Tarmac Rallying Perpetual Thread

[PHaT MR30]

Over and out see you guys in 2 weeks, Im off to work on my tan for a week on the Gold Coast, at someone elses expense

[Marlin]

Have fun fudge packer.

[BLUEGTR]

Any joy with the 4WD Matt?

Yeah seems to be fairly good now after a good bleed, but still going to try and get a pressure gauge on it next week.

Edited October 22, 2010 by BLUEGTR

[Marlin]

i still find the best way to bleed the things is on a hoist, wheels in the air. Bleed them at the nipple on the transfer while someone's in the car creating a "wheelspin" situation.... if you know what I mean?

[Burgz32]

i still find the best way to bleed the things is on a hoist, wheels in the air. Bleed them at the nipple on the transfer while someone's in the car creating a "wheelspin" situation.... if you know what I mean?

i just unplug the bleed wire in the RH kick panel, and let the pump pulse with someone in the boot tipping

oil in, while i crack thre bleed nipple on the transfer

but then again most GTR transfer's need a good rebuild by this point in there life,

when we measured up my spare box it needed 90 thou worth of shim's to get it back

to almost factory spec..

[Bazil_1]

We spent the last 3 days down in the area for our recce. Course looks very interesting, plenty of fast long corners

The dirt section between Jamieson and Big River seems to have been graded all the way through now and is fairly smooth with no holes etc... There is a lot of small, loose gravel on the top though which will bury themselves into our tyres.

How does everyone plan to clean out their tyres? We were thinking of taking an ice scraper style thing and a screw driver to clean as much as we can out of the tyres, that's if there is enough time before the start of the next stage.

[2pee]

Hope you're not contemplating working in control....or have the head games started already?

[marinetowing]

The dirt section between Jamieson and Big River seems to have been graded all the way through now and is fairly smooth with no holes etc... There is a lot of small, loose gravel on the top though which will bury themselves into our tyres.

How does everyone plan to clean out their tyres? We were thinking of taking an ice scraper style thing and a screw driver to clean as much as we can out of the tyres, that's if there is enough time before the start of the next stage.

Don't worry about it...It's exactly the same as the Pelverata Stage at TWP- straight off the stage and onto the gravel road, you will find all the rocks will clear themselves as soon as you get back on the tarmac.

We are leaving this Sunday, really looking forward to it!

[haw001]

I'm sure this has already been covered somewhere, but can anyone confirm the bowsers with 98 for Targa High Country? I"m going to sign up with race Fuels as a backup, but I'd like to fill from the bowser as much as possible.

Mark

[haw001]

Has anyone got the latest High Country GPS kmz file? The one I have is from Sep 21, and I can't seem to find the link for the file anymore.

[navdan]

I'm sure this has already been covered somewhere, but can anyone confirm the bowsers with 98 for Targa High Country? I"m going to sign up with race Fuels as a backup, but I'd like to fill from the bowser as much as possible.

Mark

The BP on the Mt Buller Rd in Mansfield has 98. We pass it Friday for prologue, Saturday morning after Mirimbah and Saturday arvo prior to Mt Buller...hope they have big tanks!!!

Sunday we're clean outta luck!

(oh and from memory the Caltex on the main st of Mansfield has Vortex 98 as well)

Hope that helps

[haw001]

What's the official/legal ruling on carrying fuel. I know we had the warning about being safe, but there was no clear cut definition of what is considered safe, and more to the point, what is legal.

The only ruling I can find is that there is a maximum of 250L allowed per passenger vehicle, but no definition on how it is to be carried.

[haw001]

Caltex Mansfield has 98.

[Snowman]

There is 98 in Wang on Sat lunch as well (Shell) - but as mentioned no luck for Sunday at all.

[Bazil_1]

Hope you're not contemplating working in control....or have the head games started already?

Ooooppppssss yeah won't be doing that *reads over regs again...

The Caltex at Eildon has 98 too, not sure how 'fresh' it would be though as it is not really the middle of anywhere...

[marinetowing]

Has anyone got the latest High Country GPS kmz file? The one I have is from Sep 21, and I can't seem to find the link for the file anymore.

I just emailed it to you.

Edited October 25, 2010 by marinetowing

[Snowman]

So I see YT is racing his 5th different Lambo now! LOL

It's now an LP570-4. Nice

[haw001]

I just emailed it to you.

Thanks, I'll compare it to the one I have. If I've got anything newer, I'll post it up.

[navdan]

So I see YT is racing his 5th different Lambo now! LOL

It's now an LP570-4. Nice

Prolly just had it lying around out the back...

[sav man]

So I see YT is racing his 5th different Lambo now! LOL

It's now an LP570-4. Nice

I wonder how much notice he was given to convert it this time?