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UV wasn't the issue, if you've got any sliding they scratch from vibration contact with one another, inevitable fingernails, the good intentioned helper who wipes the morning dew off with a paper towel or rag, before you can yell at them! Seems a bit steep that Pommy price anyhow (2k landed?), although the tint and edging inevitably push the price. Been a couple of years now last hatch in 4mm was around 400 locally (uncoated), some 3mm for a lathe last year and cut to size - enough to do 2 typical windows was well under 100 as well.

Old sport sedan regs at least, 3mm side windows, 6mm windscreen - not entirely sane the last bit either, if you ever have plans to do a wet race! General requirement of 6mm transparent to separate the driver from the fuel cell or whatnot if it's a single volume car. I think some of you blokes need your head read spending that amount of dough on that UK stuff knowing how often you need to change it, even the hard coat isn't a guarantee of long life.

Thickness for thickness, about half the weight. If you can somehow use flat panels of it which allows the one with the protective coat - name escapes me - it mightn't look like crazed scratched crap after a little while too.

^^^ Without being PC, old age and guile overcoming youth and naïveté, hope for us fossils yet, bravo! Day 5 audio suggesting not entirely plain sailing despite the time sheets.

Ah, the rosy glow!

Was referring to the proposed 8 wheel/tyre rule, used legitimately. I do know of one instance of suspension collapse leading to the destruction of the tyre carcasses. A helpful local gravel crew then proceeded getting creative with white markers on the sidewalls of non-marked tyres, back in the day - inspection at the overnight at Burnie never picked them up, parc ferme might have be a different matter if the time loss didn't happen in stage and preclude that possibility.....maybe!

Can't remember seeing it, must have been the year AWDs were outlawed.....except toyota ones obviously. Should have been packing a radiator rather than what I guess were film crew first time! Anyhoo, old course might have presented the possibility of re-positioning wheels and tyres on a few stages, closures, traffic and the potential of crew getting pinged for warp 9, makes it unlikely at best, imho.

Unless there's a helicopter - rotor turning, highly unlikely situation imho. Said before, if whingers need the extras on the grounds of safety, carry them as targa of old......East Africa style if necessary!

Won't argue about the space aspect. I imagine if you pull more than a G or two in a crash, the hardness won't be an issue - check formula car cockpit surround. Physiotherapy foam used for retiree muscle rebuilding after bone fracture, yeah well you may need to use some in the hydro-pool after a biggie too. Don't know about Tassie, not sure what that has to do with the price of bread either , but as far back as 2002 it was phased in for the particular CAMS class up here.

Are people actually installing padding on padding, the mind boggles? I think ARC have had a requirement for the FIA stuff for 5 or 6 years, pretty sure they do transports too....some circuit categories nearer 10. Could be old age and a multitude of rule changes since and T-01 can no doubt correct, last time targa ran CAMS, I thought it was in place then too. Last lots I bought were in the $US20s a length out of a speedway/nastycar mob in the US.

The two types of FIA padding are made in the States, so it carries SFI certs. Unless you don't compete in circuit events where it is coming or mandated, what are you going to do, pull it in and out each time? And as for the thought that a head knock on a transport against the cage is going to be better with a bit of sponge or bare steel, long bow I think, unless it's parking speeds., chamfering the edge might go a little way to helping those of us with long foreheads too!

Could have gone quicker himself, but because of the disparity in speeds, he'd be coming up on people in 3 laps. They'd generally move a few feet sideways with the air the thing was pushing, so simply from a preservation of life and limb perspective, there was only a couple of laps to do the deed, just when carrying the heaviest water and fuel load. Another small problem, the front lower wishbones were bending, not something experienced elsewhere.

Pretty much carte blanche from my reading of the rules, pedals free, with modifications permitted to be made for installation of same....limits of that work aren't defined....so go crazy with the angle grinder! Believe bogan v8s are well entrenched in the version of IP in the west, but you'd be well advised to check out an Rx7 in that category if there's any around, it's nothing new there and might save a few pennies. The needle roller masters in some of the newer pedal boxes make the eyes water, price wise.

