Joe's NA6

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:28 pm

Well that was an interesting thing to discover. Went to empty the radiator and less coolant than expected came out. Had a quick poke around and discovered a crack in the bottom radiator hose. Not a brilliant thing to discover but at least it's an easy fix. I even had a spare hose sitting in the track bag so all was well.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:13 pm

Replaced the plug leads last week after noticing that two of them were in more pieces than they should have been.

Entered the NSW club training day at Marulan in March and have even decided to drag dad along too. It's his birthday that weekend so I figured a day on track in my car would be a suitable present.

Will need to check the front brakes soon to see if my uneven pad wear issue was sorted after the last clean out otherwise a full rebuild might in order.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:42 pm

Uneven pad wear was fixed when I last regreased them! Huzzah!

The club day at Marulan was good fun as always. Had two laps at an identical 46.97 but both were quite different laps. The first lap peaked higher going down the hill but had a worse last corner. This obviously tells me that there's some time still left in it

CoffeeBoss · Postby **CoffeeBoss** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:11 pm

Jeo wrote:Uneven pad wear was fixed when I last regreased them! Huzzah!

The club day at Marulan was good fun as always. Had two laps at an identical 46.97 but both were quite different laps. The first lap peaked higher going down the hill but had a worse last corner. This obviously tells me that there's some time still left in it

Very decent going around Marulan!

I love it there, so suited to light, nimble cars.

So glad they have timing there now as well.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:22 pm

Not sure if they do but the club day sure didn't. I'm basing my times off RaceChrono and an external GPS receiver.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:08 pm

Solid day at the MG Motorkhana yesterday. Pretty sure I took out the hotly contested (all-be-it slightly made up) "fastest convertible" class, might have even pipped fastest RWD if I was overly lucky.

Pics to come later.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:19 pm

Results are in.

Third outright, first in class B

Also first in the made up fastest RWD class, being behind a Clio and a GT-R in outright standings. Apparently I really stuffed up the fourth test as I ended up about 15th for that one, which ultimately cost me second place. Still, can't complain too loudly!

PeterB · Postby **PeterB** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:22 pm

Great result. Can you please send me a copy of the full results - petbro@grapevine.com.au thanks

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:34 pm

Done and done.

Also photo courtesy of Eiji

Postby **NitroDann** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:41 pm

Awesome to see joe, Love seeing cars dríven not polished .

EDIT:

i know my standards of a clean car are low so to explain properly, I think jeos car is very clean and i appreciate that he actually flogs the piss out of it.

Dann

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:11 pm

It's not clean any more Dann. Hasn't been for a while and probably won't be ever again.

Feb 08

July 09

April 12

Still happy though (provided I don't think too hard about it).

Postby **NitroDann** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:18 pm

Well now its all out in the open i can say I really like it how it is.

It aint what my car is, and even worse, when people come up and see it in person they laugh that its far worse in real life haha.

I do like a car that looks like a tool, a piece of machinery, it gets cleaned and maintained enough to keep it going, and then its treated like a tool for fun. For enjoyment.

perfect.

10/10 Joe.

Dann

trader · Postby **trader** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:29 pm

Dirty or clean...still a mean machine!

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Sat May 18, 2013 5:22 pm

Thanks guys

After noticing that the alternator belt was a little worse for wear at the last motorkhana, I went a grabbed a replacement that week (5-6 weeks ago now..). Given that there's another khana on next weekend, guess what I finally got around to doing today!

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:31 pm

Another khana last weekend in stupidly cold conditions. It was only ~0 degrees when we turned up for scrutineering at 8, but didn't hit 5 until almost 1pm. At least that's my excuse for the beanie and hood combination.