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thealphabetsez posted:

I'm struggling to understand the smaller turbines on the side of the engine block, perchance can anyone shed some light?

nm posted:

I'm impressed he's gotten that past the DMV for so long (4 months)

BlackMK4 posted:

(take a second look at this, it's not what you think it is)

nm posted:

Look at the plates. Now imagine you're looking at it in a mirror.

ash with a five posted:

Fermunky posted:

Is it me, or are the Do Not Touch signs seem to have a finger missing from the hand?

BlackMK4 posted:

I've seen this guy around a few times and talked to him but I finally felt like taking a couple of phone pictures.





(lol my white E46 way back there)

To curb the 'RICE!' posts...
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/996-turbo-gt2/117969-very-custom-996-gt2-rsr.html


Basically, the car is loving insane.

Cat Terrist posted:

I do like time attack and I organise / Clerk of Course events. So lets get that out of the way as to where I stand on it.

However yes what you have supposed is 100% correct. Safety is NOT what you would expect from a car that could make a huge loving hole int he fence - the cages and secondry safety is simply not up to the levels that you think it should be. My 2004 spec FIA cage is better than the latest TT cars - some of the cages TT lets you get away with make me cringe.

The cars themselves are quite flimsy and do have failures - they are pushing the envelope and I do see suspension failures or engine grenades with regularity. An very good example is there's a car coming from Autotech in Australia (BTW who are assclowns with some truly obnoxious people) that has a 06 WRC shell with half the cage cut out. That can not be a good idea for a 550Kw car and yet it's in the rulebook, they are allowed to get away with safety gear that was deemed illegal 10 years ago.

I have been working on trying to get the higher spec cars to have appropriate cages and other safety gear, but as someone else pointed out, yes this is drag racing but with a circuit and these cars are pushing the boundaries and then some of the rule book and the spirit of time attack. I think there will be an engineering failure soon and someone will get hurt and that could have been prevented.

The way I think it should work is the lower classes get some freedoms due to still being road cars - and this is where TT works well, you can drive your road car to a day, have fun, go home so full cages are not good for a DD - but the unrestricted cars having to comply with at least FIA 2011 safety rules for sedans.

Cat Terrist posted:

Justification? I have no idea, apart sheer stupidity. But here's the REAL stupidity of it all - a WRC cage is pretty light and even acts as a deformation point. It's DESIGNED to gracefully fail. You take bits out, you lose the graceful bit. They have wasted utterly the hundreds of design hours to make that cage work at all, Lord help them if they roll over, what remains of the cage will break and become lethal. Bunch of assclowns.

sadnessboner posted:

There's a Barra 6cyl swapped AMC Javelin up for sale at this month's Shannon's Auction. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a turbocharged one.

Zenostein posted:

That poor Javelin.

a) What does Barra swapped mean and b) I had no idea AMCs made it over to Australia. Did they come in any sort of significant ideas, or is that a bit like swapping an Opel GT to run a 429 stateside?

sofullofhate posted:

Jim Simpson is an awesome AI dude. He has an amazing collection of Alfas, a couple of other beauties (concours winning Fiat? Two of the Nardi Blue Rays?) too.

My father (who is kind of AI awesome himself ) has a Miata with that body kit, a Ford V8 / 5-speed and Dayton knock-offs (I mean "use a hammer to take them off" not "they're fakes"). It's an absolute hoot to drive.


At the dyno facility. I road-tuned it (it's a bored / stroked Mustang engine with a Quarterhorse ECU piggyback board) the day before.


Strapped in. Note the plate (heh) and watercut aluminum logo (my sister designed it!). MTM = Mel's Torque Monster. Yes, it actually displaces 5.8L after the bore / stroke.


I'ma let this speak for itself. I suspect that there's something wrong with this dyno, but it pulled strong and consistently so 6 times. I was mostly concerned about the AFR which we tweaked a bit in between pulls.


A bad picture of my father and the car. He daily drives it until it starts to snow.

So yeah. That body kit and Jim Simpson are both pretty awesome and AI in my humble.

Crustashio posted:

General_Failure posted:

nice. Also eat me sushi

VikingSkull posted:

It could be a late 70's Elky, but the late 70's Ranchero was even bigger.

Zeether posted: