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Post by barracuda on Dec 13, 2004 16:16:52 GMT 12
Ok, the last one is behind us. Hopefully most of us are grown-ups and can put the niggles from the last meeting behind us! I have word that Mark Thomas www.mtracing.co.nzwill be apearing at the December meeting, anyone else going to show up? Any gossip from Champions meeting last weekend? |
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Post by kwkbrk on Dec 13, 2004 17:43:29 GMT 12
Graham and Robyn Carter are bringing their evil Jag down, the monster that did the 10 foot wheelstand last year. (Wildcat Racing).
Robyn works for one of our major customers, speak to her quite regularly, so she keeps me up to date with whats happening, apart from the feature in Petrolhead last month.
Its going pretty well apparently, did an 8.6 not so long ago I believe ....
Cheers Mike
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Post by avgas on Dec 14, 2004 5:32:29 GMT 12
I'll be there and I might even give the ballast bottle a tryout  some people know what Im on about. Rumours and gossip from last weekend, yip I heard that the hellRaiser car, blew its own doors off with excess pressure build up in the cabin, that on deployment of the chutes, which promptly pulled the bracket off the car, it then cooked up the brakes, airborne at some stage and hello gorse and bank, and that it now has a broken/bent input shaft on the lenco not exactly what you want happneing at meremere, wouldn't be so bad if that happened at MMP, atleast youve still got 3/4 of a mile to get everything under control in a chute failure or similar. sort of glad now that they caned the orginal Foxton site, when you look at length issues, of braking area etc, like that when you have a big failure on a high HP car. |
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Post by barracuda on Dec 14, 2004 16:38:45 GMT 12
And that was the exact reason the site was dumped.
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Post by nos on Dec 14, 2004 19:44:13 GMT 12
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Post by barracuda on Dec 15, 2004 16:02:36 GMT 12
Hi NOS, what happened to you guys at the test and tune, you have some problems?
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Post by nos on Dec 18, 2004 16:27:37 GMT 12
Yeah had a few probs. Knocked the bottom off a roller lifter but it is all back together and running low 9's with no bottle. See you at Masterton!!!!!!!!
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Post by burnoutman on Dec 20, 2004 20:03:01 GMT 12
Hi all, Im coming down, should have my wheelie bars on in time! COUSE ya can win races with 3 feet of air under the front end and still going up!
{Dame good fun though!}
Hope to really hit the nos now at the start.
Hope to run low 9s with any luck!
Chrome illusion bucket
AKA; Loose unit drag racing.
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Post by burnoutman on Dec 20, 2004 20:09:55 GMT 12
Gidday all, Do any of you have trouble with your tyres slipping on your rims, Im thinking of rim screws but don't like the idea of drilling brand new rims!
Any ideas?
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Post by barracuda on Dec 21, 2004 6:29:47 GMT 12
Might pay to get a couple of race only rims to drill if youre worried about the new ones, as I'm pretty sure thats what you have to do to eliminate slip, and I dont know of any other quick fixes off the top of my head. Hopefully someone else can shed some more light. Maybee santa will drop a spare set off  Justin |
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Post by avgas on Dec 21, 2004 6:50:43 GMT 12
Jason, youve confirmed theyre spinning the tyre on the rim ?? use a vivid marker and draw a little line on the rim and tyre, if they move out of allignment, yip your spinning the rim in the tyre.
Fraid to say electric drill, holes and screws is about the only way to solve it. You could maybe try some glueon the bead, but that would be abit rough and make it rather hard to break the bead come tyre change or similar.
Looks like were going to have some fun maybe close racing this season. I too an fixing wheelie bars at presnt, did a measure up, they have to much freeplay and not enough adjustmetn or triangluation by the time all the slops taken up out back,the front is 3ft, want to try and limit that to a foot max.
Fingers crossed for the weather, it certainly sucksarse at the moment.
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Post by nos on Dec 21, 2004 10:23:11 GMT 12
Hey Jason,
If you are going to the expense of buying a set of race rims to screw then why don't you buy a set of some with bead locks? Presuming your budget will stretch that far!!! Ours are drilled and screwed but now we have the problem of them still slipping and trying their best to snap the screws!!! Ah well such is life!!! ;D
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Post by avgas on Dec 21, 2004 17:11:31 GMT 12
I could be wrong, but i think the rims are well and truely here, arent they jason, theyre the pair I brought over for you, right  |
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Post by barracuda on Dec 23, 2004 6:29:53 GMT 12
Gate entry for this meeting is $15, just so you all know.
Spectators pay for both days, racers pay one gate entry only.
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Post by nos on Dec 23, 2004 15:18:18 GMT 12
Do we have to bring our own rocks to hurl at the officials or will you be providing them at the gate??? ;D
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some people know what Im on about.
