VN S1 Production Saloon

[immortality]

sounds like it's going well, just don't tell anybody at the track what a delcowizzid is

[delcowizzid]

haha now thats a big sticker LOL love it

[VNracer34G]

sounds like it's going well, just don't tell anybody at the track what a delcowizzid is

Yeah mate got it going hard at seasons end and .............. too late i've already explained to those that have asked EXACTLY what a delcowizzid is and it was noticed bigtime.

[immortality]

ohhh well, as long as the scrutineers don't know all is well

[VNracer34G]

haha now thats a big sticker LOL love it

mate with my warchest this season what with a wedding and a roadtrip to Welly for AC/DC that aint a sticker, i painted it with what i had lying around. I did the small one on the 'c' pillar first, masked off the black outline on the red background and blew it with quick dry enamel from a rattle can then did the white surround by hand from the bottom of my mixing jar for the white on the car. On the visor i did the same masking off the black and killed the rest of the rattle can then used a cut down sponge brush dipped in the bottom of the red jar - bloody tightarse eh.

[VNracer34G]

hey mister stock chip in a stock computor :-)

[delcowizzid]

hahaha stock code with tweaks if they really bothered by it

[VNracer34G]

Hey all, no updates for a while due to the car being practically buried under shed junk while i've been doing other stuff. A pair of V6 heads for a stockcar have been ported and now another pair is progressing nicely for delcowizzid, then theres a wee A12 datsun motor for a ministock to pull finger and rebuild, meantime i had to rewire my car trailer no thanks to our black labrador pup.

The dates for the new upcoming season are posted here Gisborne Speedway Club Inc » Calander so best i get off my lazy arse and do something!!!

[VNracer34G]

and i still really want to get my hands on headers. i've seen them on a couple of VP utes and on a VR SV6 that the owners would'nt part with, not too fussed on the y-pipe as exhaust is free from the first flange and if time allows i want to make myself a termination box for a new system.

[VNracer34G]

Got held up on other jobs last weekend so i pulled off/out all the crap that had accumulated on/in 34G over the last six months hit the starter and drove it out to the carport where the girls gave me a hand washing it, i jacked it up and waterblasted the remains of last season off. Chucked it on the trailer and went down to the weighbridge for greensheeting - she flew through apart from me forgetting my helmet for checking head clearance and take my wheels off to get the rims stamped for the season. Which would be able to be signed off at the track pre practice

[delcowizzid]

got it dirty again yet

[VNracer34G]

Friday night i set up a strut with a disc on it in my bench vice and checked all my rims for true - only had to swap out one and flip over a couple of tyres saturday morning so all good.

Got the car all signed off in good time at the track and made my decision on tyre choice with the slim pickings i have for now and set pressures thinking i was pretty close to the tight setup i had most of last season, first time out on a greasy track confirmed it. Changed to my next smaller 205/65 and put another couple of pounds in the right front for the loss in cross weight and made sure i got myself lined up first on the dummy grid again, no set order and only four Productions out for first practice anyway. Had to be carefull down the back straight as there was a damp patch across 2/3 down that let the back tyres light up just as your getting some real speed on and i nudged the rev limiter a time or two, through the corners it was pointing real well but a bit too tailhappy and i found out the hard way last season this kind of setup is no good when the argy bargy starts. For my last run i left tyres alone and put a bit more cross in it with pressure adjustments and she bloody well flew, i bit untidy through the corners but the squidgey thing behind the steering wheel needs tuning and i was cautious picking up the throttle coming out of four wanting to stay off the wall .

Overall well pleased with how it went and it was a real buzz blowing off the cobwebs.

[VNracer34G]

got it dirty again yet

OOOHHHHHHH YYEEAAHHHHHH!!!

Hey mate can you remember what the rev limit is set at in the last tune you sent me? Man i wish i could datalog cos i reckon theres more to be had out of it and plug readings a joke by the time i've burbled off the track and back to my pit

[VNracer34G]

Last preseason practice yesterday.

Scored a new tyre for the right rear last week, same size 205/70r15 but a BFG touring T/A, same circumference as the Firestone destination h/t i have been using but 20mm wider footprint so i had high hopes. The track was pretty chopped up and we got sent out first as wheel packers/groomers so all was shit, second session - short story i stuck it in the wall bloody hard and i've got a heap to do before opening meeting of the season on friday night. Bent right side rims at least to replace as well as the planned virtual reskin, repaint and new numbers, have been hoping to do a new exhaust as well but thats not such a priority now.

this is what i did to the rear last night
battle scars from last season
'new' replacement panels lol

[TheGenesis]

Takes a bloody kiwi to have a speedo in a speedway car.

ahahahaa.

It's a sweet car man, very neat, for a racecar

[VNracer34G]

Had one hell of a week last week. Killed 24 cut off discs with the angle grinder, burnt a few holes in myself welding on my back and found a lot more damage than i was expecting once i had the old rear quarters cut off but i got it done just in time to head off to the track for the first race meeting of the season only to have it rain and got the message they pulled the pin as i was half way to the track

[VNracer34G]

Should have some signage sorted by Saturday in time for racing (hopefully) and i scored some new tyres which should be all grooved up by then too - i have a love hate relationship with my grooving gun, its a hard,hot,smelly,long and physical job but the results are often well worth it, at least grooving new tyres is easier than used hard as nails rubber and a hell of a lot less likely to cut into cords which blunts the blade real fast.

Chomping at the bit to get out on the track.

[VNracer34G]

'Groomed' some tyres after dinner this evening just before going out for a couple of drinks, clamped off the rear brakes, got the garden hose and wet the shed floor and with my right heel firmly on the brake i tickled it up between 3500-4000rpm in 1st and smoked it up for about 10-15 secs, jacked it and with the rattle gun swapped the rears for another two new tyres and repeated the process twice more, not enough to tear up the tyres just to remove the wee spikes and scuff up the surface a wee bit - the missus was horrified but i defiantly said "you won't let me do it in the driveway or carport so i bloody well did it in my shed" ahh that smell-----nectar to these nostrils, at the moment (lappy out in shed) i've got an old strut with a disc on it mounted in my bench vice that i use when grooving, gotta keep occupied - the nerves are starting to kick in.