Here's what I got up to on the weekend:
Stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3: (long one; 17:48)
Stage 4: (another long one; 17:41)
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:32 am
by popup
Awesome! good quality vid too!
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:05 am
by panda
Well done Jeff. Lucky not to do any damage with the half spin in the second clip. How rare is it to see snow in country devastated by bush-fires. Nice to see all the vegetation regenerating again. How did to finish in the results ?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:11 am
by JJH
Results were secondary at this event as I wanted to test out the new diff as well as play with suspension settings & tyre pressures.
And being a relatively cheap 1.5 day event, I just wanted to use it as a lead up event to Targa High Country in November.
It's really hard to practice for tarmac rallying because you just can't get the same intensity pushing it on open public roads, so this event was perfect.
Having said that, I was pretty happy with my times, but with only 14 cars competing I didn't really have a yard stick to measure up to.
We also took some in-car footage which I was able to use to determine the cause of the little spin in stage 2; for some unknown reason I decide to shift back into second on the left hander which caused the rears to lock-up causing the nice, gentle spin
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:16 am
by redzone
What ratio did u run Jeff?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:42 am
by JJH
4.625, was awesome.
I've made some comments on it in my Cruises & Events post.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:52 pm
by Alspos
Yes, a close call there Jeff! I assume a bit of compression lockup, left turn, moist road and a touch of brake all conspiring to unsettle you.
Could have been worse though......
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:48 pm
by OLD FART
Jeff there were some solid "guide posts" on the stages :D LOL
The roads looked to be a bit challenging due to leaves , bark and running and standing water.
You did well to keep it on the black stuff :beer
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:02 am
by enthuzed
You got some nice flow up Jeff on the second one before the whoopsie...doesn't take much hey!
How long is the third one, I've had three goes at watching these so far...now back to it for me!
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:11 am
by fugazi
enthuzed wrote:How long is the third one
17:48... :beer
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:00 am
by JJH
OLD FART wrote:Jeff there were some solid "guide posts" on the stages :D LOL
Yes, definitely no shortage of reasons for not going off the road, but they all still end up invisible when things are going well.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:56 pm
by RallyStarion
Good to see Jeff.
A couple of the boys from Ralliart were up there and they sent a few pics thru to me over the weekend.
Glad to see you have the 4.6 diff in, now you just have to get some ratios in the box and believe me it will transform the car again. Maybe we should catch up and you can take the Rallycar for a drive.
I have a heap of in car from the Alpine Rally last year but not up to speed on how to load it. Could be a good reason to catch up anyway?
Brian.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:00 am
by JJH
I'll give you a call Brian as I'd like to catch up for that illusive beer :beer
And I spoke to one of the Ralliart guys on Friday, I think it was Peter, he was helping out on a really nice Evo X.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:13 pm
by RallyStarion
Yeh, that would be Pete West. A legend in motorsport, has built two Bathurst winning engines in his time when he worked for Gibson Motorsport.
He came down and serviced for me at the Alpine Rally last year, had a ball.
The pics I saw of your car were sent from him.
Beer sounds good, will be in touch when I am back in town.
