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Gonna be a great couple of days. Good variety of cars in the lineup! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.504017609719791.1073741830.253752048079683&type=3

Brendan even though you ran low boost last year I was heavily impressed by your 34, will have to have another ride in it again this year. :) I'm working on getting some cameras from Sony that will measure some race data with the footage, pending if the GPS will get signal out there.

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Gonna be a great couple of days. Good variety of cars in the lineup! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.504017609719791.1073741830.253752048079683&type=3

Brendan even though you ran low boost last year I was heavily impressed by your 34, will have to have another ride in it again this year. :) I'm working on getting some cameras from Sony that will measure some race data with the footage, pending if the GPS will get signal out there.

Hey, Brandon. You have booked yourself a seat, mate! And wait until you see what my good mate Danny at Garage101 has done with the tuning for E85, with a Haltech ethanol analyser in the fuel line. It is almost scary on full boost and the booze! I have also got my HKS DMR camera system set up now so if you can use any of that from the two camera view, you are welcome! Definitely learned a lot last year and the car will be sooo much better this year!

Should be a great weekend! :D

Hey, Brandon. You have booked yourself a seat, mate! And wait until you see what my good mate Danny at Garage101 has done with the tuning for E85, with a Haltech ethanol analyser in the fuel line. It is almost scary on full boost and the booze! I have also got my HKS DMR camera system set up now so if you can use any of that from the two camera view, you are welcome! Definitely learned a lot last year and the car will be sooo much better this year!

Should be a great weekend! :D

Awesome sounds good! As long as it's 1080P resolution I should be able to use it. If it has an option to change the frame rate set it to 25 frames. :)

Don't forget about the Racewars Dyno Day on March 8 guys. $50 for 2 runs. 2WD dyno only.

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This is how my Saturday ended :(

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Bart, did you get a good 1,000m run in?

Ant Scali took the event out running 306 km/h at 17.7 seconds in his 32R, AMAZING!

i got just a tad under 240 on the 1000

Was a awesome time!

Was urs the one that did the drive shaft?

Indeed it did, so much for going faster than last year :(

Great fun! Achieved 251 km/hr on the third run which put me 25th out of 83 cars that attempted the VMax run. Not as much as I had hoped, but learnt a lot. So - more power, less granny shifts, etc. for next year. Still, I doubt there were many cars, if any, ahead of me that were daily drivers!

As usual, the hospitality in Country WA was fantastic. The people at the place I stayed in Dowerin were great and all the local folk who came to talk to me at the event were really complimentary about the car. I have raised over $1,700 for the Children's Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation at the event. Anyone wishing to donate can go to:

https://give.everydayhero.com/au/keep-calm-at-racewars

I will have to get the original piccies from the photographers! Great talking to some of you there.

Cheers,

Brendan.

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Captain Flatbrim it was a bit of a balls up with my entry and I only noticed once results were put up , Down as #73 but had #72 sent to me , results page had Jai Philp down as #72 but he was #10 so no idea on times or speeds :( , No idea what crack they were on but it looks to be some quality stuff :)

Took some volunteers for runs , got chopped , handed out some chop , socialised with some pretty cool dream boats Friday n Saturday nights n seen BOOBS n ASS :)

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