Jump to content
SAU Community

ANDRA Sport Compact Director checkin in!

Racin Jason
 Share

Recommended Posts

Racin Jason Apprentice

Racin Jason

Posted
Posted

G'Day,

Thought it was high time I pulled my finger out and dropped you all intro. :wavey:

My name is Jason O'Halloran (Racin Jason - the alter ego) and as most of you already know I'm the ANDRA Sport Compact Director.

Man where do I start,....nah stuff it you guys know all the good news/ bad news so far.

What a start to the official Sport Compact scene here in Australia!!

I would like to publically thank everyone who came and made all the Sport Compact events that have been held in the last 2 months so successful.

This is just the begining.....so the crowds were GOOD. The turnout of cars was GREAT. And the best bit is we have so much to look forward too. I take my hat off to you all, for with out the Tracks, the racers, the forums, the magazines,and the decent attitudes of people like NSW Premier Bob Carr - Sport Compact drag racing would be a pipe dream.

Kind of ironic the main politician behind the development of WSID has a name like Carr - maybe we can get him into a turbo RX-3 and pack him a change of jocks too!!!

OK so where now? We are currently revising the ANDRA Sport Compact rules, with the veiw to OZing them up a bit. They are suited more to the NHRA (USA) vehicles, and our vehicle demorgraphic is vastly different to our mates across the pond.

I see great development in the 'street tyre' classes, and the development of a seperate Sport AWD/4WD is definately on the drawing board. Minimum weights are also being checked, as they favour larger vehicles. They will now doubt be revised to suit the smaller/ older vehicles that Australia is renown for, ie RX3/ Datto 1200 etc.

Oh and we have a new logo about to be released as well!! It's the mutt's nuts to say the least - simple, techno, and very cool. More on that very soon!

Finally, I will try to check this site for any questions you may have, so feel free to ask away. If you want to go further, try the ANDRA website for more details....hell give me a buzz if you're really stuck.

I must say I love Sport Compact racing....not because I'm employed by ANDRA, but because I'm just a regular NOS sniffing, hi-flow spooling boost junkie like the rest of you. I know I'm going to make some enemies from the decisions I make, but they are all done in the best interests of the Sport.

Shit, if I make as many friends as I do enemies then life will be fine. So drop me a line.....after all I'm just speed lovin, nut bar like the rest of you.

Cheers for now

funkymonkey Grand Master

funkymonkey

Posted
Posted

Just checked the website, specifically the ANDRA Affiliated Clubs section.

I've noticed that neither Sandown nor Calder are listed on your list of Drag tracks.

Now my two main questions are these:

Can we become an affiliate club, what do we have to do, what are the benefits and what are the costs?

And do you plan on including the above mentioned two raceways into your list of associated tracks, as the VIC chapter of SAU is very much interested in getting into the 1/4 mile drag scene (seeing as we now have a 617rwkw R33 GTR). We have members who are itching to do quarter mile drags but due to CAMS and costs of venue hire we're finding it extremely hard. Can you advice on anything we can do to make this reality?

Cheers,

Shan Moorthy

SAU VIC

Oh and here's a mugshot of Mr O'Halloran in case someone bumps into him on the street :D

2rismo Grand Master

2rismo

Posted
Posted

lol...

any chance of reducing the size of that foto dude?

Not having ANDRA sanctioned events in those states sucks some serious type of arse. Come on, how long before they/you get your acts together?

Adrian

funkymonkey Grand Master

funkymonkey

Posted
Posted

its a direct link off the andra website... i say fire your webdesigner (n hire me :D). I didn't think it'd be that large... yikes...

well I was trying to be more polite than that but yeah, how long till we get some ANDRA action?

funkymonkey Grand Master

funkymonkey

Posted
Posted

lol well we need some sort of regulation, and besides the guys unning 10's do it in their own time. I was more concerned with getting the members more access to 1/4 drag comps etc.

  • 1 month later...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • pogman
      Low oil pressure after WOT

      By pogman · Posted

      Ok interesting i guess ill wait till using a manual gauge before making assumptions.
    • GTSBoy
      Low oil pressure after WOT

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      Not in any way a logical conclusion. Also, looking at those logs, I struggle to see how that much oil pressure can go away that fast unless you are sucking air into the pickup. Meanwhile the ECU voltage is chucking a huge wobbly which seems to be tied to the throttle position. 100% throttle results in decreasing voltage. It's a mess.
    • pogman
      Low oil pressure after WOT

      By pogman · Posted

      So didn't get around to installing a manual oil pressure gauge and then decided to take the car for a cruisey drive to a cars and coffee and brought the laptop along with to get another log using more gears to see if its an oil pressure issue under acceleration or after. this log has 3 gears of WOT where as previous had 2 and the oil pressure dropped once on the brakes, and the same again happens here which is interesting as it shows it can hold oil pressure while under acceleration but once slowing or just the lower RPM after a pull pressure drops. I will be chucking a manual oil pressure gauge on to confirm but so far this makes me feel it is not an electrical issue. Something else i realised is the pressure sensor also is giving temperature information and the temp stays steady the whole time which makes me feel like the sensor itself is showing a true pressure reading.
    • Dose Pipe Sutututu
      NC MX5

      By Dose Pipe Sutututu · Posted

      LOL.... fk...   there goes 25K to make 200kW
    • dbm7
      R33 GTS25 NA - Stalling when vehicle is at operating temp

      By dbm7 · Posted

      For sure the later RB26 variants had a different setup (6 cam voltage sender?), but the RB25DE/DET share the same ECU pinout/PCB footprint, and at the ECU plug it ends up being 'throttle sensor in' & 'throttle sensor out' (to A/T TCU) ...you stick a multimeter on these pins and you'll find them directly connected (0 ohms) ; I had an pair of Nissan ECUs on the bench long ago, and I noticed this throttle sensor in/out link, actually linked to an op-amp ...which was unpopulated on the NA board, but present on the T board and I went 'ah-ha!' in some moment of clarity... ...it wouldn't surprise me if they changed strategy here though (in the software and actual monitoring of this signal), because they did with other stuff (A/T signals).. and 0.45v as a trigger point makes sense, as that's what the external TCU units expect at idle ; kudos, thanks for that insight...I suppose it boils down to whether or not Consult can display real time data of that signal's voltage... ...in any event, it presents the same target...ie; rotate TPS unit to achieve 0.45v to suit both ECU&TCU, and where do you goto from there? Just disconnect TPSwitch connector and/or that plus TPSensor connector....or do you go for the throat and disconnect IACV solenoid and see if it still stalls? (probably throws a recoverable fault code and goes for default idle strategy?)...
×
×
  • Create New...