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Dont worry brah... I have seen this situation before... you'll get it running again... even if you have to overnight parts from japan

But I don't have my car anymore.

Its sold to import monster lol

I'll jog your memory...

You were reported to have died on 1 May 1994, as a result of your car crashing into a concrete barrier while you were leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Italy.

as a result of your injuries and now crispy brown skin, you decided to hide away from all the attention as a young sri lankan man living in Australia... you adopted the name Aaron, because it was the first name in the book.

From here you continued to live undercover as a simple car enthusiast, however at one fateful sandown trackday, your raw talent simply could not be hidden!

Here you kept up with far more powerful cars including stagea's skylines, ferraris, radicals, zonda's, pagani's and mclarens.

It was at this point that I realised that I am extremely bored at work... and that YOU... MUST... BE... SENNA...

don't forget as I read on jalopnic this week

lost his virginity to a fat Prostitute at age 13..

Senna that is

I beg to differ, I wAs keeping up fine with the 240kw plus cars down the straight at sandown. It's a very under estimated car

Given above 150kph, is when they start to pull away

Even gave Scott a run for is money in the 350kw Stagea. He only pulled away at 120kph.

Hence why he bought one lol

I want to see this first hand. Not saying I don't believe you

Tonight

Your car vs say Simon/Birds

Roll on from say 70km/h. That's about the exit speed at Sandown onto the coming straight

pulled away at 120...so the start of the straight?

who doing 70 on the start there ,

I'm exiting the corner at around 100-110....

was painfull at rexmas,

got out of the corner great full power down the straight,

Chris Madden going past around 50-60 km/h faster...damn that 330kw...

pulled away at 120...so the start of the straight?

who doing 70 on the start there ,

I'm exiting the corner at around 100-110....

was painfull at rexmas,

got out of the corner great full power down the straight,

Chris Madden going past around 50-60 km/h faster...damn that 330kw...

you are different to other amatuer drivers martin

If you were talking about overtaking me on the straight, that's because I was trying my hardest not to let my engine lean out ;)

Really need to fix that...

Edit:

I wonder if that could have been the cause of the lower power figure on the last tune...

Assuming that a single dyno pull in 4th gear doesn't completely suck all the pressure out of the system but only drops it slowly towards the end... So the upper part of my rev range could have been running at say 80% of the fuel pressure it should be running at. If it was consistant, then that would have been included/accounted for in the tune right?

Pulling hard through 2nd / 3rd / 4th was leaning it to the point of misfire / detonation, so not a great feeling on the straight.

I THINK that the Walbro 255 is affected more by a lower voltage source than a stock pump or the bosch 040 that was in there beforehand... So if I wire up a direct feed to it with a relay coming off the ECU wire, it should pump more...

But will it also have a 100% speed whine all of the time instead of varying at Idle speeds? aka, stupidly loud?

pulled away at 120...so the start of the straight?

who doing 70 on the start there ,

I'm exiting the corner at around 100-110....

was painfull at rexmas,

got out of the corner great full power down the straight,

Chris Madden going past around 50-60 km/h faster...damn that 330kw...

I was more so talking about corner speed of that turn before the straight

If you were talking about overtaking me on the straight, that's because I was trying my hardest not to let my engine lean out ;)

Really need to fix that...

Me?

Nah blue wrx, told me 230kw. If its false then that would explain it

My GTS-T is currently running it's 252kw safe tune...we can test this "Evo is the fastest car in the world" theory tonight...but I think I know the answer already. Short gearing means SFA in a rolling drag, unless you have a substantially higher redline than me and can carry the gear for longer...it just means I have to drop down a gear to be as short as you, comprende? You get the impression that 4th gear is fast going onto the freeway because it's probably the same ratio as 3rd in a Skyline...nothing Criss Angel about it.

On an unrelated note, there's a golf r that always fangs it past my work every day at about this time... God damn they sound sick on gear change with an exhaust, brrrrraaaaaaa CRACK brrraaaaaaaaaaaaa CRACK brrrrraaaa

On an unrelated note, there's a golf r that always fangs it past my work every day at about this time... God damn they sound sick on gear change with an exhaust, brrrrraaaaaaa CRACK brrraaaaaaaaaaaaa CRACK brrrrraaaa

That driver should be considerate and yell 'FORE!' before fanging it past your work.

How ironic that you would say that... Look what is across the road from my workplace...

Boss's Porsche Boxster has been hit a few times by stray balls...

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-37.963638,145.033642&ll=-37.964763,145.032642&spn=0.009744,0.009645&num=1&t=h&z=17

Meh, its only a Boxster...

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