Albany weekend

[Denver]

Read in the events forum someone wanted to see pics of ivans corolla, after its offroad excursion..

http://www.arach.net.au/~creative/Ivan/

Ivan is fairly ok, he suffered some bruising from the harness and a couple of bruised ribs, but otherwise walked away unscatched from what was a big off..

in short it left the road sideways at about 130-150kph we estimate, and the front left of the car hit a tree on the side, after that he can't remember and we didn't get a chance to ask the official who did see it all happen what did happen, but it ended up on its side front end facing up the hill, by looks of things it did a bit of a prioette in the air judging by the gouges it left in the road and the bitumen you can make out in one of those pics stuck in the guard..

hes somewhat thankful of the money he spent on a really good pair of harness's and the seats in the car..

[GTS-t VSPEC]

Denver, Thanks for the pic, hope you boys get it fixed soon and get back out there:D

[Denver]

soon isn't really a posability, ivan hasn't got the spare funds to find a new shell, or fix the current one, options are being looked at and weighed up tho..

see what happens..

classic rally is his aim to have it sorted out and back on the road..

[GTS-t VSPEC]

Get the WRX fixed and get back out there:D

[Denver]

no $ for that either, im aiming for the classic rally with that myself, hopefully with a box considerbly better than standard..

[GTS-t VSPEC]

There aren't any worse boxes are there?

[Denver]

mmmhmmm, the 99/00 onwards boxes are ok in the scale of taking a beating, pre 98 they wern't so flash, the introduction of double syncro's on first second and third made things a little better, but the 94/95 boxes are fairly weak and will pop are a little beating..

[GTS-t VSPEC]

I heard the STi gearsets are much better. What upgrade are you doing?

[Denver]

STI gearset is the same as a normal rex, just a higher ratio which gives it the close ratio effect..

probally a little kinder on things to as you can get more power down in a hurry so it'll generally means the wheels spin before the box gets into a big load sitation..

[N I B]

Bad luck for Ivan I hope things come together for him.

Motorsport crashes in Wa are rare but allways a sad event.

[Mischief]

Thanks for the consern steve. I'm ok.. ribs still hurt when i'm laughing and coughing....small price to pay for an off like that. Any motorpsort accident is always a sad thing. Most importantly I'm walking and "I'll be back" just no idea when.

& yes.. good harnesses & seats are worth their weight in gold.

GTs-VSPEC let us know when ze videos are done. ( -:

[GTS-t VSPEC]

Ivan, No problem buddy, I'll keep you posted:D