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  1. No Crust Racing
    The only season I've won at club level was the season I went in with the approach of Win it or bin it, the engine held on but was tired by the end of the season and I broke plenty shit along the way for a small plaque with a photo of my car, my name, and 1st written on it lol
  2. No Crust Racing
    My car trailer hiring experience is not fantastic but it will vary based on your local options. Local hire trailer here that was not stupid expensive was heavy AF, towed like shit, and I had to go get it, worry about getting it back on time or being charged more, take it back etc. I'm not big on putting my car on something that's been abused by heaps of others and hoping it doesn't snap a stub axle while I'm using it (seen that one personally but luckily it happened while moving the trailer over a gutter unloaded). Absolutely cheaper than buying one, but driving to/from the track is still an option for plenty of people.
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    Trailer for sure, but easy to say when you live somewhere that has the space to store trailers, daily and race cars, etc. City life is not as simple with race cars, storing a car/your daily or tow rig AND a trailer safely is just plain harder.
  4. No Crust Racing
    Wrong, he'd be loving the ease of use, daily driving it, refinement. Do you guys even know Johnny?
  5. No Crust Racing
    "I should sell and buy something I can drive there, easier to maintain and better from the start" This. For me it's the ease, because easy = less time and money needed to enjoy. There's a reason I am spending bulk time riding MTB in the last 12mths, cheap, easy, fun, friends, speed/skill needed, adrenalin/risk etc. It's accessible. I should not have bought that XR5 which is taking time away from S13, but I really wanted to try my hand at engine building, so here we are lol Wow, what a random AF thread...
  6. No Crust Racing
    I feel attacked... lol
  7. No Crust Racing
    This is why I struggled so much with continuing with the S13 rather than just dropping the good engine into an 86. Ultimately, I'm only sticking with the S13 because I've had it so long and just don't want to sell it, simple as that.
  8. No Crust Racing
    Better low/mid-range power for a given capacity/engine config vs the 90s and the ability to put it down and carry it through corners from the factory floor is hard to beat.
  9. No Crust Racing
    It's not just safety tech. Modern chassis are superior all round, what you get in a "road" car these days is akin to what was a race car previously in terms of chassis stiffness, anti-squat geo, king pin inclination bump steer correction etc etc Suspension kinematics are vastly improved all round, ignoring specific alignment settings like cabmer/castor. An equally tired 86, even with a bit less power is faster than an S-chassis around a 1min per lap track with both drivers being of roughly equal skill. the 86 chassis is head and shoulders better in every way. It was only when we went to Winton that had a few straights I could use the power of the CA to pick up some cheap lap time. On anything tight/twisty, the 86s kill S-Chassis and MX5. Just one comparison.
  10. No Crust Racing
    Don't agree, I think he will love it when it happens, it'll only be how much $$ he loses on the 33 that he remembers lol
  11. No Crust Racing
    Agreed, it's FUGAnugly
  12. No Crust Racing
    Rav4 is surprisingly big inside, we're looking at one for us, BUT we are well past pram stage. Also eyeing CX8 and equiv Hyundai stuff
  13. No Crust Racing
    Always good and bad examples of every car, I'm fairly biased against Subaru's BUT that is anecdotal from all the stuffed ones you see on market place with blown boxes/diffs/and of course headgakets. Plenty of stuffed euros too and we all know how SR's/RBs love to munch a few bearings or how Nissan CVTs are absolute shite. Was gonna say this is a bit off topic but then I remember what thread we were in
  14. No Crust Racing
    Buy a turbo Subaru to if you wanna support the only manufacturer that keeps short blocks in ready supply because they eat head gaskets and are shitful to work on. Legit, you can call up a dealer and get a new short block for 3-4k within the week because they're a stocked part... 10 thumbs down.
  15. No Crust Racing
    Oh I didn't know more were coming, congrats my dude As for the 33, you might not get 55-60k for it, sure, but would you get 40? Would that allow you to get a nice BMW? Dunno, but prices are moving and I'm seeing track/drift cars with built engines etc for back down around 20k rather than 40.
  16. No Crust Racing
    In addition to the 33 or to replace the 33 or to replace the missus Tiguan?
  17. No Crust Racing
    I've been having a little look online at fun cars, as the main dirt road that leads to my house has just been sealed meaning I only have to make it 500m up my steep dirt driveway into the safety of the shed..... Anyway I am seeing a few prices dropping so if you are gonna sell this thing, make it soon while you cn still command a premium. Even Himmy was selling a modded 08 R35 for 85k or less.
  18. No Crust Racing
    Agree, I have some used Porsche slicks sitting on my new rims for when the Silvia ever runs again. Not sure what R comp I'll try next, maybe Z221s also.
  19. No Crust Racing
    So you were over tyred for the power as I said above. A mate with an R33 and 300+rwkw on Z221s cannot get a full 20mins session from them, but my guess is he would've been doing faster than 1:09 at Wakefield, it's all relative. Nothing wrong with over tyring the car, but the reality is most people are running Z221/equivalent advans, and in my club, used slicks also, and will still cook the tyre in 20mins because the cars are far more powerful and suspension far more capable than it used to be allowing us all to go much faster. Same goes for any "issue". I could go a full 20mins and not see oil temps above 110, but the car had under 200kw, and very decent/ducted oil cooler setup. You can apply the same approach to any aspect of the car and when you do all of them you can go run 20mins flat out. They call those GT3 cars I think Anyway, agree to disagree, but I think Johnny's pattern of hot/cool laps is fun for lots of club level cars.
  20. No Crust Racing
    No stupid questions and yes in my experience at club level lots of people follow this pattern which is why watching your mirrors is very important and considered poor track etiquette if you fail to do so.
  21. No Crust Racing
    I've only had limited experience with budget R comps/good street tyres (NankangAR1/Federal RSR etc) but neither would come close to a full 20min session at the level of push required to get a PB for my car i.e. 100% Maybe bigger dollar tyres will give better consistency, but I can't think of many affordable tyres that are going to give top tier PB level grip for 20mins of 100% push unless your car is heavily over tyred for the power/suspension capability etc. I would go as far as to say if your tyres can last that long you are not driving anywhere near as hard as the car can handle. Time attack is called 1 perfect lap for a reason.
  22. No Crust Racing
    I'm with Johnny and yes I used to do that process often because my tyres could not handle more than 2hot laps to start then 1 ever other lap because I drive like shit and I am brutal on the gear. As I was nearing the end of my last season and worrying about the stock CA surviving so I could win my class I was also dropping max RPM, down to like 6500 and only doing sometimes 2 hot laps in a session as the season old tyres were giving up, and yet I kept going faster every track day so you don't gotta rev/drive/turn in hard to set a good time. Especially when you're as average a driver as all of us will be.
  23. No Crust Racing
    That's fair, lots of work to track prep it, risk of breaking it, all time and money and you're covering both of those so it's easy for us to sit back and say go for it son! If you do go, knowing the engine is older, just be kinder to it I guess. Nice gradual warm up, 1 hot lap maybe 2 max, cool down lap etc. Just give the engine a chance to manage thermal loads and oil return to the sump.
  24. No Crust Racing
    Given you wear a harness, get a HANS.
  25. No Crust Racing
    I follow F1 and watched a few eps of DTS, was not impressed at the manufactured drama/bs. It has brought a lot of new fans in though so that's cool
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