WRX Club - Rnd 2 - Phillip Island - March 12

[Roy]

The GTT/GTST time to beat is Geoff/Adz and me all stuck at 1:58s. We should have all done a litle better with the stickies on though:( Adz had fuel surge, i was dropping back to 5 cylinders and had an engine miss and Geoff was beating the tyres up with worn std sups/settings.

My guess on street tyres the time to beat for thre GTT/GTST guys will be a 1:58 and for the semi guys a 1:55.

[Ant97GTR]

Sounds like Geoff and I WERE on a fairly equal footing before the TT upgrade.....hehehe Roy should be interesting chasing 1:58's on my street tyres and worn suspn. Mental note - take spare pair of undies for turn 1!

[GTRgeoff]

ant 2:00 is the stock tyre best for me. i'm entered and should have lotsa pretty stuff today:D

shocks are replaced, new front gtr bar and wing, new stock diff and hoping for close to 280rwkw.....maybe more.

[ferni]

I only ran 1.59 last time i was there, i must be doing something wrong.

[Roy]

Emre was doing similar times wasnt he? I think its a matter of grunt is good on the straight and can pick up a second or two. But on those long - fast bends/sweepers unless you can carry good corner speed you can easily lose time:(

[GTRgeoff]

PI needs WANG to go fast in the sweepers

Just relax mate....it'll come.

[INASNT]

Yeah I went the twins instead. Was so much easier.

Am running 325rwkw's @ 19psi. Which is just enough.

Nice!!

Will you be running that at the track with stock internals?

[ferni]

He did already at Calder Park a couple of weeks ago

[Snowman]

Nice!!

Will you be running that at the track with stock internals?

You bet ya sweet peppy I will be running that. Will be running 10L of race fuel in the tank just for that little extra protection however (no timing advances or power increases with the fuel - just using for safety margin).

And yeah guys Phillip Island is a track where you will continue to take time off of your PB's for the first several times you go at least as it take so long to gain the confidence (grow the wang!) to get the best out of that track. I think from memory the difference from my best time on my first day there and my 4th day there was 8 secs (1.57 - 1.49). Pretty much took 2secs off every visit.

[Roy]

And you will continue to take time off...well at least i do. It may come down to a matter of tenths, but even little old Wakefield after dozens of visits i found myself going a little bit quicker, be it from out braking myself, taking a different line using a different gear/shift point because of traffic.

And INASNT, your weak:)

I know of several RB25s that are internally stock that have done plenty of track days with more power then you with no prob. Bets examples are two other white R33s that are vvery similar to yours. Merli in his old R33 with HKS3040 and 280rwkws, Doughboy with his 2530/T51 Kai/3040 with between 220-280rwkws. Merlis car especially saw at least 5-6 days that i also attended. Then you have to consider the days at Eastern Creek where i dodnt go, plus the days he did at Wakefield:thumbsup:

If im going to run 1.3bar in my thing with whatever power it gets tuned for, then whats your excuse:)

[INASNT]

And you will continue to take time off...well at least i do. It may come down to a matter of tenths, but even little old Wakefield after dozens of visits i found myself going a little bit quicker, be it from out braking myself, taking a different line using a different gear/shift point because of traffic.

And INASNT, your weak:)  

I know of several RB25s that are internally stock that have done plenty of track days with more power then you with no prob. Bets examples are two other white R33s that are vvery similar to yours.  Merli in his old R33 with HKS3040 and 280rwkws, Doughboy with his 2530/T51 Kai/3040 with between 220-280rwkws.   Merlis car especially saw at least 5-6 days that i also attended. Then you have to consider the days at Eastern Creek where i dodnt go, plus the days he did at Wakefield:thumbsup:  

If im going to run 1.3bar in my thing with whatever power it gets tuned for, then whats your excuse:)

Well I will have to play with my timing and boost setting then since everyone else has up the anti since the last track day i went to, coz my timing is very conservative at the moment and i was only running 1 bar at sandown.

If i blows can i blame you then roy?

[GTRgeoff]

Ignore Roy he is a serial RB20 killa. Run what's comfortable 'cos when your engine goes it's bound to do it big time at that power.

Well the bits are all coming together.....this might just happen. TT has to equal twice the fun.

I remember doing a 2:08 in the wet at the HSV day (edit: actually it was the PIARC track weekend) taking the high line thru turn 1. Taught me heaps about my lines in one session and I was pumped making the lap stick. All experimentation is good but my yucky rear shocks would have been suicide to go really hard through turn 1.

I will stand by my finding too that a set of MOMO carbon race pedals took 3 seconds off my previous best. Not just rice factor.....Put simply the ability to heel/toe smoothly is a huge benefit.

[INASNT]

Andrew

R u gonna be running some sunocorp 110 octane fuel?

Geoff

How are the r34 turbos gonna make 300rwkw in ur setup?

[Ant97GTR]

Oh and Inasnt.......Whats all this about upping the 'anti' since sandown???

All I'm hearing are excuses!!!!

[Snowman]

Denham - Im using the 103 from Rigoli. The advantage of that stuff (compared to the others such as the 110) is that you don't need a log book or anything like that to purchase it.

As I stated earlier it's being used just for some safety rather than performance. As Benno said - for $60 for the day (10L) it's the best insurance you can buy.

But speaking of this fuel - Jack has my drum and I haven't heard if he's actually coming down for sure to this event or not yet. If you read this Jack can you let me know what your intensions are cause if you aint coming I will have to get my drum from you before hand.

[GTRgeoff]

Denham, I understand Snowie got 260awkw so usually GTR's get another 30-40 in rw mode. With the higher compression I'll make more specific power at the same boost of 1.2 bar max. The injectors (440) will deliver enough I think and the bottom end is certainly strong enough so it's worth a try.

[Snowman]

Geoff - before you go destroying anything be aware that my car was 260RWKW's - i.e. no front drive shaft in (as neither Ice nor Racepace have a 4WD dyno.)

So I wasnt making that power at all 4 wheels.

[ferni]

yeah i think you'll have trouble making 300rwkw... those injectors are same size as GTR... andrew was running towards the max of his fuel system at about 260rwkw, the same as me...

so your goal would probably be around 250rwkw?

[INASNT]

andrew, where can i get some of that fuel ur using from?

[Al]

Geoff, are you using the rb25 head or have you upgraded to the rb26 head?

There is no way that the same power could be extracted from a std 25 head, when compared to a std 26 head, at the same boost level.

Also are the R34 GTR turbo's ceramic (exhaust)? If so this will restrict you on boost.