Nissan Datsun 2009 National Meeting Warwick Qld

[wrxkilla]

lol

I think my only one session was a 3.37 also!

will be good to see full results soon somewhere....

[CameronBNR32]

Was good to catch up and see some old faces that haven’t seen for awhile and there was some nice cars out there both locally and interstate.

nice to meet you Noddy, I can't remember if I introduced myself on Sunday? talked to you about your new bottom end and sounds like she will be ever quicker

and to call John Siddons an old man and to go back to polishing his exhaust pipe is a big call there mate.... I respect John as a very accomplished and successful driver and a very nice guy, if he says you were driving in a unsafe manner then I would believe him, I also have seen video of your "safe" driving from a vehicle behind you on friday, and I would of warned you too if I was in John's possition, but hey, maybe you should get better tyres?

I guess it's why I like to hang around with my father's acquaintances of the older generation of "been there, accomplished that" than people of my own age group with rather inflated unwarranted egos....

Edited April 13, 2009 by CameronBNR32

[dat2kman]

unofficial times, fastest three lap, including standing start, with two flying, no individual lap times were taken by organisers.

Car 81 Mark Berry 3.22:41 (First outright)

Car 12 John Penlington 3.33:72 ( Second outright)

Car 82 Russell Newman 3.37:09 ( Third outright)

Car 79 Mike Whelan 3.37:22

Oh, and some really old model Datsun, built in 1968, a two door convertible, running all stock 1968 2 litre motor in atmo form did a time of 3.40:81, ( 3 second slower then Russell - not too shabby for a 42 y/o car, eh)

Official results to be published on Zed car Club Qld website soon?? hopefully

[dat2kman]

anyone else want to know any other times?

Anyone get any pics? lets see'em

plenty of incars, a edited dvd of whole event will be for sale via Zed Club Qld website, get in touch with them there to order copies, something like 1500 pics and 15 hours fottage were done by them, and they are going to try to edit it all down to two hours or so? if still pics and video with loud SOUND

[giant]

car 79 was very fast!! looked good too!!

would love to have seen marks or jp's times on slicks!

the r35 had quite abit more in it , as it laps there on street rubber at about the 1:07's, the 1968 2ltr atmo car getting 3 sec's off me has more to do with my driving skill (or lack of) & caution (as a few cars came together , which was unusual) & my car leaving for targa tomorrow. also think that 3.37.09 was my third & last run which was in the rain!! which makes me happy.

[giant]

one thing i found a little odd was the car of the show being awarded to a holden powered vehicle.

not taking anything away from that beautifully prepared car though!

[Strik3r]

we could tell from the bridge that you wern't pushing the 35 too hard russ. Pity the rain didn't stay away cause you looked like you were going a bit faster every lap.

Best moment of the day was in the first session mark flinging the 34 between the 2 cars that had just had a bit of a bump in turn 1. Im guessing caution isn't part of his vocabulary

[giant]

yeah mark came back in and said he decided not to hang around and wait for them to touch again so he shot by them !! lol

[dat2kman]

one thing i found a little odd was the car of the show being awarded to a holden powered vehicle.

not taking anything away from that beautifully prepared car though!

At the presentation night, the winner ofcar of the show?/perpetual award? went to a Nissan 280ZX, owned by kevin james, must admit I never got to see his motor, was it something like an RB30 Nissan engine? or did it have older L28 motor??, saw it driving around town, it had a little trailer being towed, think it contained all his polishing and cleaning stuff! Dunno, maybe check with Ray F, the show/shine organiser on that one.

[giant]

ahhh good to hear !

some absolutely stunning cars on display

[Gts-t]

yeah mark came back in and said he decided not to hang around and wait for them to touch again so he shot by them !! lol

I headed out to morgan park for the first time, glad i wasnt half an hour later or i would have missed the r34!! Coming around the final turn and onto the straight was mind blowing

[dat2kman]

car 79 was very fast!! looked good too!!

would love to have seen marks or jp's times on slicks!

the r35 had quite abit more in it , as it laps there on street rubber at about the 1:07's, the 1968 2ltr atmo car getting 3 sec's off me has more to do with my driving skill (or lack of) & caution (as a few cars came together , which was unusual) & my car leaving for targa tomorrow. also think that 3.37.09 was my third & last run which was in the rain!! which makes me happy.

Aw, don't kid yourself, we know you're a pretty good steerer, and have been for quite a few years now!

the 3.37 was on your second run of the day, ( dry run), in the wet last run you did a cautious 3.43:65, and the old little 68' jobbie did a 3.43:75 in same greasy conditions. Good luck for Targa, and show them what a modern car can really do!

