sav man

I've still got the og shell in the shed and the new shell is almost ready to race again. I've got a Motec M150 in the car and just sorting a driveline vibration and putting in 10mm fuel lines then it will be running again.

Brad knows how to build good engines

I've busted one of the alloy block to filter things before, they are very brittle and easy to put a hairline crack in. The old girl has a nice engine note

I didn't try as the car won't be ready. But don't you need a current entrant to invite you to get accepeted?

After the shit show that was Targa I lost all motivation for a while. I'll put the big block in soon and replace the Haltech with a Motec. I don't recon I'll make it to the mainland till next year, but challenge bathurst does look cool.

Could you 3d print a new part for the flap?

I do owe Golly some Bacardy and will have to get round to pulling the engine out soon.

I'm going to try, if enough of us get together we'll have a better chance. I think only 14% of the event was run

No idea at this stage. I would like for them to go back to AASA. The 200k limit is a joke, as all the incidents have been well under 200k. This year was the first time I was checking my speedo on a stage, as I don't fully trust that the rev limiter won't overrun. The problem is more when a car comes off the road that the GPS can't get a signal out cause the car is upsidedown or the antenna has been ripped off. It then relys on car to car comunication, which can also fail depending on distance from the road and antenna damage. I think there needs to be a failsafe that if a unit stops talking back to HQ that a stop and look for car instruction is sent to following cars at the last known location. There is probably better ways, but the discussion needs to be had. When the supplier tell you to put loctight on the bolts that join the box and bellhouse you should listen to them. Bolts came out and jammed the flywheel then went out of th side of the bellhouse, not the box thankfully. We had the stuff to put the std box back in if the event had continued. The furture will be interesting, as lots of people were running this year just cause of the 30th and wern't planning on running next year because of the restrictions. There is also rumbelings going on in the background that there is legal action happening about the tribunal last year

I didn't have the correct config loaded for the gear sensor, I fixed it that night. There isn't a whole lot known about what happened. A lotus came off on Mt Roland and the drivers was killed, looks like rallysafe didn't alert the cars behind of the Lotus being off the road, as 6 cars drove past (7th stopped). Same thing happened last year when the bloke drowned, 50 cars drove past and had no idea a car was off.

Had some issues on day 2 that dropped us out of contention, but after hearing about the fatality in the afternoon we decided not to get the car ready for day 3, as we knew how much Motorsports Aus hates tarmac rally and would cancel it at any opertunity.

Well Targa was started and cancelled. We managed to make the start, I had a shit time tryig to get the engine from the machine shop in time. I did get the engine at the 11th hour and then found there was no compression on cylinder 1 and 6. I'll get round to looking into it properly in a few weeks to find what the issue is. But I was able to borrow a spare standard RB20 to run the event on. in the end it didn't count for much as the event was cancelled. But here is incar from the first time the car was driven at speed.

I just didn't have time to go through to the towers. It woul have taken longer to make the cage and then probably would need setup changes. At least I know i can just put the settings from the old shell in and it will feel the same. With the wheel removed it's not to bad to get in and out of, you work a process out pretty quick. I did the Australian Tarmac Championship in 2017, so am aiming to get back there to do some more evetnts. Espesially since the Targa events are getting restricted.