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Vids!

Testing on the saturday:;

Race 3 on Sunday:

Leeboe - yeah boe! Not sure if I'll make it for either though. They are running the "long" version of Te Onepu - 2.3km or so and then Pukeora on sunday.

Second race weekend has just been, and what a weekend for it!

Spent saturday Afternoon testing the car (after a drama over losing the fuel cap and trying to find another fuel cell type cap to borrow!). It was a good day for testing with decent weather and not too many cars out on the track. In a run by myself I managed to do a time of 1:20.8 - nearly 2 seconds faster then my previous best.

Race day came and the weather stayed good. I run in "allcomers saloons" in the 1:23 and faster class, so this sits me mid / rear of the pack for normal style grid starts. Started in 21st for the first race and swapped position with quite a few people, to finish in 21st . Fastest lap on race day was 1:21.4 which I'm happy with. Had a really good battle with the orange Macbuilt Corolla (also 3SGE powered, and my 3S conversion was also done by Macbuilt), managed to stay ahead of it until he spun into the hairpin. This car has been my "target" so I'm really stoked.

Pics:

Small vid (sound sucks!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KFOcpYEUiM

Car looks really good. Did it handle ok?

Oh actually I've changed my mind!

Mine would be a Toyota MarkX, have been thinking about them since I came back from Japan. The High spec models look nice and go well. Would go there.

Eh? I have retro cars magazines in my toilet / on magazine rack Richy. May have been from before gallerey 10 closed though?

That is offensively ugly

Quoted for truths

how can you not quote that agian

what

Yuck.

Z10 soarer would also be a sweet daily .

Lexus IS250 - because I wish I was rich.

Otherwise a 505gti Wagon in Manual - because I like driving heaps of shit .

They are SO cool! An old mang came to work in one and I was jealous as fuck. Had a sweet front lip and other bits of "sport" detailing. Hope he comes back again so I can swap him for a thicknesser or something.

One I saw was like this but more sports:

Yeah, I reckon they should be fine as well.

What kind of tyres are they? And has it been raining the whole time?

Haha I like the freshly painted suspension parts dangling in the office!

Sounds like they are old and off. Could try rubbing them down with petrol? Saw them doing that when I was doing work ex servicing karts at Daytona .

It does soften up the rubber, but mostly it sounds like you have just bought average tyres?

Sounds like good Value for $6500 to me.

Found some pics that dad took of the car in the 90's at the onekawa st sprints in Napier.

In other news, I had my first race day in the weekend! Took a lot of work to get there (Finding out it needed a wheel bearing on thurs night and a few other niggles). Ended up getting out for 2 laps of testing on the saturday before the track closed.

Then in a wet race 1, lap 1, I got rubbed up against by a super 6 and wanged into the back of an HQ that had slowed down to avoid the same super 6 who spun on the next corner. Bent me guard, headlight cover and broke both the RH Facelift eye lid and the facelift indercator. Didn't care, just kept racing.

Race 2 was really mint, also wet, Hanidicap start from near the rear of the pack. Had a sweet battle with a pile of Civics, a swift and an E30 Bmw. the fastest civic spun off the hairpin and splashed crap over the cars behind. Was pretty cool.

Race 3 came along and was to be the last of the day, the sun was out and the track was dry. I was put in the group 2nd to last in the handicap start. In between races we had adjusted the brake bias to try and give a bit more rearwards stopping power, it felt great during the warm up lap. This was followed by sitting on the start line, revving and looking forward to a good race... Only to have the clutch give up on the start line. . That sucks. But thats racing.

< Hows that for anticlimactic?!!!

So I now have 4 weeks to do a clutch, fix up the panels and hopefully have enough money left to race.

Watch this space.

Fun car to go for a ride in I love the spacious front and rear bench seats.... It's actually a 6 seater car .

I have a couple of pics uploaded but forgot to blank plates.

If I were you guys my plan would be to get mashed at, fall over and cut head, then crash in his bed early on... Re: OTP at spences place and Mike-e's bed.

I got some tickets here $5 each - save $3. Only 2 so be quick .

Looks good man.

Is the safety21 cage just a non motorsport Japanese "street" cage?

I've got friday sat sunday off've work.

Anything to watch on sat Markku?

There should be things to watch on sat, it's all testing for winter series the day after. Free entry etc.

See you cunts there...

All going well money wise I'll be testing at manfeild on Saturday, so pop over for looks / chats if you want.

Pipes look sweet! Vids of the sound?

The 3 wheelers are mint! So don't be hassling them .

I saw mint examples of most of those cars at the Mazda factory in Japan, they are sweet. Roadpacer was cool to see in person .

Yep hardout. Standard 3s and it would be quick as shit.

or a 4k on sidies with cam .