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Looks boss Sam! Very inspirational

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Some NHRA tracks have advantages over WSID, Willowbank, Kwinana, et al. Soem of our Big Dogs would run PBs at Atco or E-town fer sure.

Shit yeah! Big achievement

Looks boss Leng!

Roll cage for what type of racing? The regulations and rules are different depending on which sanctioning body.

Totes, chin up and look forward to the bigger and better V2.0

Slick racecar and tow rig setup!

But not by any street legal cars with 18" wheels and street tyres.

I disagree, drag racing a late model sports car sounds perfectly fine to me. And the R35 is the prefect weapon to attack a drag strip. The USA is the home of drag racing, so naturally they are leading the charge.

I wonder what those 2000hp cars would make on a Mainline dyno.

Spotted a metallic blue R35 corner Lavender Road and Alfred Street turning down towards North Sydney Olympic Pool while out for a run on Monday.

Promax clutches sound good.

They are only worth what someone will pay no matter how much you still owe them. As Benny says the swap price and the advertised price are never the equal. There will always be people who bought one new and are not prepared to take a bath so hang on (and can afford to hang on). And there will be people who, for one reason or another, will take a haircut because they want out. The market never lies!

Sam, agreed. From what I've seen on YouTube and US boards the Lambos are geared for 100-200 MPH runs etc whereas R3s are pretty much good at everything you could conceivably want from a street car: drag, circuit, street. Personally I am not interested in the flying mile type of events. What intrigues me is the G6 tranny. I've never had a car with two pedals ...

The twin turbo conversion Lamborghinis can match or overmatch a hot rodded GTR .. but the price differential is on our side.

Sounds like a plan Sam!

While they still sell in US and worldwide they will still make them, providing they are profitable.

Sorry to see the damage, chin up!

Gotta love another 1200 cc

Aaron, thanks for posting here to help everyone who is interested in drag racing their R35 at an ANDRA track understand things from the other side. Obviously not all ANDRA officials or local track officials are knuckle draggers or hostile to newcomers with R35s. Just the same as not all R35 newbies have their chest pumped out. You raise an important point about doing something about rules that are frustrating by working the ANDRA system. I agree with that wholeheartedly. So why don't we see much of that happening? Perhaps the reason is the systemic failure of ANDRA to engage at grassroots level with contemporary high performance vehicle owners? In previous decades your performance street car would be capable of running a 15 second pass .. or a 14 second pass .. or maybe a real monster would run a 13 second pass. That meant you could take your street car to your local ANDRA track and give the sport a go. You could make dozens or even hundreds of passes, have a great time and all the while learning about how the track and how ANDRA works. You become familiar with the scrutineering, the various rules and the track officials who work at your local track. In short, while you are having a good time, you learn all about drag racing and how it works. Now some people will be content with that, while some will want to modify or improve their street vehicle in order to go quicker and faster. And over time their ET and trap speed will improve bit by bit. When the time comes that they must log book their street car, they've been "in the game" for some time and they know how it all works. They've had time to think about what they might want to do with their street car. They've seen their mates take that next step and they know people who have done it that they can go to in order to ask questions. They've had the breathing space and time to consider things. Now skip forward to 2012 and Joe Blow in his R35 is just like that first timer back in 1984. He doesn't know much about drag racing, ANDRA or his local track. He's prepared to give it a go and he thinks he might like it all. He's a potential ANDRA drag racer and valuable member of the drag racing family. He's got some money and he likes fast cars. All good. So he rocks up to his local track and fumbles his way through scrutineering. He gets out on the track and has a first go. If his R35 is a 2012 model or if it's an earlier model with a simple tune, he's going to run a 10 second pass. Probbaly on his first or second pass EVER IN HIS LIFE. He is then told by an official he cannot do any more passes that night, and he's not welcome back until he cuts up his $180K car to install a rollcage (etc), severely compromising the vehicle as a road car. On his first trip to a drag strip. And there's the problem. Instead of a gradual progression over time where you become exposed to other people a bit further ahead of you, where you can see for yourself why going quicker and faster is more fun, where you know a few people who have done it, where you can get used to the idea and make up your own mind, instead of all that you're booted right then and there. There is no mystery why very few people ever come back. In order for people to pay to become an ANDRA member, get a race licence and become politically active in their division, they need to have motivation to do so. And again, if you've worked your way up piece by piece and become more and more involved in the sport, it's a reasonable path to take. But if your first trip out sees you leave the sport forever, then how would you ever become interested enough to take on the daunting task of trying to lobby ANDRA for rule changes? I'm not proposing a solution here, I am trying to shed some light on what I think is the key issue starving the sport of fresh meat. I'm very pleased that Aaron has put forward an different point of view so more of the full picture is painted.

It's like watching a car go from unibody to tube frame chassis piece by piece! Fabulous thread.

That's it exactly. The knuckle draggers just HATE it when a high tech 6 cylinder turbo is quicker than their V8 pushrod cars. They flat out hate it.

Munro I couldn't say it any better than you just did. ANDRA needs changes in the rules that reflect the changes that have occurred in high performance street cars since the 1960s. The rules about requiring a chute at 140 MPH should change. The cutoff for a roll cage should change (and with that comes arm restraints, padding, headrest, etc, etc). What kills the growth of ANDRA drag racing is poisoning the well of grass roots participation. What happened in the 60s, 70s and 80s was that you took your V8 Ford or Holden to the street meet, had a great time and maybe got more interested. By the time you'd gutted it and worked the smallblock to within an inch of it's life you eventually got it to run 12.999 or quicker. A REAL tough street car. Because your car had drum brakes all around you required a chute if you cracked 140 MPH at the stripe (there was no way your drums would stop you safely). Because there's no way you could run 10.99 or quicker without slicks, you had to make rules about not running radials at the front, etc. Basically Munro hit the nail on the head: ANDRA needs to wake up to 2012 and realise it's a beautiful new day! It needs changes to the rules to ensure the growth of the sport at the grassroots level is assured, not discouraged. Who wants to cut up a $180K car by putting a six point welded rollcage with side intrusion bars into it? Or wheel studs? Or an external kill switch on the boot? Or a parachute? And how can you legally run a street car on the STREET once it's caged? In 1976 that was not a problem because street cars could not do low nine second passes on street radials. Guess what!? They can now.

Hey Duncan! I was wondering if you were THAT Duncan! I unloaded the Beetle a few years ago and now Benny the Kid has clued me up on thse R35s ... it took me a while to digest just how amazing they are. Revolutionary I think whether you love street, circuit or drag racing. They do it all.