Thanks for the compliments guys. I actually have those pictures just like that (vertical) in a frame above my pc just to remind me why I've been spending such time and money on this car. [
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Paul is right, this is hard in 3rd gear. That is at our best circuit in Sydney (Eastern Creek) and that was a day before I got on the plane to the UK last Sept. That is a big V8 Holden in that picture and also at the track on that day was a DB9 which was amazingly nimble through the corners, a few 996's, a recent Ferrari of some description, and various V8's. To be fair a lot of these guys were just doing a mid week drive day and possibly hadn't even been on a track before or very often so I had a distinct advantage, however no car came close on that day except for a race modified black Lotus and we had a great dice for 3 laps until the (overzealous) flag marshall at the end of the main straight 'Leapt' out at me with the black flag while I was just starting to slow down at the end of the main straight (230kms) into a long, very fast left hander. Well I took my eye off the ball and went into a long fast spin into the grass and luckily didn't hurt anything. I got flagged for some smoke which at that point (build no 2) we had a lot of blow by.
Anyway the car wasn't set up properly that day with neg camber and that still had the stock head and cam so there is a lot more to come out of the car yet. As Paul mentions though, the handling is exemplified in those shots. I love the 3rd one as I know just how much load is on the car at that point and it looks like I'm so flat through there. The best part that day was following the Aston and his mate in a 996 who were dicing around and not waving me through and coming up behind them onto the last corner before the quite long straight and just roaring past them off into the distance. [
] Take your multi thousand dollar cars and stick that up your...nice weather isn't it lads. [
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Ben you too can have this handling. I know you have the KW's on the list. Add to that lowering the car, Racers Edge and Elephant race solid suspension bushings, M-sport 80% LSD, S2 cwp, plus 255/285 Toyo R888's don't hurt either. You are going to need to do some mods in that dept. with all that power you now have under your right foot.[
] Don't think you've stopped spending yet my friend.[
]. The wheels are an Australian brand called Simmons. They're real old school with the emphasis on strength and durability rather than bling although the 5 spoke always looks the best pattern on our cars IMHO.
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