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I managed a couple of 1:13.1s before the brand new front Michelin slicks had a melt down

See you lads tomorrow

Haha, I've heard that one before. I'll be scratching around the 1:15/ 1:16s and you'll be smoking us doing 1:13s

All paid up, see you guys there.

As per the title there's an open day at Hampton Downs on Sunday 11th March. Daytime session 9am - 4pm $135 per car - if you pre-register on the website I'm going along as are a few friends. I have nothing to do with the organising, I just thought I'd give anyone who might be keen a heads up. Details below and in the link http://hamptondowns.co.nz/pages/201/public...wn-car!.htm

None left the factory in Germany as RHD, they were all LHD as they should have stayed. A few were converted with BMW endorsement in Australia by Gardiner (I think).

Another video taken from my IPhone

Here's another video courtesy of Conrad. It's in car footage from the Gp.5 Zakspeed Escort (best car there I reckon) following Conrad's 1992 DTM M3

^^ I prefer the intake sound over any music! So many good youtube videos are ruined by some shitty music.

Bonnet Cam from Saturday 21st Group A and Historics

Very small update chaps. Today I replaced the springs with some linear Eibach springs as the car had some progressive ones in it. I ended up going for some 800 Ib front and 500 Ib rears after much head scratching. I got some helper springs to keep the rear springs captive as when the car is up off the ground there was about 50mm of slop with the spring. Also purchased and installed a Cusco rear sway bar. On the way from Japan is an Ikeya tie rod end set. Made a cardboard mockup of the centre console, maily to hide the dash bars. Will probably make the final thing up tomorrow from aluminium. Rear sway bar Rear springs in Fronts done

Hi Eddie, Still haven't plucked up the courage to commit to a specific rate and buy them mate. People are saying that with how stiff the HKS Hypermax suspension is there's not a lot of point in running a super hard spring. Was hoping to have a chat to you if you've got the time?

Well back from the wilderness that is filming on location and back to reality Not a lot has happened since the last update but we're hoping to have the car back together for some January trackdays. Decided to finish the rears in a month or so and are hanging out to get the car on the track so have unfortunately put the stock brakes back on the rear. Ended up getting a good deal on a set of new discs. Made an extra set of caliper brackets on the water jet cutter and then milled a step in them. The new sets bolt holes are 2mm wider to push the caliper further to the edge of the disc. Garage clutter Hats are done and anodised black

We were thinking about painting them entirely black (possibly matt) with some red centre caps. What do you reckon, too grimey? Something like this, speedy photochop

Small update, hot off the tools comes some new hats From this To this (still needs a bit of finishing)

Rightio chaps, Not a lot of news on the car front since July. Bought a set of near new Michelin slicks (only done 12 laps at Taupo). They were used for a back to back test on a NZV8 car to see if the car would be quicker on the Michelins than the current regulation Dunlops. Apparently they were 2-3 seconds per lap quicker than the Dunlops. We also bought a used brake package from an NZV8 race car for a very good price and got a few sets of brand new Performance Friction pads 01, 03 and 97 compounds, also a few spare sets of Performance friction front discs and Wilwood rears. In an ideal world we would have splashed out for a set of used V8 Supercar Alcons but currently can't justify spending that kind of coin and were so sick of the factory R32 GTR brakes that we think this will be a good mid-way brake setup. We have to design and make new brake hats and caliper brackets to get them to work with the GTR. Front disc dummied up using washers to space out the NZV8 hat to get some measurements. Front caliper brackets were whipped up at work on the water jet cutter out of 12mm plate Rear dummied up, I think the easiest thing to do with the rear calipers is to re-drill them from the 135mm Wilwood bolt hole spacing down to 115mm Nissan spacing and we wont have to worry about a caliper bracket which looks pretty tricky for the rear. Still not convinced there is enough free space to re-drill the caliper down from 135mm to 115mm. Has anyone been down this path before? Very very loose mock-up with the wheel on to check clearance. Also bought a set of 17x9" Et20 BBS LMs Here's our current front brake hat design, pretty confident it will work. Still not 100% certain on what diameter the centre bore should be and also what size to make the stud holes (we're aware the studs are M12). The hats will be turned up on the CNC mill and lathe at work. If anyone has been down this path before and sees any errors with our design or would like to add anything please let us know

I think the black wheels really make the car, great buy by the way.

3D Live (who have gone bust) we're doing the 3D matches at Eden Park....

The 3D matches were only going to be those played at Eden Park...... They had nothing to do with Sky TV

Mt Victoria

If I did a big sh!t on the footpath as people walked past it would "get the looks ".......... but for all the wrong reasons...............

Haha, fourth time lucky I see Ian! It was almost like you were trying to get it to spin

Yea, pretty much. We were using a new pad compound in the front (Performance Friction 01) but kept our rear pads as they were (Endless N35S). The rear pads are far too aggressive compared with the front...