TNT Racing XR4x4 - Time Attack 2009

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:05 am

Haven't got the circuit driver guide, most try to get one.

Bart thinks the playstation is the track guide in a 800bhp Zonda

. He scares me.

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:11 am

I found GT4 very useful for getting to know the sequence of corners, but when you get on the track, it looks so different and you can quite easily get lost or confused about where you are. The first lap/s seem to go on for ever compared to GT4. This happened to me at Wipperman after the Karussel and was very scarey

Dont take GT4 lines in real life though ... it is very bumpy cutting across Adenau Forst :lol:

http://www.circuitguides.com/

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:13 am

The difference between driving the track in a 'normal' car and one of Gran Turismos hairy arsed sports cars is really disorientating. The flow between corners, linking them together, becomes so much harder when the speed is halved and the threat of financial penalties is so much more damaging.

Never seems so scary when it's only pixels

Have a great time and if you think of anything you need/want to ask, just give one of us a call :thumb:

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:29 am

got the rear spoiler on the car now and i think it looks well cool.

dunc thanks for the link to the track i shell be studeing it very closely

stu ill give you a call when on the ring and ask for directions as pablo will no doubt
get lost :rotflol:

im getting butterflies just thinking about going there god knows what ill be like when
im actually there plus the bullet cam from the splitter should be good for footage.

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:38 am

May have been mentioned before but go very careful with video equipment. The staff in the car park are actively looking for people that use video/photographic gear and can kick you off if you're caught. Stealth is the word mate :thumb:

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:56 am

Had the car checked over and a dyno run on saturday. I am very happy with the way things are going at the moment.

223 bhp
279 lb/ft Torque

New graph is in the dyno run section.

4 days till we leave for the ring 8)

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:44 am

Great figures guys - so excited for you

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:53 pm

After blowing the turbo on our car whilst at the nurburgring we needed to get it sorted quickly before ford fair this sunday at silverstone. The day after returning we took a trip to see Fitz at TopBoss.

It turns out that we hadn't blown the turbo we had melted the impellars and dropped the shaft

We believe the damage had been caused when we had all our overheating problems.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:21 pm

Sorry Stu couldn't stop him. Bart has ripped you and some of the skyline boys off.
"Imitation is the greatest form of flattery"

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:44 am

As stated above we blew our turbo at the ring. Whilst Bart strugled with a dying car to make it to the ferry i had some time to think up plan A & plan B to get it sorted, as we only a week before we were out at Silverstone for Ford Fair.
Here are a couple of pics from the end of our ring trip. A full report and all pics can be found on this link.

http://www.tntracing.fotopic.net/c1344572.html

Bigpower

TNT Racing XR4x4 - Time Attack 2009

Blown turbo

Sorry Stu.

Nurburging day 4