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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby OurCognitiveSurplus » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:44 am

What sort of clutch did you end up getting? What's the light flywheel like in traffic?
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Sun May 20, 2012 9:49 pm

Fun day out at the MGCCC MotorKhana today. Mostly happy with my times from what I'd gleamed from other people, will have to wait for final results to know for sure though.

Only picture I have so far but videos are uploading now.
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In general though, more people need to do motorkhanas. Every time I do one I fall in love again.

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Mon May 21, 2012 12:49 am

Video!


Bonus points to anyone who guesses the car you can hear.


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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Smokinscotty » Mon May 21, 2012 1:13 am

Nice and neat! Well dríven.
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Thu May 24, 2012 7:47 pm

Results are in!

4th outright, 2nd in class and fastest MX5. Pretty happy with that :)

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Smokinscotty » Thu May 24, 2012 8:18 pm

Great result!

What was that thing in the background? Sounded very cosworth-y
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Thu May 24, 2012 8:59 pm

Neil Bates prepped Altezza normally run by the family itself. Former Targa Tasmania car.

They've run it for quite some time now but it sounded significantly angrier than usual this weekend.

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Smokinscotty » Thu May 24, 2012 9:13 pm

Nice! Sounded great!
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:17 am

Club day at Wakefield on the 4th.

My housemate joined us for the day before discovering that his car was leaking oil, so I decided to double enter mine. I haven't ever done that before, so that was interesting. Practically no down time throughout the day and you use a lot more fuel.

The forecast had me expecting showers but luckily the day stayed cool and dry. I was really happy with how the car seemed right from the first session and apparently rightly so as I managed to equal my PB on the last lap. Next session then saw me drop half a second down to 1:14.9, then down to 1:14.2 in the third. Very happy obviously.

I had one run after lunch and as soon as I came off the track I knew something was wrong. Sounded just like a worn out brake pad but I figured that couldn't have been the case as these pads had only done the natmeet track day and a motorkhana. Unfortunately, when I've pulled the front right apart, this is what I was greeted with.

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The outer edge of the outer pad was completely gone. Understandably that was the end of the day for both of us, so we packed up and headed home.


All in all though, was still a good day. Well into the 14's was significantly better than what I was aiming for and the people around were as awesome as they always are. Bryan let me borrow his PerformanceBox for the fourth session which was good fun. He's given me the data which I'm part way through. It's amazing how much it shows you.

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:20 am

New pads + 6 point harness have arrived.

Ok, so they actually arrived last Thursday but I'm well sick and haven't had the chance to touch them yet.

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby TonyMax » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:26 am

We both have CAMS licences as of this week, you may see us at a motorkhana some time later in the year :).
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Hjt » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:26 pm

Hey mate if your keen on a pre club day shoot out, myself and Mitch are heading down for Circuit Club on the 28th of July, your more than welcome to tag along!

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:02 pm

Nope to both sorry.

On the plus side though, car is washed and fueled ahead of a trip up to Sydney on Saturday. Should be a good day.

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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Jeo » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:50 pm

Cheers Mitch.
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Re: Joe's NA6

Postby Hjt » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:54 pm

Drag all your jdmst images across!


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