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I am planning to bring my 'stock' car up for the weekend but won't be doing the sprints.

It will be great just to get it out and have a decent drive! I'm really looking forward to seeing the performance of the purpose built track cars.

Are any of them going to be at Winton for the Friday open session?

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Wow what a turn out of R35's. LOL

Yeah I think we were the only ones there right? :) Your car is definitely prettier than mine!

I had some fun at Winton. Was good to get back in the car and learn some more. Geometry updates definitely helped a lot but we still need to find out why we can't get any boost into this car (anything over 17psi and the engine knocks).

Shame because the Spec V turbo's really want to make lots of power.

I'll chuck up some in-car footage later but 1.34.6 on OEM tyres is ok for starters.

Cool vid snowy, I saw your car in the dry on Saturday and it looked to be hooking up ok. What other mods are you planning?

Yeah a bit lonely with only 2 R35's. I thought SlipR35 was coming across for the trackday.

Thanks Jonny - I've attached the dry laps vid below. You can see I'm still learning the limits of the car / tyres etc. I've only ever really run on R Comps before so the Dunlops are a challenge - especially the braking side.

Shame I thought the car on show was g35me's - else I'd have made an effort to track you down and meet you. Your car was SOOO clean (especially those tail pipes - good job).

For my car we are methodically working through it to better understand the limits. (seems they are quite a bit different to the old RB26's!) Turbo upgrade - which I must say are a great thing for a streetable track car as there is no noticable difference in lag - look like they really need the intercoolers / intakes upgraded to suit so that will be next on the list. Will sit down and work out whether to stick with the standard pull through style intakes or switch to a blow through system. But really that is as far as we are allowed to go with-in Targa regs especially now that E85 is banned for R35's. That being said we still might play with E85 for the Superlap stuff (can run different fuel pumps for Targa but not injectors - but they are an easy swap).

The rest will be in set-up. I've got the Dodson arms in the front and rear now to experiment with geometry. Was running front neg 3 camber and 7mm castor plus neg 2 rear camber on the weekend and it was MUCH nicer - even on the street than the stock standard trim. My new rims are due here later this week (JUST missed the Nats which is a bummer as they are pretty sweet) - but have some R888's to run some back to back tests against the Dunlops as well.

Once the engine / power set-up is sorted and we have a good base line on performance we'll move to the suspension. At this stage I'll be running with KW Competitions because they have good local support and a couple of small design features I like over the US popular JRZ's.

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