70s Porsches have to run magnesium blocks, RB20s can't run 25s, early Mazdas can apparently run improved motors with different plates and rotor housings with altered ignition timing, where's me protest money?

Someone else did have ABS failure, resulting in something more than locking brakes - still in hospital. Probably impolite to ask just now, but I'm assuming no HNR being worn....going by the fracture. Oh and the 8 tyre rule seems a sop to the morbidly obese GTR, etc, in late and will entrench evos in EM. Make them carry em I say if they can't make the distance!

Depending on what compound you're running, actually found them pretty good for rotor wear - old 80 series and the last few years stuff, might be a different story perhaps. Ebay bookmark on PFC can come in handy too for excess stock, picked up V8SC 01s that normally go for 1k per axle set here for only a few hundred for 2 sets.

Seems a good opportunity to pee-off(!) those seats and get something a little better.....if somewhat inconvenient on transports. Teensie-tiny in-car suggests no HNR, going by the head movements....been there, done that, have the impressive array of X-rays!!!!

It's a bit half-arsed, but with the use of a hand held hacksaw blade and the wonders of adhesive backed velcro, something approximating a cover has been slid into place between the cage and the battery posts and reassembled in situ. Might make something better when the irritation level of squeezing behind the seat and monkey bars a few times pushes me over the edge.

Original battery real estate is now on-sold....and there's the small matter of the re-wire. If you'll take the loose gold coins in my pocket for one of those Li batteries though, might convince on the merits of the swap. Wording is from Cams, typically group 2 and 3 regs, can't remember when a battery box requirement was last specified there, must have been a few years at least. Everything electrical is still covered and if it came to the case being ruptured, acid burns would only be a worry for the coroner. Just my general rant, as it appears a box will have to be fabricated as no amount of putting the battery right side up, upside down or sideways will get it to co-operate with the pos plastic cover and available clearance.....seemed a good idea at the time!!

Any particular reason tarmac regs still ask for a battery box over "adequately covered to prevent short circuit and leakage, in any position." as seems universal in the racing classes? Gel cell, check - metal case, check - bolted down, check - terminals concealed with mounting bracket, check - inserting smallest commercial plastic box that does sweet FA for these types of batteries.........even inordinate amounts of hacking away and it still won't fit around rops....f #$#%^ker T01!

Believe it's only S3 that had the 13b option. Drama with the 12a, turbo or not, the housings are unavailable and the 10% rule won't get you over the line to 1308cc, the cut-downs would give the parc ferme ghouls a little shock though! Everyone has their own personal wank, wank apex seal horror story, as long as you keep em cool and avoid the hairdryer, they'll be the most reliable thing out there, plenty of endurance races attest to that.

Modern dunlops are radial construction , they tend to like a lot of camber.....possibly not available on a standard car, MX5 is it? Whole host of other unknowns from the description. One mate bought several new sets for his historic sedan after he reacquired it - after a long absence - from a certain Melbourne outlet (well known), only to find it drove like it was on a skidpan, turns out, stock was from the same era he last drove too, lol.

4 (?) years too late ^^^^^ and they were Clayton tarmac rallies. Local plod at the final event even suggesting (seriously!) route should be lined with barriers. NSW, probably less suitable for these events, unless you like corpses littering high speed sections, although WA seems to get away with their series of drag straights somehow....what I've seen on the box anyway.

With the wheels relying on the studs for location, you could have a bit of radial run-out. The speed you mention when the resonance starts is typical for a street car spring being excited. You might find above this speed, it'll smooth out again. Both front and rear wheels should spigot off the hub, if you want to avoid the harmonics.

If it is anything like the box guard, slide throttle jobbie that ran, a Kugelf*kker injection specialist on the team might be a plus. Catching another 2002 that eventually put the driver in hospital later in the event, rear ends appear to need a lot of taming....life threatening springs to mind with more killer wasps. edit: beaten to the punch!