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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
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May 2002
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sydney
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November 2003
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival
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Fri, 30 July 2004 14:33
 
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sounds interesting :)
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Official Cruise Dude
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liverpool
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March 2004
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival
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Sun, 01 August 2004 00:27
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Sweet - I missed this one last year (I think due to weather) so will try and make it along 
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival
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Sun, 01 August 2004 00:46
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I might be entering this year, i will know by wednesday if i can get the budget and resources to run.. Im sure Johnny will be entering in his Corolla.
Ben.
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival
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Sun, 01 August 2004 02:07
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mmm Anyone got dirt tyres for a cressida 
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Location:
ghetto area 2745
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November 2003
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Sun, 01 August 2004 09:06
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ae86trueno
let me know if you need a hand or anything i can help with or loan u
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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July 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Mon, 02 August 2004 07:03
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DOH!!!! i think im sposed to go skiing that day 
Can someone take LOTS of movies????
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Mon, 02 August 2004 10:57
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| THE WITZL wrote on Mon, 02 August 2004 17:03 |
DOH!!!! i think im sposed to go skiing that day
Can someone take LOTS of movies????
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If you ask nicely  (turns out my folks bought a digital video camera while I was on holidays, so there's a possibility of me taking it along I suppose  )
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Fri, 06 August 2004 02:27
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Steve - On the topic of the event, are you going to be up at Wyong the following day?
I may be sitting in on a road closure on the Saturday.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Fri, 06 August 2004 07:58
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| wagonist wrote on Fri, 06 August 2004 12:39 |
Lucid, have you got any maps of that area? They've changed pretty much all the stages from last year & I'd like to know where I am.
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Nope, sorry mate. I just go where I'm taken and snap photos all day long.
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Toymods Vice President
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Fri, 06 August 2004 12:08
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That sounds aweaome Steve.
Let us know any details you can. I think this would be a great night out for the Toymods crowd.
When things are a little clearer we'll organise a meeting place and cruise out there as a club and have a great night supporting Toyota Team Racing. Even if they are driving Corolla's, they've still got 3S-GTE's in them.
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Location:
Brisbane
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June 2003
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Fri, 06 August 2004 12:09
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i wouldnt be allowed to compete would i? 
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Tue, 10 August 2004 05:47
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Not unless your car is homologated to group N rules, which means pretty standard, you've got a large amount of money for the entry fee, plus you are going to compete in the Aust Rally Championship.
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Club President
I supported Toymods
Location:
Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Thu, 12 August 2004 01:47
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This sounds like a great idea. Count me in 
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney
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Wed, 18 August 2004 02:44
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Still trying to find out more info about the Toyota festival.
some more details about the Eastern Ck stages on Fri night.
There will be 4 stages run.
Stage 1 & 4: tarmac
Stage 2: gravel (called Chicane so expect some tight & twisties)
Stage 3: gravel (called Dipper so expect some air)
With 4 stages being run after each other, there could be upto 10 cars running simultaneously throughout the Eastern Ck complex.
The tarmac one is good to watch to see the difference between how the V8's & rally cars take a corner.
Last year they started on the skid pan & then did 75% of the track in the reverse direction.
This has been changed for this year so I don't where it will be... yet.
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Membership Secretary
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Sydney
Registered:
June 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Fri, 20 August 2004 04:54
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I will be going. If anyone is going call me and we'll catch up
Stitt
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Sat, 21 August 2004 09:31
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Im sure Johnny will be entering in his Corolla
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Good guess Ben as you are right...
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Sun, 22 August 2004 23:37
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Do you know what number you are?
Post it up when you do so we can make sure you've got a cheer squad.
Also I'm Assist Stage Commander on a couple of stages, see if we can doctor your time
I've got a rally meeting tomorrow night, so I'll try to get more info about the Toyota Festival & post it up.
BTW, anyone in Gosford area got a spare bed I could crash in on Sat night? I doubt fancy a long drive for my 5:30am Sunday morning meet & don't particularly want to sleep in the back of the ute.
