Wow! Two car related posts in a row!

Here's some in-car footage from the Grafton Hillclimb. It's a short, tight course about 3 hours south of the Gold Coast. They hold 4 or 5 of these each year. Heaps of fun! I set a new PB this trip, beating my old best time by about 5 seconds thanks to better tires and suspension.




Check out Motorsport Photography for heaps of great shots of the events (including me!)

Grafton Hillclimb

I attended the Grafton Sporting Car Club's hillclimb on the weekend for the first time. It was loads of fun, and the first time I had my car out on a track. I managed to get under 60 seconds which was my goal for the day but hope to be a lot closer to the Evo's next time. I headed down with some top blokes from EvoOz and made a weekend of it. I can't wait to go back with improved suspension and tires, I just need to develop the business case in order to get it past the Minister for Finance. I think I'll try the improved safety angle... You can see how tight and technical the track is below.

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This is a shot taken by Nigel from Unique Images. Thanks a lot Nigel!

I feature at around 2:30 and 7:00 in the below video - great camera work/commentary by 'Pres' from EvoOz.

Full dyno day results

Full results from the dyno day are now online: http://www.petrolmonkey.com/dyno-results.html

Dyno Day Result

I organised a second OZVR4 dyno day for today and it went very well. 19 Cars were there (17 8th gen and 2 6th gen). Shots from the day will hopefully end up in High Performance Imports (hpi.com.au). Here's my graph, I was 4th for day, which is pretty respectable seeing as I have no aftermarket fuel control like 1st, 2nd and 3rd do :)

New PB at Willowbank yesterday

I went out to Willowbank Raceway yesterday for some 1/4 mile fun. My best time was 13.791, about 1/2 a second quicker than last time thanks to a new exhaust, front mount intercooler and clutch.

I haven't found any video of my runs but here's some I took of the other VR-4s and Evos that were there. The last clip is of an R35 GT-R which ran an 11.3!