best go and have a look at, with regret 32 maybe have to go, running out of shed room.

This Saturday 26th, AU will be doing Supersprint at EC as run down for QLD following weekend.

Thanks BOZ22N, this year Irace series - 3 in QLD and 3 in NSW for AU / Taxi, maybe a couple of state sports sedan races.

Still got 32 and 33, Karen will be doing a couple of supersprints and regularity Bathurst in R33 plus there is a couple of hillclimbs I haven't contested, thought I had best go and have a look at, with regret 32 maybe have to go, running out of shed room.

This Saturday 26th, AU will be doing Supersprint at EC as run down for QLD following weekend.

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Hi, Stuart,

Met you at Phillip Island last year when you were going head to head with John Kennedy. Done my first PI 6 hrs and would love to do Bathurst regularity. Please point me to the right direction to get info and entry forms.I will be teaming up with some Sydneysider for the Festival of Sports cars moving to EC this year at Easter. Need to get some track time at EC to prepare for time attach Aug 5 &6. Will be attending Drive Bathurst in November. Hope I will be able to chasing you on a track day to get my lap time down. Busy developing some track cars ATM. S15 298kw/180SX 319kw/GTR33 looking for 400+kw and a S13 with a V8 Chev 340kw

cheers

Hi, Stuart,

Met you at Phillip Island last year when you were going head to head with John Kennedy. Done my first PI 6 hrs and would love to do Bathurst regularity. Please point me to the right direction to get info and entry forms.I will be teaming up with some Sydneysider for the Festival of Sports cars moving to EC this year at Easter. Need to get some track time at EC to prepare for time attach Aug 5 &6. Will be attending Drive Bathurst in November. Hope I will be able to chasing you on a track day to get my lap time down. Busy developing some track cars ATM. S15 298kw/180SX 319kw/GTR33 looking for 400+kw and a S13 with a V8 Chev 340kw

cheers

Yeah, keep in touch with regards to Regularity Bathurst next year. Good to see you're busy. We went from Apexi to Link in 33, also from 440 to sub 400kws - with ridiculous compressor surge on link system, even tried restrictors on intake - works great on dyno, absolute crap on track.

Links going and back to Apexi - will settle for around 420kws as 440, 2.6ltr 25 pound - created to many third gear issues (OSG), but will be at superlap

Cheers

yeah many a man has binned his power FC after being told they are too old, too simple, etc to be sold a "better" ecu that makes the car go backwards. power FC are not the most feature packed but they sure can run a car well. the thing is the smart of an ecu are not always displayed in the raw figures (cell resolution, inputs, outputs, etc) there is still a bit of dark art in the processors and the software underpinning how the ecu works that means 2 ecus with the same specs can run a car very differently. and for nissans the power FC do a bloody good job.

currently I have 2 R32 GTRs. 1 with motec and 1 with power FC. the power FC car starts and idles better than the motec and with the hand-controller it feeds me info on knock, temps, sensor etc. the motec car does run beautifully and is tuned very well but i miss a few of the basic things the power FC gives me (plus the fact I have datalogit etc and can easily tune it myself). If I were starting from scratch in any GTR first ecu would be power FC every time. they just can't be beaten on performance for dollars and every man and his dog can tune one to half decent result.

Hi all

AU had a crap day at the creek, could not get any rear grip in the 2 runs I got in.

Think I may have sorted though, had shocks re-gased and didn't re-adjust valving - could'nt work out why rear bar adjustment didn't help at all, untill on the way home.

Fourth gear had an issue (noise) drained oil and dropped box out - I have got a spare tooth, although dissapointed was happy to break 6 year old Sports Sedan Record (NSW Supersprint) by about 2 seconds with a similar time to the R33's best. 1.40.03 ish.

Karen enjoyed her first supersprint in R33, had some traffic concerns, but was settling in nicely in run 4 but red flagged on 2nd lap. 33 ran issue free.

Will pop some vids up hopefully Monday night

So I am gunna do a hillclimb in it tomorrow - Bathurst Right way State Round.

Congrats to Marek 38's straight up, but watch out for Henry next time.

Heres a lap in the AU, on 2 plus year old tyres - and probably / hopefully one of my worst car set ups for rear and gear box life.

Cheers

Wow, looks like a lot of fun, love the sound too, insane.

Not much grip and arse looks a bit light over Corporate!

Stu, I didn't quite think it was a drift event... :P

Awesome work catching that slide up around the back! I always thought once those things hung the tail say good bye as they have f**k all steering lock!

Watched a bit of the drifting Friday night at EC, me rears were definitely up to i.t

There is no steering lock, we were in garage 23 took 3 goes to get in. Never say goodbye, if you keep your foot in a bit eventually you'll end up going the right way (Hopefully / maybe / sometimes)

Its a myth slicks just let go, cause they don't ! Its just when they do, circumstances are normally under more extreme conditions and shit yeah it happens faster.

Cheers

you must be loving the falc. as much as i love our stupid jap cars nothing beats a car that is ground up built for racing like the falc (or like a GT3 cup car etc). everything is simple, well laid out, easy to work on etc. they are a dream to run next to a built up road car. and I would be lying if I said the sound didn't give me tingles... :)

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