Car is now sold and delivered....

It went to Noosa today, so you will still see it around.

MR2 here we come. see you at the next hillcimb. But now i move up a class.

(I am stilll allowed to white stuff here, beceuse i still have one datto left in the stable)

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well done

course you are

PS you were right about my starting problem
even thouhg the sparky disagreed and took my money from me to fix the wrong problem.

sometimes its just the simple things... but hard to find i bet.

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i found it by accident
had the ignition on and grabbed the earth.

you should have seen them trying to fix my highbeams.
there were 4 of them trying to figure it out even though i told them it was an earth switching system as opposed to positive, at least their boss understood what i was on about.

oh and they drilled a hole in my dash for a new switch without checking first as well


PS I tried the braided grinder attachment around the top of one of the doors - works well.

Jeff,

are you running on Sunday.. New car still not ready but i will come up for a look.

Our club is running a RAlly in Northern NSW on the saturday which should finish about midnight, so i should be there about lunch (and very tired)

Cheers,

PS, its nice to hear when your advice is helpful

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yes Alex I'll be there
you can check out my new "home handyman" flared guards !
you outsmarted those sparky's alright !

Jeff is it just Saturday this weekend or Sunday too.

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Luke, it's just Sunday see calendar here http://www.mgccq.org.au/calendar.htm

no body turned up ?

anyway had a good day, ran a pb of 49.28
jeffs eye view here http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?do ... 0&q=gotpwr
did some grass cutting and ran out of road on another run

If I have any spare tickets to qld champs first week of june does anybody want them ?

sorry jeff,

was late coming back from the rally. had fun though.
is your car logbooked ? for state champs i think its a requirement.

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yeah its logbooked, 3J from memory.

slowly getting faster! good work

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Yeah learning more about the track every time
I was running softer rebound on the front
and lower rear tyre pressures on the weekend.

I should have the negative camber removed from the rear for the qld champs so with some luck I will get into the 48's. It's a real big leap though to find the magic run to get there !

well the qld hilllcimb championships have been run and won.

the overall winning car was a supercharged vw engined open wheeler with a time of 37.42
with the v8 turbo Mclaren powered Gould imported from england coming second with a time of 37.47 (this is a million dollar car)
fastest sedan was a 2.2 ltr turbo 2 door wrx with a time of 43.87 (which is pretty awsome considering the thing is a road registered import)

35th outright (out of 77) entries was the old n/a powered 1600 with a time of 48.45

The car is handling awesome now !
I made some handling adjustments after practise on Saturday
(clip includes first sunday run)
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?do ... 6964636542
and the car was just brilliant on Sunday

The gearbox issue helped me find the nuts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEvtAqkU_8
which caused only very minor damage

the very next run I put down a PB and class winning time of 48.45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BYfYmjgPs

the class record is only 48.2 so i'm now gunning for it !
winning the 2.0 ltr road reg class was almost a matter of atrition yesterday
the only competition ended up being a fair bit slower than me.

I had a weird fuel lock issue that i need to resolve for next time as well
but it only affected one run which was still under 50 seconds anyway.

Thanks for all of your help with ideas on this car
cheers Jeff

well done jeff.. into the 48's WOW.

that a good result, and well done on the win. whats the drama with the fuel lock? maybe i can help/

I am hopefully heading to QR on wednesday for a sprint and the first run in the new car. still not running, but we are tuning it saturday so fingers crossed. Bring on the wide bay sprint.

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