Nz Style in Australia

[slpery86]

track day update!

managed to get everything done ahead of time, my mate badger (who has a 462whp fd3s) came up and towed the trailer so i didnt have to hire a ute. decided to let him have a drive since hes never been behind the wheel of an AE86 before, and also cos his batty hasnt been going for ages and i know what its like to wanna drift and not be able to, plus he helped me out with somewhere to stay when i got here..





overcame the getting stuck on trailer by jack knifing it into my driveway and taking the bumper off

all loaded up



i love riverside

stopped on the way to put half a tank of gas in, rather than filling it right up badger said hed bring petrol cans to keep the weight down, also checked the tyre pressure all round, done, ready to roll



arrived and signed in and got on track. since it had been a month it took a few laps to get back into it, took two go-pros along so got some better footage, but like last time they had both ran out of battery before the end of the day

heres a couple runs from early on, was told i had to do statics off the line, thats the standard apparently!

same run from the outside

but fuck that, need as much speed as i can possibly get before the corner so stopped

getting there!

bit of in car, sun kinda blocks the view

let badger have a play, he fuckin loved it.. took him a while to get used to it, he said its like nothing hed driven before.. he kept going too slow so when he went out for a second go i said he had to keep his foot flat the whole time, he got used to the car after a while and started getting some good slides happening..

then i took one of my mates gfs out

which was the last run before the go-pro ran out of power which is a bit of a shame! in the last half hour there was only about 5 cars left on the track so they didnt make me stop on the front straight.. when i went from a stop i could only get to 110 before the first corner but cos i could keep going i was entering the first corner at over 150, i even clutched it left before bringing it back right once, was fuckin awesome

i was coming down the straight and the marshalls waved for me to stop, he goes “last lap, make it count!”, so i launched the car hard and it started spluttering, then there was a loud screeching sound so i pulled over and had a look, the bolt holding the altinator to the bracket had come out so i turned it off and pushed it back into the pits. such an awesome day although i did have a few too many passengers, only got about 15 minutes in the car by myself but it was still a lot of fun, managed to get through 4 tyres where as last time I only got through one, must be getting better, haha

loaded the car back on using qrs loading dock



prolly gonna go out again to the next one on the 29th, not 100% sure tho

fuck it who am i kidding, im gonna call tomorrow and book, will just take some managing of time and dates, got a bit of stuff to do around that time..

one of the photographers said he got heaps of photos of my car, so i flicked him some cash and hes posting me a cd, will chuck em up when i get it

riversides



casa



got home today, put a bolt back in the bracket, put tension on the belt and tightened it, started it up, sweet, took it up the road, sweet.. its got some pull this car! especially being alone in it, goes well

also sold the 15" formula mesh tonight, "daily" car prolly going next weekend too