Targa Tas 07

[GoldZilla]

Anyway, we got back on the road- after learning there's no need for a jack when you have 6 builders to lift the car up, not to mention what they can do to reattach guards with a drill and self tapping screws

Things seemed to be in order but we had obviously sustained some more serious damage to the suspension, which made itself known as we were travelling at about 130kays on the 4th stage in.

Manual labour being put to work in its most important role, ever!

It was interesting coming off the road at 130, we were flat out in a right 5 when it happened.

And it was a damn shame, we finally found the source of the mis last night (ignitor box) and the car was running sweet

Duncan

Good work to keep it all together under such a high-intensity moment, Duncan!

Mark and Scott are in 21th which is great, they are running good and hoping to get home as the first skyline :fingers-crossed:

21th, Duncan? Re-interpreting the English language FTW!!!

oh turns out we've had no fwd either so we've been running the world's fastest gtst for the last 3 days....I thought maybe it was just the tighter corners making it act differently to on the track - hopefully we can get that sorted tonight too

Hahah, that's tops! Unintentional drift at the most inappropriate times, hey? What about the ATTESA controllers?

Anyway, good to see you're all safe after your suspension and wheel woes, and especially after Mark and Scott's major stack!

[PHaT MR30]

i think the source of their lack of fwd was due to joins in the attessa controller requiring being soldered (correct me if im wrong duncan). I just recall the Just Jap guys mentioning something about it and their very clever guy from Japan picked up on it.

[WogsRus]

NOW this is a classic pic, never realised who was on the front. LOL.

GTR = smash

Hillman = smash.

LOL.

Edited April 23, 2007 by WogsRus

[WogsRus]

So here are the pics of the end of our targa.

BUGGGAAA< car at body works as we speak, will see what they say.

[PHaT MR30]

So here are the pics of the end of our targa.

BUGGGAAA< car at body works as we speak, will see what they say.

I remember coming through there (about 2/3 way through Weldborough Pass?) And seeing that and thinking ouch!

[WogsRus]

Yeah car not reallly worth fixing according to body works, too much work for crap results, so it looks like whole new car for this years events. We have another shell, so looks like a new cage, SEAM WEALDING all the pannels together, and start from scratch.

Oh well, on the upside, we got a new motor almost working, most of the new electronics will be soughted out within the next few months. The new car will be about 100kg lighter thanks to aluminium pannels, working electrics, IE: HEATER and demist, and hopefully stiffer. The new motor should be good for 300+Hp and 10000rpm readline.

Just puts a damper on this years local scene.

How did you place PHaT MR30?

[PHaT MR30]

Yeah car not reallly worth fixing according to body works, too much work for crap results, so it looks like whole new car for this years events. We have another shell, so looks like a new cage, SEAM WEALDING all the pannels together, and start from scratch.

Oh well, on the upside, we got a new motor almost working, most of the new electronics will be soughted out within the next few months. The new car will be about 100kg lighter thanks to aluminium pannels, working electrics, IE: HEATER and demist, and hopefully stiffer. The new motor should be good for 300+Hp and 10000rpm readline.

Just puts a damper on this years local scene.

How did you place PHaT MR30?

Due to our broken rocker and cam we were 6 hours behind the field.

[sav man]

Well we finished, and got our Targa trophys . We got a dirived time of +4:31 on arrowsmith after we stopped where the big crash was, we're pretty pissed off. We were in amongst all the classics after the downgrasion of straughn (we didn't get fuel, so we ended up with the slower cars), so our dirrived time was taken from the cars around us , and we didn't know that the dirived time complaints finished last night. The Just Jap GT-R was setting about the same pace as us all rally and he was +1:39, if we were given a time like that we would have ended up in the mid to low 30's instead of 41st, but now we know that all winging has to be done that night.

I drove Day 1 untill lunch. was all good untill paradice, where were waiting at the start for 40 mins, then we appeared at the start, dad didn't plug his head set in properly so it just screamed at me (had to turn it off), I was finishing tightening my helmate when the 10 sec light came on, didn't have time to put my gloves on. And when i hit the breaks for the first corner, i found out i hadn't tightened my belts, so I had to tighten them as we went round teh next few corners. We made sure we didn't get cought short like that again.

Day 2 I was sick as (even had a spew after Welbra Pass), so Dad drove most of that day without notes.

On day 4 I got to drove Longford, Mole Creek, Cethana, and Gunns Plains. On Cethana I cought a Porsche GT2 (didn't pass, but was getting a slip stream across the finish line) and was 26th fastet accross the stage +1:39. I didn't like gunns plains, i didn't trust the notes, and I got passed by o'keefe.

But i'm sure we'll be back next year/

Edited April 23, 2007 by sav man

[PHaT MR30]

Well we finished, and got our Targa trophys . We got a dirived time of +4:31 on arrowsmith after we stopped where the big crash was, we're pretty pissed off. We were in amongst all the classics after the downgrasion of straughn (we didn't get fuel, so we ended up with the slower cars), so our dirrived time was taken from the cars around us , and we didn't know that the dirived time complaints finished last night. The Just Jap GT-R was setting about the same pace as us all rally and he was +1:39, if we were given a time like that we would have ended up in the mid to low 30's instead of 41st, but now we know that all winging has to be done that night.

I drove Day 1 untill lunch. was all good untill paradice, where were waiting at the start for 40 mins, then we appeared at the start, dad didn't plug his head set in properly so it just screamed at me (had to turn it off), I was finishing tightening my helmate when the 10 sec light came on, didn't have time to put my gloves on. And when i hit the breaks for the first corner, i found out i hadn't tightened my belts, so I had to tighten them as we went round teh next few corners. We made sure we didn't get cought short like that again.

Day 2 I was sick as (even had a spew after Welbra Pass), so Dad drove most of that day without notes.

On day 4 I got to drove Longford, Mole Creek, Cethana, and Gunns Plains. On Cethana I cought a Porsche GT2 (didn't pass, but was getting a slip stream across the finish line) and was 26th fastet accross the stage +1:22. I didn't like gunns plains, i didn't trust the notes, and I got passed by o'keefe.

But i'm sure we'll be back next year/

Geeze if only we had known there was that delay at Paradise, we broke down in deloraine b4 there with an electrical fault (1 wire!) and thought we had missed it. I checked the results every night and you guys did really well! Your dad must have done a great job without the notes!

So you guys going to do anymore rallies this year? IE Rally Burnie or anything?

PS car looked really good, i liked the suttle skyline watermark in the blue who did your signwriting?

Edited April 23, 2007 by PHaT MR30

[sav man]

Dad knows the east coast pretty well, so that's always a help.

I'd like to do some other rally's this year, just depends on time.

Freestyle FX did the printing and wraping, and Taz (Donati's Pizza, Yellow R33) did the design.

Also I recon we'll buy notes from now on, most of ours were pretty average.

Edited April 23, 2007 by sav man

[stricko]

Hey ppls, I was on the South Riana stage and took about 650 photos so if any one is after any hook me up with a PM.

Here's just a few I took.

Cheers

stricko

[sav man]

Any of us?

[WogsRus]

If you have any of car 108 please email to [email protected]

If need be please give price

[Bass Junky]

If you have anything of a Red EVO 9, number 942 that would be tops.

E-mail to [email protected]

Higest res you've got!!!!

Cheers

[PHaT MR30]

Heres one of car #811 when its was new

[Targa Tom]

What happened to Greg (Targa Tom)?

And yes looks like Sullens still holds a 54 sec gap to Richards, how is it possible that car can be so good?

Day 1, broke front end in Nookville while sixth outright... Day 2/3 STD susp = slow, Day 4 Borrowed Vandenbergs Suspension = 8th for the day

Sunday am, ready to join que at Parc Fermet (sic) and the gerbox selected two gears (internal broken) faaaaaaark = drink 20 bourbons!

Good to see you all, and sorry about the GT-R carnage... the cars looked trick and we all understand the commitment it takes to do the event from Sydney.

Hope to see you back in 08

We continue to learn and with the car we started the event with, could probabley hang in the top 20... just gotta build in some reliability.

TT 984

[88silhouette]

far out fellas

tough break for the lot of you

bloody solid effort to even get out there and have a crack at it

well done

[Trust33]

There is some fair dinkum carnage going on there.Must be very quick on those roads.They'd be slippery enuf in the dry from leaves let alone a wet road.

Better luck next year..

[Marlin]

Well, back to sunny Queensland for me today! I'm already suffering "post Targa blues"

Well done to everyone who had a crack at Targa, congrats to all who finished, and commiserations to those who suffered dramas or crashes... eeeek!

Was great to meet some new faces, (well done to you and your dad Ben), and excellent to again see you Greg!

If any piccies are around of #979 (34 GTR), I'd love to see them! Cheers!

[stricko]

Any of us?

Yep!

If you have any of car 108 please email to [email protected]

If need be please give price

I don't seem to have any of your car? What sort of car was it? Did you only do the Rookie Rally or might you have not done the South Riana stage?

If you have anything of a Red EVO 9, number 942 that would be tops.

E-mail to [email protected]

Higest res you've got!!!!

Cheers

Yeah i'd have some of that i reckon, they were taken with a 10.1 megapixel camera so they will be very high res. Will email some time soon.

If any piccies are around of #979 (34 GTR), I'd love to see them! Cheers!

I've got some. PM me an email address, there is like 4 or 5 i think, in a sequence of it going around the corner.

Cheers

Stricko

Edited April 24, 2007 by stricko