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Snowman
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PIARC weekend was fun. Next time out we'll be racing together at the Winton 300 rather than against each other.

femno
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Yep, me. Been running since the start of the season and ive never had more fun in a car! (The GTR is a different beast, I still love it). It is a serious amount of fun with grids as large as 23 (I t

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Correct.Only standard rebuild tolerance is accepted. You can bore 0.6mm out the block. You can take 0.25mm off the head. But the compression has to be with a specified range. It's all in the regs.

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Will try and post up some vids later. The "win" vid is pretty unexciting if I'm honest.

However the rest of my weekend sure was a lot more interesting in a way than my first day.

Sunday morning we had our full audit scrutiny done - of which part was to test the kill switch. What I didn't know is that a kill switch cut-off in my car sends the car into limp mode.

This was only discovered as I headed out onto the track to take my position on pole for race 2. Unfortunately it meant I had to head into the pits and had a DNS for race 2. The fix for the limp mode is a simple plug into a PC and clear the fault so I was fixed 5 mins later but it was a simple lesson learnt on my first race weekend.

Upshot of this was it meant for the final race I started from the back of the grid. Conditions on Sunday were dry so the top GT cars had more speed on me regardless but none the less I was able to make my way from 20th all the way back up to 5th by the end of the 12 lap race. In reality I probably would have ended up in 5th even if I started 5th as the top cars are a good few secs / lap quicker than me at this stage.

But it was great fun coming through the field and was a nice learning experience including some pretty fun passes such as going between 2 cars down the main straight with only a few cm's space on each side.

Was good fun and I look forwards to the next one in Oct.

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Here's the race win vid. Other than trying to go from hero to zero at turn 2 and dealing with lapped traffic at the end (yep I had lapped traffic in a 4 lap race) it's not all that exciting.

Still - here it is.

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