Photo of the 7

I really like this photo my Dad took of the RX7 at the NSW Hillclimb round earlier this year - think the photo was taken on my fastest lap too.

Incar footage from HeartKids Hillclimb

Start of the month ran in the HeartKids Hillclimb - what a fun event. Was a great day - particularly enjoyed the "parade" laps, especially with my son in the car.

Ended up with a 85.84 - coming second in class to JoJo who got a 85.55.

After watching this incar footage of my run I can see why - off the throttle far too much!

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New PB

Last Sunday was the first SDMA event of the year, a round of the NSW Hillclimb championship. Despite the dire forecasts of rain for a change it didn't - was almost perfect hillclimb weather. PB was sitting at 49.58 after Novembers event - first run of the day was a 49.49 - a good start. Second was a 49.50. Played with tyre pressures following some advice and next run was...a 48.87! Woot! Don't know where I pulled that from. Next couple of runs weren't quite that good, but still low 49s. A great day.

Chainsaw on display

The Chainsaw (rally car my wife navigates in) on its way to being on display in town today for a couple of hours as part of the lead up to the Trussme National Capital Rally.

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In Garema Court

Post racing slump

In post race slump mode at the moment. Ran in the local hillclimb on Sunday, had a blast but seemed to be a bit off the pace. Managed a best of 49.94 (pb is 49.75).

Got beaten in my class by an AE86 and a KE25 both running turbo 4AGEs - and both good drivers.

Good vid of Joe's best run in the AE86 on YouTube.

Next meet (last of the year) is 20th November - hopefully the new front adj struts and adj lower control arms are in by then - might get rid of the pesky understeer through the top hairpin.

6mm JDM Valve stem - shouldn't be hard to find...

Recently bought a pair of Rays Fins - need a bit of a refurb but price was OK and I do like Fins. Only prob was that one was missing it's valve stem. No problem, I'll just buy one of the intawebz I thought. Hmm, OK, this is harder than I thought. The threaded section that bolts into the rim is 6mm in diameter. Standard is 11.3 and 8mm is relatively common for motorbikes - but 6mm is pretty much JDM rims, and 6mm with a long tube (approx 40mm long from rim face) and a slight kink (45 degrees?) is even harder. Just putting this up here so I can point some WTB ads on forums to this and the pic below.

Photos from June Hillclimb

Ran the June SDMA Hillclimb a couple of weeks back - didn't manage a PB but wasn't far off with a time of 49.85 (PB is 49.75). Had a load of fun though and was happy with the results - even though I lost to Joe's turbo AE86.

Some good photos others took of the RX7.



Mat S took the above - a great photo. Just goes to show with skill you can make anything look good.



An action shot taken by Lora I think.

Looking forward to the 2 lap event in August.

No real progress on the Spitfire - some parts purchased, and I've tracked down a spray gun to fish oil the inside of the chassis - so just need to do that and then start on reassembly.