Martin Donnon

Its a signed off CAMS cage, has the correct documentation and meets the requirements of 2011 when it was carried out. Speedah can make the decision how much he wants to chop the car up/what kind of events he wants to enter. There is some tricky work in pulling the interiors in and out (dash etc.) of these things, but its all good fun!

I do believe you could probably have it engineered....but dont quote me but for Tarmac reg this type of cage is fine

Speedah We designed a template for a nice, tight fitting structural GTR cage, thats full CAMS compliant, non intrusive from a driving viewpoint (VERY important in a GTR with regards to headroom, A pillar inclusion etc.) and then went and tested it in a 180km/h high speed rollover (unintentional!) Structurally the car remained perfect (drivers door still opens shuts which allowed the driver to live in this case). PM LSX-438 he has seen the installation in person. This is the guy that made the cage - http://www.alexbennett.com.au/index.html We can get Alex to carry out the fitment of the cage while we are fitting your larger WR35TTR turbos, upgrading your trans etc. Edit: Found some pics!

My old 4 door was stock looking, came with Regency approval, and a time-card......3 things that one wouldnt have

Its fairly obvious when it happens as the traction light on the dash will blink wildly at you.....

Domino....I reckon we have one Call me next week!

Its a shame to see what becomes of some of these cars......

We are more than likely going to cut the rear section off the car and integrate a bbq hotplate into it....make a seriously good talking piece that

Ours are always road cars not race cars No point IMO in dropping $180K on a car and not being able to drive it on the road. I have never got that part..... Each to their own.

We were planning a new car for mid year....this just brang it on sooner It will be better in every way than the last car

The unfortunate part is constantly having to answer questions about it. The facts are - When you race cars sometimes they crash, and if they are going hard its a big crash. Then sometimes they catch fire and burn well if there are no marshalls around. This car did both of the above........so......... we bought a new one. While its a fairly major kind of incident it has definitely upset those that have never sat in/never driven/may never own an R35 on the Internet much more than it has upset us. Strange world we live in, but thats the facebook generation living their lives 10 keystrokes at a time all looking for their free moment of glory on the web. BTW - Martin Likes This!

43.01 I believe (Bloody Fast) God only knows how fast he was through the top, but my Vbox at 46.0 showed 186km/h (7000rpm in 4th or nearabouts) at the line. Spooky stuff indeed.

Star of the show really was Blue32 Bartlett though....and he just may be the unofficial 1st place AWD winner overall... He was on a different level to most all weekend

Lets hope it doesnt have wings. GTRs arent meant to fly. I can tell you that from Sundays aftermath!

The next one will be better

Its actually a normal part of racing. You want to go fast, its going to happen at some point. The skill is in minimising how much damage - YOU - get. Like all forms of motorsport, if you arent prepared to put the car on the line, then take a second thought before proceeding to the line. Seriously, think hard about it. The damage would have been far less if there was a fire station near the incident.

Its a car lads. A pain in the butt to sort it all out, but a new opportunity to do something really special with a 35 as well You go motor racing - expect this can happen - and factor it in. It does to everyone eventually. Remember - no matter how fast or slow you are, safety gear can make all the difference. Personally I wont be doing that hill again without a full cage, suit, and full face helmet. Thankfully all of the safety gear in the R35 worked perfectly during the accident and allowed the driver to get out of the car before it went up. If the same had happened to my uncaged Subaru (we both cross the line at about the same speed), I wouldnt be here to write this to you. Keep it in mind, and take it seriously. Thanks for the kind words regardless

While that is true there are plenty of folks out there in GTR land that have lashed out over $50K on transmission 'upgrades' Search around in the USA, it seems to be a fairly common practice

I followed this up today with the workshop Gavin Wood. Apparently the car was picked up from the dealer and driven to the said workshop with all gears 1-6 selecting perfectly and no transmission errors. Strange one indeed!, however electricaly glitches can and well happen to any TCM based transmission and GTR is no exception to this. A reset every now and then along with a Gear Learn isnt a bad thing. There may however be more to this, Gavin will work that out Its very easy to tip > $20K into strengthening a GTR transmission. Its cheaper, and every bit as good to do some very basic upgrades and replace anything else that breaks (which is unlikely) along the way. Look at what the top/winning Tarmac Rally GTRs do to their transmissions to get an idea (ie. not a great deal - the basics)

A day of track testing today...all went according to plan It has very good power this thing.

The UGR TT Gallardo has a lot of benefits over a GTR at that kind of power level. For a start its a much smaller and lighter car The transmission/engine is inherently stronger You can use big turbochargers on the engines as they arent limited by engine bay room. If driven to use the 1500+whp properly, I dont think anything is going to last overly long at that power level. Its just physics

Who knows? In the case of the Omega chart the last 50/100hp of that dyno sheet is the dyno control system getting into trouble and spiking/oscillating, so imagine that the real number might be closer to 1550whp on a Mustang. From the testing we have done you need to multiply most Mustang outputs around 0.75 to get close to what we seen on a Mainline (remember we exported many turbo systems to the US over the years and collected a lot of back to back data). Now convert that back to awkw and you are looking at close to something like 850awkw - which is more than enough for the street one might think! You have to give it to the Americans, their obsession in turning anything with wheels into a drag Supra is paying some big dividends if that happens to be your bag. How long before there is a Turbo 400 retrofit into the GTR? Dont laugh...yet

Sorry Domino....cant hear you.... We have something to fix that (hint: WR35BTDF) - some of the smart ones run it, and it shuts the gear noise up maybe 50%, but still cant totally overcome the fact that the gear isnt finished in a manner as to provide silent operation, hence it makes that sound Very similar to this -

I hear you loud and clear on that one Mark.... Straight answers are sometimes hard to get in this game, particularly from the other side of the ditch. Less lag than stock with turbos three times the size? I've seen plenty of stuff in my time, but never that...or perpetual motion has indeed been discovered!

Building the rest of the cars support systems around the engine at the moment Mark - god only knows you must know the feeling! Carrying out centre exit exhaust system, twin mount rear vent coolers (trans/rear diff), secondary front mount oil cooler Triple pump fuel system, all new lines, transmission bracing, front differential bracing, the list goes on. Turning the key on it and tuning it should be the simplest part of the equation.