Mt Cotton Hillclimb

[hrd-hr30]

From MG's Website:

COME & TRY MORNING

No more entries are being taken for the Come and Try day on May 21st. It is

fully subscribed therefore no entries for Come and Try will be accepted on

the day.

Next Come and Try is 15th October; get in with your expression of interest early. However, entries for Test and Tune afternoon on the afternoon of May 21st will be accepted on the day.

get in early if you want to do this, as the spots go very quick apparently! Download the

Entry Form and contact Gary Goulding (Event Co-ordinator) ASAP!

Sunday's Hillclimb went pretty well. A few guys from the forums turned up - John (lunatikk), Dan (9krpm), and Brad (brad_gtr). Nice to meet a couple more Skyline enthusiasts - it would be great to have a group of skylines at these events. I got a new PB of 46.24 after turning the boost up to 0.9bar for the last couple of runs (I'm on the standard ceramic turbos). Before that I ran 46.78 on standard boost, which was about the same as what I managed at the first hillclimb earlier in the year - 46.80. I was 2nd in class behind the record holder, but I'm leading the series pointscore for the class. My plans now are for a bit of suspension tweaking before the next round - sorting out the camber mainly. It's got no camber on the front and too much on the rear, so there should be some big improvements once that's done. And I noticed when I got home that one of the rear subframe bushes has started to leak, so that's something else on the "to do list"...

links to some pics taken by osella photgraphy:

my GTR:

http://www.osella.com.au/wayne/2006-Hillcl...es/ASE_4418.htm

http://www.osella.com.au/wayne/2006-Hillcl...es/Ase_4809.htm

mate's very tidy and fast 240Z. he runs 49.6 so far and still improving each time he goes there

http://www.osella.com.au/wayne/2006-Hillcl...es/Ase_4787.htm

index of all cars

http://www.osella.com.au/wayne/hillclimb-round-2.htm

Edited May 9, 2006 by hrd-hr30

[RYN26]

Congratulations!! I know you are gonna break the record pretty soon:)

Got some problem with my car, didn't make it there to watch your performance. Will try to go on the 21st. hoping to be a passagner of a mad 32GTR, Cheers.

[hrd-hr30]

cheers mate. the record is still a fair way off, but that's what I'm aiming towards - hopefully by the end of the year. Suspension work and softer compound tyres are the main things I want at this stage. I don't want to do any turbo upgrades or engine work if I don't have to.

The record holding WRX has a close ratio PPG dog box, 2200cc motor with Motec, big turbo and far more power than me, the super-soft 'WT' compound Bridgestones, and years of development just for Mt Cotton - he set the record in 2004. So it won't be easy to get there in a mildly modified GTR, but it will be fun trying. All I've got on the GTR is a Mines ECU, 3.75" HKS exhaust, 0.9 bar on standard ceramic turbos, heavy clutch, and buddy club coilovers. And 'RS' compound Bridgestones which are more suited to circuit racing, on the standard GTR wheels. I think I'll bite the bullet and go to 17*9 or 9.5s with 255 super soft compound rubber. That will hurt the credit card!

I'll be out there on the 21st, but only watching.

[jmac]

harry! well done mate, that's a great time. nice to see you in there giving those WRX boys a shake. it'd be great to see a few more GT-Rs in that AWD-turbo class.

at this stage i'm coming to the afternoon session of that come and try day (test and tune) - i'm not sure if first time runners could enter it without having been to a come and try day though. got some fairly fresh RE55s now too, just trying to get my eye in a bit more and maybe get into the 50s.

[brad_gtr]

Always a great day at the Hill, been running there since 1985 in a Cooper S , last year my 14 year record was broken 49.32 .

It gets very addictive Harry . Some pics from me .

[hrd-hr30]

Thanks for the pics Brad!

[ellie]

Hey harry, congrats on the results! You replied to my thread in the motorsport section and I was hoping to come out and check out the action on the 21st to sus it out. If your going to be there, I wouldn't mind having a chat about getting involved myself? No pressure, just easier to talk to some one involved than feel my way in the dark!

[hrd-hr30]

Hey harry, congrats on the results! You replied to my thread in the motorsport section and I was hoping to come out and check out the action on the 21st to sus it out. If your going to be there, I wouldn't mind having a chat about getting involved myself? No pressure, just easier to talk to some one involved than feel my way in the dark!

yeah, no worries matt. I'll be there but the skyline won't. Look for the yellow/orange/blue '76 Civic rally car. I should be somewhere nearby.

Harry

[trust_33]

i got just new coilovers and clutch in my 33 and im keen to have a go, what do i have to do to join in?

[jmac]

i got just new coilovers and clutch in my 33 and im keen to have a go, what do i have to do to join in?

www.mgccq.org.au

Entry forms etc can be downloaded from here under the hillclimb section. Probably best to give the club a ring too, they're friendly and will explain the necessary forms / payments etc.

(or just show up to the next event and see things in action!)

[jmac]

Hey guys, it was great to see a couple of Skylines there last Sunday for the Come and Try/Test and Tune afternoon....

I got my time down to a 49.44... so getting there despite a not-very-limited-slip diff and a fair bit of understeer. Some more camber and experimenting with tyre pressures should be interesting next time!

[hrd-hr30]

Well done on breaking the 50 second barrier John! I only saw one run before I had to leave, but it looked very quick!

[jmac]

Thanks Harry, it felt a lot better on the fresher rubber and the right pressures. It's weird how things seem to be happening slower and slower the more times you go around that place - the first time I had a serious go at it I was just too busy being sh*tscared.

It was a shame to see that dude put his little turbo Starlet into the armco too... he so very nearly caught it!

[Thunderbolt]

Any ideas when the next come and try will be? Still keen to come out, but a lack of funds and some car work needed prevented me from attending this one.

[ellie]

Cries for starlet!

I had a good chat with him and it was a wicked little ride which was pulling some quick times for the lack of mods.

Did he loose the rear end?

Because I mentioned to him about the perils of running semi-slicks on the front and road tyres on the rear!

P.S. It was good to meet you guys!

[jmac]

He did indeed lose the rear end - a big tank-slapper coming off the second loop, he just caught it on the first wiggle but then dropped his passenger-side rear onto the grass which flicked him into the armco. He did a bloody good job washing off as much speed as he could though.

That looked like a pretty quick car too... there's not much to em when you see virtually all the interior trim stripped out of them except for the dash and the driver's seat! Pretty good power to weight...

[hrd-hr30]

yep. I'm starting to think about going back to a lighter RWD car for this sort of thing. GTR is fast, but its fairly heavy and you can really feel the weight of the car through the loops and over lover's leap at MtCotton.

Seems no-one is interested in my old HR30 coupe for sale, and I've spotted an RB25 halfcut with HKS 25-30 turbo and some other goodies for a very reasonable price, so... I can't believe I'm saying this... I'm thnking about selling the GTR and building the HR30 into a track car. Should be fairly easy to get the same kind of power out of the RB25 as my near stock GTR has, in a ~300kg lighter RWD Should be fun!

[ellie]

300kg + If you start stripping it!

Power to weight is where its at! Oh yeah!