Ross Nicol
GT40s Supporter
It was a nice surprise to get a fine day for the 2nd test of the car.I set off to Calder Raceway on wednesday morning with mixed feelings of concern and hope all will be well. It was surprising to find so few racers testing on such a nice day.Mind you not bad company 2 lamborgini Diablos, Porsche 911 and GT3 and 2 formula fords. I decided to get right into it and went out with a partially wet track. I took it easy and did a best lap of 70 seconds, not bad considering this was the fastest time I'd ever set before in the 240z. In the 2nd and 3rd outing the track dried quite a bit and I was starting to get my eye in and lap times dropped to a consistent 68 secs. I will admit to a spin as I came into turn 1 a bit too hot trying to find a gear.Not a good thing to miss a gear right in font of an audience down the straight either.I did that twice and can confirm the shift light works well.Actually I have the rev limiter set at 5850 revs and the shift light at 6500 revs so I will have to hook up the laptop and place the rev limit at 6500. 5850 revs is annoyingly low.
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Boy like I reported after the wet 1st test at Winton this thing goes like a rocket.The acceleration is unbelievable.Come onto the straight in 2nd gear up to rev limit change to third rev drop to 4900 up to rev limit, change to 4th rev drop to 4950 accelerate back up to 5850 again and change to fifth and wow there is the big drop to 4000 revs and its unnerving now the roar of the motor has dropped so low in pitch, now I'm in the braking area for turn 1 lets try and get round.The sound inside the car is just wonderfull and outside they loved it too.Any body who hasn't got crossover pipes think again.I finished the day with a low 67 sec lap time and that is a respectable time and best of all I know there is plenty more in the car and myself. So the next outing is the race weekend at Sandown on the 19th and 20th of July and the Roaring Forties support
and travelling supporters will be there too. So any GT40 enthusiust who lives in Melbourne come on out and see my car up against a Daytona, Cobra, GT3 Porsche, MGB V8 etc.
Full race report after the meeting.
Regards Ross
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Boy like I reported after the wet 1st test at Winton this thing goes like a rocket.The acceleration is unbelievable.Come onto the straight in 2nd gear up to rev limit change to third rev drop to 4900 up to rev limit, change to 4th rev drop to 4950 accelerate back up to 5850 again and change to fifth and wow there is the big drop to 4000 revs and its unnerving now the roar of the motor has dropped so low in pitch, now I'm in the braking area for turn 1 lets try and get round.The sound inside the car is just wonderfull and outside they loved it too.Any body who hasn't got crossover pipes think again.I finished the day with a low 67 sec lap time and that is a respectable time and best of all I know there is plenty more in the car and myself. So the next outing is the race weekend at Sandown on the 19th and 20th of July and the Roaring Forties support
and travelling supporters will be there too. So any GT40 enthusiust who lives in Melbourne come on out and see my car up against a Daytona, Cobra, GT3 Porsche, MGB V8 etc.
Full race report after the meeting.
Regards Ross
