JapTastic

Honestly at the moment if you want to track your car the best bet is the sprints held at QR. Wednesdays seem to be the best. Last time I was there, I doubt there would have even been 20 cars out there, so you could easily organize yourselves into a group. Kilcoy racetrack looks to be bloody fantastic, lots of elevation, very technical looking circuit, looks like a mix of the old Lakeside and Philip Island put together. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be ready until late 2007 at the very earliest.

Yes, the bottom one is a TA/AA63 Carina and is probably the only one worth caring about. The earlier ones again don't look too bad either. Nice find on the late model one, it almost looks like a VX commie with that rear end.

Yes, because stretched tyres are all to do with drift cars right? Oh..wait..nm.

Its dropping down to 14psi by redline simply because it simply can't flow that much. Above 14psi out of those turbos just results in pumping in a lot more hot air. For that reason 19psi is excessive. Sweet bugger all as far as aftermarket goes, the engines were Jap/Euro only, so I hope you're happy with fabrication. The turbo isn't a T3 flange, its a toyota flange which shares itself with..nothing. However, if you'd be looking at a custom exhaust manifold anyway with the power you are after. The big hp TA22 I think you're talking about would have been SIKTOY, can't remember the owners name. It made the power a few times, running a very extensively worked head, complete internals, big to4 with a 60-1 front cover. He also went through quite a few motors. I can't say I agreed with a lot of his setup, but whatever it worked, albeilt for a short time. The main issues with the motor, is the factory ecu, the factory turbo, and well thats about it. Internals..I dare say be at the point where you'd want to replace the pistons at 350hp.

I ended up being busy most of the day, but as I had to go down the coast later on, I stopped by Hinze Dam anyway. Didn't get there till 3, lol, so everyone was goooone. :rocknroll: From the photos looked like a great day, I'll get to the next meet on time :P

Yeh my 3tgte Celica ran at 15psi no problems at all. It would usually back off to 13psi by 7000rpm though. The power started to fall on its nose a fair bit before then too. CT20 is a fairly sizable unit compared to the t25/t28, but I really don't think the flow is there, which is why I've upgraded to the CT15b. Regarding midrange, possibly ignition timing. They just run a dirty old electronic dizzy so they're a little lacking compared to newer motors in that regard.

Considered those Koenig Rewind things? They're knock offs of Watanabe, and probably heavy as elad, but they come in 7's or 8's, and have a nice dishy offset. The price isn't bad either.

CT20's are off the 3tgte. They're old, and being toyotas first turbo for production car, not that great. Slow to spool, and not that much flow. Honestly I think you'd be better off with a later designed turbo. The T25 which Nick is using would fit the bill nicely.

Unfortunately the only company I can see Toyota buying up at the moment might be Kelvinator or Westinghouse. It seems they've long lost the drive to make exciting vehicles and are content to churn out the automotive equivilant of whitegoods. It does seem to be working for them financially though.

What? No. The techniques he used had nothing to do with corner speed. All he did was use unothordox methods to place his car for overtaking and defending lines. It worked sometimes, it was also a bonus that he was racing in the days of mainly mechanical grip and limited aero. Heres a clip of his "drift" style overtake at Fuji racway in a GroupA RS500 Sierra. http://www.japtastic.com/video/KTgpA.wmv As an added note his style caused for early mechanical failure, particularly when he went to JGTC. You'll see many more examples of this style of overtaking technique, Piquet did it at a good 100kays faster in the '86 F1 championship. The good old days when the cars weren't so reliant on aero.

There'd be a few people that make that sort of flare. Almost the entire IPRA field has them.

My crappy photos are up, theres a couple of wintersun pics in there too sorry. http://www.japtastic.com/atd2005/ Cool day, the corollas and sprinters were out in force this year, didn't seem to be as much of the old stuff. I had nothing ready, so ended up parking the rotor outside :(( Strip DIR link here - much easier to view

Nice job, the car looks great.

Yep, still in for a skidpan day. No idea what car I'll take but it'll have bells on.

Its simple. They make more power in an upright position becuase gravity helps the pistons fall back down quicker.

Yeh, I'd say a van would be fine. The aforementioned Paul showing proper delivery driver technique in an urvan. I'm fairly sure it was diesel as well. I've got to find out if we can go to this, we're going to find snow sometime in june/july but unsure of the exact date. I'll try and workit out soon, don't want to miss out :/ PS: can't have too many SkidVan photos.... All it needs is some cell shading, some scattered Kanji, and you've got a new anime series.

Well at least they've meade it easy to change the sparkplugs. Silly fallen in half motors.

Bidding on YA is a pain in the arse, all the bids happen in the last 30mins, and theres a sort of rolling timer, so it'll get down to 2mins to go, and flick back up to 15 or 10mins, starting the sniping war again. That usually happens about three times or so. The ones with the "buy now" price are easy, but often overpriced. That said, you can get some decent buys off there now and then.

I understand the merits of buying an already setup rally/circuit car. All the hard work is done for you. However, on a rally car, I'd assumed the shell as such would have been a consumable item over time. I remember some rotary rally driver on another forum saying such. The shells get "floppy" over time spent bouncing and careering through the bush. If ones looking at an ex-rally car, is there things people should look for? Do logbooks show racing incidents or are they're merely a "this car competed here, DNF'd there". How many competitions or seasons is the usual 70's/80's era rally car looking at, before you' have to consider re-sheling as part of your purchase cost.

Standard ECU isn't much chop anyway. Besides you only need a fuel only computer to run them. They're getting on a bit now, and I think contemplating a rebuild sooner rather than later for one would be wise.

Count myself and my gf in.

Sillbeer Thornback Tea machine-translates to Sil80. Wacky. Online translators are frustrating and amusing at the same time.

How much were the 6.5 and 8's to buy locally? The 9 at 55k is a good deal, though still waaaay out of my price range :dance: Nick: Subapoo still like to hang their motors past the front axle line, which isn't the brightest of ideas either.

Agreed, thanks for the pics Fook. The starlet has odd looking wheels, they're like a watanabe but only 6 spoke. Not sure if I like them or not.

Sounds like the same metal RX3's and most fiats/alfas are made from.....