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Who's car are you crashing this time?

Fixed that for ya Kez.

Ha ha. Yep! Long time coming.

Having a baby and doing an engine will delay things a bit....

Now to finish the oil cooler plumbing and do some testing before DECA. otherwise I'll be using the wife's mx5.

Deca is good for testing. If you can drive it around a car park you can drive it at deca haha. Sort of...

Fixed that for ya Kez.

Deca is good for testing. If you can drive it around a car park you can drive it at deca haha. Sort of...

Ahem... Yes... Testing around a car park.... Thats what I was gonna do ?

Wayne I'm bringing a few friends down but not sure how many, I will make them do some work, how many do we need for the day to go ahead?

As many as I can. It's mainly the morning I need a hand with.

Cheers..

Then I'll bring the cousins

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

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OK, did the oil cooler plumbing. all good.

Found a piece of cast aluminium that had broken off the engine somewhere - WTF? Discover the screaming fan belt is actually the water pump broken and lost a piece (but no leaks!)! New part ordered and on the way. SO, cutting things fine for DECA with the barge.

Can I just swap cars over at the last minute? I might need to use either the MX5 or new Focus ST...

OK, did the oil cooler plumbing. all good.

Found a piece of cast aluminium that had broken off the engine somewhere - WTF? Discover the screaming fan belt is actually the water pump broken and lost a piece (but no leaks!)! New part ordered and on the way. SO, cutting things fine for DECA with the barge.

Can I just swap cars over at the last minute? I might need to use either the MX5 or new Focus ST...

Yeah can swap cars but don't haha.

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

I really can't confirm numbers now but I'll make sure and let u guys know!

Also how many tyres should I bring (na r33)

skidpan is smooth concrete, doesn't chew tyres up unless you sit on the limiter in 2nd or 3rd for 3 minutes lol

sprint runs are like road surface, no burnouts/drifting you'll be right, but if you bake your tyres and they'll chew out quick haha

if you wanna be super super safe bring 2 spare

I normally bring a second set up for the rears, just in case I get a bit too happy on the day, I'll still have something safe to drive home to melbourne on :)

Saturday 31 August

Patchy fog early in the morning. Sunny day. Light winds becoming northerly 15 to 20 km/h in the morning then tending northeasterly in the evening. Overnight temperatures falling to around 7 with daytime temperatures reaching the low 20s.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/northerncountry.shtml

Lovely :)

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