Show Me Your Racing Machines

[screamin']

Anyhoo,

my first little incident on the track.

Ohh, accident damage! How many of you guys out there have some pics to share?

Here's my first attempt at crashing a car las year. Don't know if you've seen it already.

Bent the rear suspension arm and buckled two wheels, smashed back window, dented the fuel tank, smashed headlight etc. Got it fixed in two weeks and didn't miss an event!

My latest attempt from the other week, just clipped a bank on my way to 2nd in class and my fastest run of the day.

[guesty]

Here is some pics of my latest off road excursion. Looked like it was going to be my fastest sprint of the day.

[Duncan]

pfft thats not crashed. check out how mark does it

[evil_weevil]

Ouch!!!

[Al]

pfft thats not crashed. check out how mark does it

Pfft rear bar is untouched

[giant]

hehe nice stacks!!

here's mine, no brakes and then pulling the handbrake on in shear panic!! nearly ran into the porsche 4wd in the background

[Beer Baron]

russ, your crash is awesome. lol. looks like you found a nice jump and went for it stunt man style! hahaha.

[Roy]

Many have already seen this, but this is the first lap of a supersprint at Sandown....

Gearbox was blowing fluid out the breather and split boot all over the underside of the car = locked rear brakes OR shitty suspension just didnt ride the bumps of the back straight so locked up over the bump OR just ran out of talent

[phunky_monkey]

Screamin: Love the car, and the fact that you rally it!

Rally is my favourite form of motorsport, but I've never looked into it too much as I have always thought it would be massively expensive.

Do you have any details of the events you do in NZ? What kind of costs are involved for a year, if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers

Dane

[giant]

holy shit roy that was a bit of ride! just snapped straight out on you, oil on the tyres = no much fun at that speed

[N1GTR]

hehe nice stacks!!

here's mine, no brakes and then pulling the handbrake on in shear panic!! nearly ran into the porsche 4wd in the background

Ive seen that video heaps, always wondered who owned that car!

[Angus Smart]

Holy shit! batman!

[BOZ22N]

I think you done well to only sustain the damage you did.

Many have already seen this, but this is the first lap of a supersprint at Sandown....

Gearbox was blowing fluid out the breather and split boot all over the underside of the car = locked rear brakes OR shitty suspension just didnt ride the bumps of the back straight so locked up over the bump OR just ran out of talent

[phunky_monkey]

Some big offs there boys! That's the first time I've seen the vid of yours Troy, geez you were lucky mate...

I remember seeing the incar vid of yours Russ, scary stuff.

Well, my car is making a bit more progress, so hopefully not too long now. I just got my new plenum, fuel rail, throttle body, injectors and FPR, as well as my rocker cover back with new fittings added to it. Also had the bay seam welded and painted. Now I just need to get my manifold sorted and we can put the last pieces back together. Can't wait to get back in the thing, it's been way too long!

[R32gts-t]

plenum looks hot Dane

it will be cool to see your car back out there...

so, now that you have the seam work, sell me your tomei tri point brace, it won't fit over your plenum... there's no point even checking, safer to just send it my way

[Roy]

I think you done well to only sustain the damage you did.

Yeh i was lucky....here is me doing my best attempt at looking shocked by the damage...fact is i was stoked that it was as minor as it was.

In hindsight i normally give the car two laps before i have a go...if i had of stuck to that routine i would have picked there was something wrong on the warm up lap. I went for it on the first lap as i wanted to bag a time and wanted to get on with it before the tyre and water/oil temps got too high. Sandown has so much wide open throttle that temps in my car really climb quickly. Oh well

[Noddy]

Well its not the most embarassing thing to do, have an off, at least you were having a red hot go. Not putting the bonnet pins in...... theres a story.

I lost some of it along the way and need to have it in better shape for Gatton this weekend, So it is dodge it up time in the shed.

I will have to get a new one soon. I promise.

[giant]

hey noddy

i saw that happen up there, nice place for that to happen!!

i thought i had seeen your car before! looks good, good to see you have built up your self too

[screamin']

Screamin: Love the car, and the fact that you rally it!

Rally is my favourite form of motorsport, but I've never looked into it too much as I have always thought it would be massively expensive.

Do you have any details of the events you do in NZ? What kind of costs are involved for a year, if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers

Dane

It's really cheap when compared to building a car for track work. The biggest money saving factor is that hp doesn't always help you go faster on the loose stuff.

My car is just a stock engined GTS. Currently building a new motor but.

I stripped the car myself, got all the panel work fixed (the car was pretty rough) put in a cage, race seats, harnesses, removed the HICAS etc and was on the startline of my first event for $4,500NZ including buying the car for $1,000.

Ongoing costs are not bad, as long as you don't keep crashing! I've been rallying the car for 12 months and now I'm starting on some development work with suspension, engine etc, so I'll be spending some coin now.

At Clubsport level you don't need the best of everything, I run against some pretty trick Escorts and one big $$$ R30 - was only 0.5 seconds of him the other weekend!

If you want to see the build and more rally pics go here: (that's if the website server doesn't crash!)

screamin' rally

[STR8E180]

this is mine

it hasn't hit the track yet because i only just bought it but as soon as ii get it back on the road i intend on testing it out on the track

im abit worried about the standard bottom end and oil system but im gonna put it on the track any way