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Location:
Sutherland Shire
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April 2003
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Mon, 23 August 2004 10:48
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What time does this all kick off on friday night? Definately interested in having a look at eastern creek. thanks
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Mon, 23 August 2004 11:26
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Damn shame that I've got to work until 5 o'clock. Looks like there's going to be some interesting stuff going on all day! 
I'll definitely be making it down, although will no doubt be a bit late.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Wed, 25 August 2004 03:34
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I have some more info.
Tomorrow I'll have a pic of the 4 stages plnned for Friday night.
Should be some great action.
All 3 TTR Toyotas are entered & apparently have been showing some good results during testing.
Stay tuned...
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 01:12
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I have some pix of the event (very limited though because I was busy most of the time)
Friday night, Eastern Ck, start of Special Stage 4 (skid pan, track)
Leanne Ferrier's car for the GTP:
ST205 owners will love this one:
Results: (same placings for both Saturday & Sunday heats)
1st Atkinson/Atkinson (Subaru)
2nd Kangas/Rabbett (Mitsubishi)
3rd Evans/Evans (Toyota)
All 3 Corollas finishing in the top 6.
Overall Standings in the Championship are:
Crocker 132 points
Atkinson 126 Points
Kangas 124 points
Evans 111 points
Bates/Herridge 90 points
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 10:53
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All 3 Corollas finishing in the top 6.
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And us poor AE102 drivers Won Class N3 and P3
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 11:14
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What car were you in?
I noticed 2 Corolla down in the field, one with a Toymods sticker on the rear bumper.
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Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 11:35
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The one with the toymods sticker was us... and yes I did have a shocker at the creek!!  but we made up for it up the coast... heres a couple of my favorite pic's from the weekend
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 11:43
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Nice shots.
I was the starter on SS1 & 4.
Was also at the Stop point on SS6 & SS9 (that's where I 1st noticed the Toymods sticker) apparently another guy with us knew you or your co driver there.
Then was start timer on SS12 & SS15.
Did you happen to have a chance to see Ordynski's car?
And what brakes are you running? They certainly don't look stock AE102.
Congrats on the result.
I'm going to have to resist the temptation of slipping into Channel 10 mode & only concentrating on the 1st 10 cars. 
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 12:29
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Was also at the Stop point on SS6 & SS9 (that's where I 1st noticed the Toymods sticker) apparently another guy with us knew you or your co driver there.
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That would of been Phil Whitaker, he's our mag editor of the other club I'm in... Was that when I stopped and had a big chat?
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And what brakes are you running? They certainly don't look stock AE102.
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Front: Landcruiser Disc with custom hats and 300ZX TT 4 spot Cailpers EBC Greenstuff pads
Rear: AE102 Front Disc machined off and then fitted with the custom hats, 300ZX 2 spot calipers.
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 23:05
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it wasnt you John getting hassled by those pesky coppers in heat 1 was it, i noticed the
56 John Kypreos Nicholas Forester
P3 Toyota Corolla
TC07A Out of late time
in the retirements section..
Ben.
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I supported Toymods
Toymods Club Secretary
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 23:16
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Love the second of those two photos Johnny!! A nice little bit of air under the tyres there
I also got video footage at the Eastern Creek skidpan stage on Friday night which I'll post up online once I work out how to compress it a bit.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 23:20
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Yep, that's where you stopped.
If I'd known it was you, I would've had a chat too.
I only noticed the Toymods sticker when you drove off from there.
How do the calipers fit? Any custom brackets involved?
Or is the whole suspension "custom"
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 23:41
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Nope, we developed cracks in the Front strut tops again, So we decided swap over to some DMS I bought, that had standand tops on them. This was a percaution Before I got enother large bill for shock repairs... Well every went in OK, well it took 25min and we had 20min service, but when we dropped it on the deck  the front sat 4" higher than the REAR! So out it came again, reset the heights, then came to putting it back in... well my side went ok, the other side, the BLOODY CV pop out!! that took another 30min to fix and get the strut back in, then we had to driver through the service park, and of course, we were stuck at the furthers point from T/C, that took another 5min through the random Sheep that were looking at the top teams, and of course, they wouldn't move even with the service crew screaming at them... that was some funny stuff.... Then we finally made it to t/c......  2min, JUST 2MIN too late!! But to top it off, I questioned H/Q and a few officals as to how much time was in the last service, all replied 'read your road book', which stated 20min.... We later found out that in the sup regs and in a bullitin give at the final service T/C, it was 2Hrs!! I could of waitted til then, by nursing the car through another 3 stages and had 2Hrs and 40min to worry about it at the end, Not Half way through... That's when I gave it to H/Q and a few others...
