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V35-2005

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Sir Kimbo (Sorry mate, blame that one on Gav),

I've just sent my form off to Dean for the course. Can't wait.

Cheers

Butters

Nice one :)

Glad to hear that you're in for this event after the long absence! I'll do a head count at the end of the week for final numbers. I think that we're getting towards 3/4 full now :(

Last call for the rest of you dragging your heels.

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think I forgot to let you know my form is in and confirmed. see y'all there for a good day out :P

hey Kim got any star attractions lined up to make the F430 look like a 1994 Celica?

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the F430 is difficult to top - it's hard to coax more exotic cars out of their hiding places for this sort of thing. i suspect that you will have more chance of seeing them on Rundle Street...

I will have a GT3 or two out there on the day if that's any consolation :P

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the F430 is difficult to top - it's hard to coax more exotic cars out of their hiding places for this sort of thing. i suspect that you will have more chance of seeing them on Rundle Street...

I will have a GT3 or two out there on the day if that's any consolation :whistling:

One belonging to a lawyer named Aris by any chance?

ButtaS15 Newbie

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Kim,

I've just emailed JB Drive School (copied you in) to inform that I'd like to cancel or postpone my enrolement for the upcoming course due to some cooling issues that the dyno operator picked up on yesterday. Car is getting quite hot just on dyno pulls. Temp gauge is still reading normal. Not good.

On a positive note, power has increased from 146rwkw to 192.

Cheers

Butters

PS......SAU team I guess this technically means there is another spot open so if you were umming and arring here's your chance. This would have been my third JB day. Majorly dissapointed, but happy that I know a major meltdown has been averted.

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Hey Guys,

Does anyone here have an ADR approved helmet that i could borrow for the day?

I was going to borrow my brothers mates helmet but that's fallen through.

My number is 0421 125 183

I am not on here all the time so get me on my mobile.

Cheers,

V35-2005 Community Regular

V35-2005

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looks like we'll have a nice group of Nissans out on the track on Wednesday (I have five listed at the moment) :P

hopefully the weather will be a bit cooler by then. I'm not too worried about the showers/rain forecast as a cool change by the afternoon would be welcome.

I look forward to seeing you all out there on the day!

Brezza - I'll give you a call tomorrow to see how you're going with finding a helmet.

eevo Rookie

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Hey Guys,

Does anyone here have an ADR approved helmet that i could borrow for the day?

I was going to borrow my brothers mates helmet but that's fallen through.

My number is 0421 125 183

I am not on here all the time so get me on my mobile.

Cheers,

sms sent

depends how big your head is. i have a medium and a large.

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The day was fun as!!!

Cheers to everyone who organised it,

Learn't a bit about my car, and also what its capable of with a experienced driver behind the wheel. The instructor pushed the car harder than I've ever had the guts to.

Sucked through plenty of fuel, but got a heap of laps done.

No overheating issues with the car, all water and oil temps stayed low. oil didnt even budge over 90, thanks cheap oil cooler kit!

Spun out twice in the wet, ran off into the dirt once at the hairpin when i tried my luck at hitting 180 and braking late! haha

the only things i would possibly change is get some proper track pads, in the wet the A1RM's were fine. but in the dry after 3 hard laps they needed to cool down.

Will be definitely removing stone guards and replacing the clutch to a twin plate.

my clutch is the only part that really suffered a beating! before the day i had the pedal adjusted so that the clutch engages around the middle of the release of the pedal, and at the end of the day it only engages just a few mm before my foot is off the pedal.

Highly recommend for anyone else to do the course!

Will be keen to do it again.

I only managed 1m34s and it was at the begining of the day, and my first time out there.

ButtaS15 Newbie

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The day was fun as!!!

Absolutely.

The rain only enhanced the fear/fun factor. Had a few brown pant moments coming around the sweeper after the northern hairpin. Cranking sideways in third, then fourth at 100+km/h. Scary stuff. Learn't a lot about wet driving that's for sure. I was very surprised about how hard you can push the car in the wet. Just requires judicious use of the throttle and gentle steering inputs. In most cases a slight lift would bring the car back into line if the back stepped out. That said there were still a few times I went round trying to exit the second gear hairpins, and one spin under brakes entering the right hander into the esses.

Managed a best of 1:32 dead in the dry, and 1:42.6 in the wet after most of the standing water had cleared up (Thanks Porsche dudes). Surprisingly I still managed to knock out a 1:43.6 late in the day when the steady rain was really starting to come down, so I'm well happy with that. My driving definately improved as the day wore on and I got more relaxed in the car. Would love to have seen what time I could have put down towards the end of the day if it stayed dry.

For those that are interested in lap timing, I gave Race Chrono a go on my Nokia. The two timed laps that I did early in the day were accurate to a tenth of a second against the stop watch so it's a handy and inexpensive tool for trackies such as ourselves. Maybe not the best for a serious racer chasing hundreth's of seconds.

It gives you lap times, sector splits for time and ave speed, hi/low sector speeds, vmax and min per lap and gives you a trace (i.e. overlay on map) that shows your braking zones, acceleration zones etc. A neat feature is it automatically calculates what your potential best lap would have been from each session by putting together your best sector splits. In my case my four best dry track sectors would have given me a 1:30.2.

Once I figure out how to download the data from the phone I'll try and post up some screen dumps.

All in all, another great day. Be good to see a full field out there again next time round.....although having a clear track most of the time was kinda nice.

Cheer all.

Krishy Grand Master

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sounds like it was a fun day out there. well the rain made it exciting for a few people also don't forget that with the rain the track temps would have been lower. so michael those temps would be getting up there on a warmish day. i personally run the A1RM's on my car and for me they didn't need to be cooled down after 3 hot laps mate. i was doing 10 hot lap sessions and there was no brake fade or it felt like it needed to be cooled down.

i remember my first time out there and the whole day i managed a best lap of 1:28:xxx and that was on street tires etc.

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