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By SLYNE,
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you just gotta look out for the drifting geminis that will be going faster than you... :P

but seriously, there arent geminis on the track at the same time luckily.

If that were the case you would be my no.1 perfect customer!

If you choose a holden, try and get 'bluey' as its the newest and fastest or supercheap. If you go ford they are all pretty similar. i usually have 'ice freddy' dont ask where they get some of their names...

Hey Ryan do you have any say in the parts they fit in the cars? I hope you didn't recommend they fit those auto adjusting tie rods?

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Hey Ryan do you have any say in the parts they fit in the cars? I hope you didn't recommend they fit those auto adjusting tie rods?

:laughing-smiley-014:

I did this about a year ago. Great fun but 5 laps isn't enough. And yeah listen to the instructors to get the most out of it. Unless if you get Ryan...

The day I went 2 cars had a sheared input shaft from people grabbing reverse instead of 4th. Does that still happen? Practice your shifting from 3rd to 4th coz that's all you use in these cars at Calder.

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people think they can make up a ton of time by shifting as fast as they can. they are usually the people who know very little about going fast but try to. The fords have got a hardened input shaft now, which makes them last longer, but they still break eventually. same with the whole driveline, eventually they break, but its usually someone who flat shifts or tries hard to get it into the wrong gear that seals its fate.

None the less, its impressive how much these cars hold up to. in summer on high 30deg days they go all day (8hours) and rarely miss a beat. You could drive them on the limit all day if you look after it.

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make sure u get the new 6L VZ they have, i think they call it nemo (it was a water damaged car) then put on the track, when they got it it had head and cam package pulled like 280kw@rears but the dogs pulled the cam out n put a stocker in so as u guys wouldnt kill urselves lol, but it still has a ported head and higher compression then the rest as well as some neat extractors, deff the 1 to go for!

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not any more, nemo is now the slowest one out there... there are lots of new ones now that are a lot fresher... strangly nemo is the one that got caught in floods in perth i think.. The one you are talking about would be bluey or fuso. they were clubsports therfore they were quicker so they had to slow them a bit.

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