GTRman1992

The loop does not detect your car when it goes past unless you have a transponder in your car. These are used for race events such as the V8 Super Cars and cost about $550 each. What the guy in the timing room is doing is pressing a button to simulate the read of a transponder. When he gives out a timing sheet with several decimal places on it he is decieving you. Let me explain, see 1:03.8 (1/10th sec), 1:03.83 (1/100th sec), 1:03.835 (1/1000th sec). There is no way that someone pressing a button is repeatably accurate to any of these. If he gave a time of 1:03.8 (+/-0.5sec) that would be more like it, but its still generous. What you have to factor in is that he is pressing that button not only for one car over 5 laps, but for a whole grid of cars over several hours. So errors are made and sometimes in the order of seconds. For example, the Porsche club "wash" the data before making it official for their competition by deleting any entries that look suspect. My timing system is based on a hard real time microcontroller that captures a time stamp with an infrared sensor across the track at the start finish line. The internal timer is accurate to 1/1000th sec. This accuracy remains for every time all day. To get your time in the "Time Attack" record you have to come to one of our track days. The next one is August 30 and the one after that is November 30. Currently our days are only during the week, although I may be timing weekend events in the future. I hope that answers your question. If anything is still unclear please post futher questions. Paul

Be a tight schedule, as you will want to make sure it is run in and has a few k's on it as well.

Exotic Exhaust in Sumner Park has done some work for me and its all good.

Oil leak from where ?

Excellent. I'll make sure your on the list. Anyone who is on the mailing list, the best way to reserve a spot is to send me an email. If your not on the mailing list and want to be, PM me your email address and I'll add you and send you the latest Time Attack Track Day email and an invite to Track Day Pizza night. You don't have to have driven to come to pizza night, its open to anyone interested and wants to come along to check it all out. Paul

EVO Cam, Those QR Sprint days are timed by hand. There is a guy in the tower who clicks a button when a car goes past. So if he is a bit slow or quick, presto you have a great lap time. He hands out timing sheets with 3 decimal places but its all smoke and mirrors. Thats why the records above are only from my electronic timing system. It is internally accurate to 1/1000th of a second for each and every lap. Paul

Hi Peter, You have been added to the list already from your post in the other thread. I will be sending out the formal email on this track day tonight and also pizza night. You can pay either Tim or myself as we are working together on these days now. I already have 28 reserved spots for this day, so get in quick to reserve a spot. If you want to be added to the track day mailing list, PM me your email address. Paul

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I'll get the updated Time Attack times up shortly. Next one is August 30 for anyone who wants to book in. Paul

Hi Peter, We have GTR's some R33 GTS, Silvia's, 300ZX, Supras (600hp variety), Commodores, EVO, WRX, Sprinters and two groups of motorbikes to make things interesting. Paul

When you say track do you mean the big truck skid pan ? Or the other tracks they have there as well ?

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My kids loved the last cruise I came on. My boy (4) played cruise day with his match box cars for months.

You only have to go as hard as you want. Great to see so many new people siging up for this day !!! I will be put some new Time Attack results up soon by the looks of it. Don't forget to fix Tim or myself up for the day ASAP as we are getting very close now !!!

Yea I'll be in that

Hey Peter, you can drop it in my Track Day account if you like. Tim and I are working together on this track day. Anyone who is coming please make your payments ASAP, so Tim can finalise the booking at the 2 week point. Thanks.

I thought those plates were on a cop car used to bait people into street racing ?

Love it. Good Choice.

Yea come on guys, get behind this day. The timing results will go towards the Time Attack challenge as well.

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Import wreckers ?

It is now being mandated in racing to put kevlar over the top of composite parts to stop them shattering as well. And on the weight issue, most fabricators don't really know what they are doing when it comes to carbon and treat it like fibreglass so you end up with a product heavier than the aluminium parts anyway. Given the recent threads it would seem the legality of the carbon bonnet seems to remain in a grey area, or at least whether or not you will be booked for it.

It could also be related to the year of the car it is on ??? As older cars have less stringent crash laws to adhere to ??

Hey Maccattack, I should be there doing timing and hopefully driving if all goes to plan.

I have one installed in tank on my R32 GTR. Got some fittings from Pirtek and did some machining to make the filter fit nicely. Used a BIG cable tie to secure the pump in the factory cradle and also got another fitting to attach the pump to the fuel hose. Disposed of the check valve that comes with the 044. To be sure we ran heavier cables as the 044 draws more current than the standard pump, and put in a new relay that is switched by the factory relay. It works fine. Only took a few hours.

That looks like it has taken a pretty decent hit as that plastic is pretty hard. And the bare wires are definately a worry, only takes one strand to go across to another terminal to cause a problem.