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redzone · Post by **redzone** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:50 am

yeah except this time for once i tried to make it ready weeks in advance.. right now i have a bare block with crank and timing cover sitting in my engine bay... gonna be a long night tonight!

greenstaz82 · Post by **greenstaz82** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:57 pm

hope you get it sorted mate , lookin forward to seeing it out there . :beer

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:26 pm

yep got her there, had it to scrutineering with only half an hour to spare! put 5 km on the motor friday arvo, put it on the trailer, did 200km friday night between gatton and brisbane...

anyway yeah it ran faultlessly all weekend, 38.3 i think was my best time :)

scored 2nd in class AGAIN lol :beer

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:19 pm

Any pics?

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:08 am

The results of the last 2 runs were not posted but I can report that that dam widey of Daves was app 2 seconds faster than my flatty BUT I got better value for my money as I had more track time :)
I was having trouble coming to grips with the TC's strokers lag free power delivery as every time I nailed it in 2nd coming out of a corner or chicane it started snakeing up the road, so after trying something different each run my best time came from driveing it smoothly avoiding wheelspin as much as possible and on that run it threw a power steer belt before the last turn and the final chicane so it felt like a 10 ton truck to steer.Big thanks to Dave for getting it back on and retensioned.
I think I ended up 4th in class unless I did something special on the last run
there were heaps of Evos doing battle with the Rexes with 2 Evos in the top 10 shootout. BTW the XR5 that beat Dave by 1 second to win that class was in the shootout
Other mitsi of interest were a VR4 powered Sigma, a Dash powered Cordia, a turboed VG61 GSR fwd Lancer & a turboed 4G54 Triton ute
I'm sure Dave has some pics that he will post when he gets time.
Looking forwards to the next event so will have to have the boost switch installed by then and set on lo as I tackle the dirt again after more than 2 years absence

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:34 pm

i need to move to qld.

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:19 pm

Rad whens the next dirt event are you going to attend?

Nice work btw dave.

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:44 pm

RiceThief wrote:Rad whens the next dirt event are you going to attend?

Nice work btw dave.

Hopefully the next one .Will yours be ready ??

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:35 pm

Not sure yet it will be close, i've lost too many weekends with all this rain. Definately the May event, but I will still try for the next one.

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:58 pm

cheers rad and bao! there should be pics all over the internet of my car seriously crossed up within a few days, i had some trouble keeping it straight on nearly every run haha. especially at the first chicane into the bottom corner, i did a few keiichi tsuchiya style corner entries over the weekend, as i was majorly on the limit through turn 2 and down the straight, i was nearly flat throttle in 3rd at about 120kph going through turn 2, a few people reckon i was one of the quickest going through that corner, but i reckon i could drop a second off my time just by reducing the dive under brakes, as it gets really light in the ass when i'm on the limit braking...

the widey has some serious corner speed, i can say hankook RS2's are an AWESOME tyre for an all rounder.. especially when you get the pressures right :)

ps pics and vid soon..

groupAralliart · Post by **groupAralliart** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:06 pm

Okay Dave , I'm up Wednesday. Lets get mine out and sorted as I am very jealous! Can not wait to go to an event with you guys and have a Staz to play around with as well. :D

JJH · Post by **JJH** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:42 am

Good stuff Dave & Oldie, really looking forward to seeing the pics & video.
:beer

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:19 pm

just got the timesheets mailed out, my best time was a 37.923

rad got a best of 40.054, my brother peter in the GT4 got 36.700.. hauling!

quickest car there did a best of 32.659!!!!! slowest was a best of 46.777.

groupAralliart · Post by **groupAralliart** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:50 pm

any pics?

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:53 am

waiting on my memory card to come back from my mate before i can post em :)

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