[giant]

thanks jason

reason i thought it must have been my third run, is i was sure that car 79 had gone quicker than me, but i probably just read the board wrong

cant wait to get down to targa, atleast the conditions are the same here at the moment!!

i took some pictures on my phone of a gorgeous 1200 coupe, i will try and upload.

[CameronBNR32]

I also heard the 280zx had some form of Holden V8 under the bonnet?

Edited April 13, 2009 by CameronBNR32

[Gts-t]

a few more

[giant]

pic of one sweet ride, loved it

[FranZ]

Do anyone know where I could find full results of the sprint? Congrats to Mark, JP and Russ!

Edited April 13, 2009 by FranZ

[wrxkilla]

Was good to catch up and see some old faces that haven’t seen for awhile and there was some nice cars out there both locally and interstate.

nice to meet you Noddy, I can't remember if I introduced myself on Sunday? talked to you about your new bottom end and sounds like she will be ever quicker

and to call John Siddons an old man and to go back to polishing his exhaust pipe is a big call there mate.... I respect John as a very accomplished and successful driver and a very nice guy, if he says you were driving in a unsafe manner then I would believe him, I also have seen video of your "safe" driving from a vehicle behind you on friday, and I would of warned you too if I was in John's possition, but hey, maybe you should get better tyres?

I guess it's why I like to hang around with my father's acquaintances of the older generation of "been there, accomplished that" than people of my own age group with rather inflated unwarranted egos....

I had new RE55s. I was never told my driving was unsafe, I was told I was drifting. Infact if the stewards had discussed it in a better manner it would have left a better taste in my mouth. It was more probably how it was approached. I was some yahoo unwanted drifter. lol

Look I'm over it. I have a lot of respect for acomplished drivers, I have not even a quater the driving ability and am not entering a d1ck swinging contest. Its not about that. They went a little too power hungry. My video says it all. Thats my only full session.

Its all good, It's over.

Well done on the results all.

Russ you only just pipped me!

Looking forward to more pics of the weekend, some awesome cars on display.

Michael

[wrxkilla]

pic of one sweet ride, loved it

That was probably my pick at the show n shine, carwas phenominal. Hope it picked up something?

[OSR220]

I enjoyed the week end! well most of it.

Practice Friday went out on a set of 205/50/15 Ku36 road tyres and was doing consistant 1:14-1:16 laps latter in the day was having issues with power oversteer issues under the bridge and out of corner 5 i think it is the right hander going up to the T just could not get the power down.

So on with the slicks and managed to do 1:12 laps on my first practice. when i came in my dip stick had popped out. so I cleaned up all the oil and got the biggest zip tie i could and tied the dipstick down fueled it up and was ready for what would be the last run of the day and it was! my girlfriend timed my three flying laps at 3:33 with a 1:12, 1:10, 1:11 splits coming out of the T in to the flip flop a bit of smoke started from my left wheel thinking i had a tyre rubbing i backed off, while looking in the rear vision mirror to see what traffic was going to catch me seen a huge cloud of smoke billowing out the rear followed by through the dash and air vents. I'm on fire!!. I came to a stop on the side of the track and was able to put the fire out in one short blast of the extinguisher (very lucky for an oil fire around a turbo and manifold i could almost see through it was that red.

Saterday. Supacheap 9:00am $150 later and a mission in front of me.

between 10am- 2pm i stiped/ inspected and repaired my standard wiring loom and rewired my Power FC and AVCR sensor looms and both sides of the control gear for my spitfire coils . the fire had also melted the silcone and rubber hoses going to the oil catch can and the heater hoses for the incar heating. so i lost all my coolant as well.

was hoping for a test run at the drags but it was canned due to rain.

Sunday and first run out and reveled my fate. No boost control i was limited to the HKS auctuator's 12psi (lucky not a 8psi one) not my normal 17/18psi low boost or 21psi high

so was having trouble geting down below 1:13 flying laps and with a bogged start on nearly every session 1:18 standing my time was a 3:44/45 over and over (wish it was a regularity event)

so a bit dissapointed that i had the potentiol on friday to do 3:37.

Still had a heap of fun out there one of my least and fav runs was the one it started raining. I started along side an old bloke in a red 260z and the bugger got me off the line i then spent a lap and a half sitting behind him trying to find a gap but as he was the one touching panels in front of Marks run i didn't risk it and his was covering the inside line every were, eventually Russ and Brad were catching us i thought if I was to let Russ past he might have more luck. but the rain started and the officials would have loved it as the three of us coming on to the main staight all three of us were clocking up the lock to counter the drift train we were in trying to get a run on the 260z.

Thanks to Dat2Kman for the work you and your team put in to organsising the event.