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Wed, 01 September 2004 23:46
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I don't blame you for giving it to them.
Did you manage to get any time back?
I'm thinking about having a work to the organising people.
I still know what I was properly doing until 2 days before the event, & then it got changed on both days (didn't help I arrived late to both days meet points  )
I've been to 3 other rallies this year (Canberra, Qld, SA) & I knew exactly what I'd be doing for those even before I'd left Sydney (which was 2 weeks before the event in Adelaide).
They were much better organised & planned.
I could understand this for a club or State round, but this is the ARC.
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Location:
Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Thu, 02 September 2004 00:17
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How do the calipers fit? Any custom brackets involved?
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Cut and weld job on the front, the rear was is a simple plate and some offset spacers
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I don't blame you for giving it to them.
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Should of been in the scuiteering shed... a Traineer was telling me, a grade 3 (me) , the rules!? (homologation of my cage) I stuck it up him and the line chief...both waving their officals lic. So I did the same! Then the Head scruit came over and offer me a go next year, because he was sick of the non-machincally minded, 'have No idea of rules and regs' people he had to work with... that's why they were over 2hrs behind, they had to keep checking the Manual.... We had Sullen and Trinder in laughing fits by the end, as I would just quote the rule they were trying to hammering me for in whole... the problem there was they keep saying only the first sentence, not the whole clause as I was yelling at them....
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Did you manage to get any time back?
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No, The CRO was about to wave us through, as long we got her a beer, But the tight arse T/C controller killed that... "i'll get in trouble".. he needed to squeeze a few of those zit on his head.
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I could understand this for a club or State round, but this is the ARC.
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Every Club and state round I have ever done, made this event organisation look like amatures... and considering it's the same team that does Bega and Batemans(Top Class), It's was appauling....
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I also got video footage at the Eastern Creek skidpan stage on Friday night which I'll post up online once I work out how to compress it a bit.
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Pls do... I wanna see How much I stuffed it... My Co-driver and I had a chat with Neal Bates over our (illegal- We didn't know!) tyre selection on the skid Pan....
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Thu, 02 September 2004 04:08
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Why, what tyres were you running?
I didn't have any time to check.
That 1 minute gap on the tarmac stage was a killer.
We weren't allowed to have 2 cars on the skidpan at once, which meant that at 1 point, the Fiat at the back of the field after 2 spins, only got of it at 57s.
I was about to jump in front of the next car to stop him.
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Sydney, OZ
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May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Thu, 02 September 2004 04:47
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Why, what tyres were you running?
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In the supp regs, there was a stupid one liner stating that 'similar' tyres were to be used on ss1&4 (skid pan) as what were to be used on ss2&3 (Gravel) ie Gravel tyres had to be use or Tarmac had to be used. We used Azenis real sport 16" for the pan and Silverstone SS525(Rally tyre) 15" on the dirt, By no means are they similar, besides being round and black as my co-driver pointed out, Someone did put a protest in, to the tune of $500, but nothing was acted upon obviously too much money... but really why weren't we allowed? I think that that was a rule of stupidity becuase my second question would of been why have a tyre change? I couldn't figure that out at all... someone needed a bullet when they wrote that.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Toyota Rally Festival: Sydney. Start Eastern Ck, Friday 27th August
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Thu, 02 September 2004 05:30
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I think tarmac tyres have been banned from the ARC.
When was the tyre change?
I think that may have also been to reduce the chance of getting dirt on the track.
The Eastern Ck people are a bit picky about that.
I wonder how they cleaned up the tyre marks from the V8 Commodores on the concrete.
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