FTO AUSTRALIA

Hi all,

I'm a moderator of another forum (http://www.twincam.org) & we're organising a series of regular track days for next year at Darlington Park, located between Brisbane & the Gold Coast. We haven't organised any dates yet but want to create some interest in the idea.

I raced in the QR Saturday Sprints in 2003, unfortunatly it became a victim of it's own popularity with 150+ cars turning up to race in an afternoon & that's never going to work as people were getting turned away. Our aim is to try a more challenging track (Darlington Park) with less people (max 30 per session).

The cost for our first event was $165ea for about 100km of racing, instructors on hand & lunch included, but we're working on ways to bring that down. That may seem steep but compared to QR's $130 ($75 + $55 Clubman licence) for 30km, it's great value.

For more information on the track see - http://www.totaldriver.com.au/car-clubs.htm

To read the tread on our first event see - http://www.twincam.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8794

Cheers,

Candellan.

This thing is finally going to happen in February peoples.

We have a choice of 3 days in Feb - 12, 19 or 26 Feb 2005

$165 for a 1/2 day of racing on a very rewarding track.

If you are interested, sign up with twincam.org (free) & pick your preferred day -HERE.

This sounds great.
After doing the sprints at QR, they are getting way too busy, so you spend the day waiting to do 3 sessions.
It would be great to see a few FTO`s there.
I checked out the twin cams site and by the sounds of the cars, I don`t think us FTO`s would be embaresed.
Lets get a few going.
Jeff

I think the FTO's & twincams would be a very even match on the track. Most twinkys are FWD, have around 80-120kw & are fairly light (900-1000kgs).

If you are interested, please join Twincam.org so I can keep track of who's coming.

This is on tomorrow if anyone who has a car running is interested

The next event at Darlington Park has been booked for 11 June 2005. Same deal as last time. $165 for the arvo session (11:00am - 5:00pm). Sign up with Twincam.org to register interest & I'll organise it from there.

Jeff is coming along this month. Who else is interested? We'll have a quite a variety of makes including Toyota (Corollas), Nissan (Silvias), Mitsubishi (VR4), Peugeot (205s, 305s), Mazda (RX7, MX5), Honda (Type-R, Euro) & VW (Golf) so there's pleanty of competition for the Mivtec power.

Sorry Candellan,
But I probably wont make it again.
Check out the thread Danny & Jeff`s 6A13 conversion in the Performance forum for all the details.
The short of it is, I went to pick up my car on Sat, and when they started it there was the horrible noise of a piston hitting a valve.
If I can get another 6A13 replacement, I might make it.
But if it is a rebuid with forged internals, it means another 2 months in the workshop.
Jeff

DATE CHANGE!!

We got bumped to 11 June because the track has been double booked. The track owner died 2 weeks ago & their timetable has been upset by this.

Total Driver have apologized sincerely for the mistake & I hope you can all come along on the revised day.

C`mon Qlders,
I`ll be there on the 11/6 flying the flag for FTO drivers.
There must be a few other people interested. I`m sure its not booked up, so you can turn up on the day.
Sounds like a heap of fun and you can check out my monster beast.
Jeff

I hear your FTO made quite a deal of power on the Crossley dyno. Well done mate. I'm looking forward to seeing it tomorrow.

Plenty of places left folks.

that FTO is AWESOME!!!! too bad it didn't run that many laps, what happened to it?

i drive the big black corolla sportivo by the way, we had a chat before lunch during the scrutineering.

i sorta got 2 clips here.
enjoy the noise

outside footage - 5mb

inside footage - 50mb

done think i impressed anyone today! but boy, i had some fun!!

Over heating.
With the bonnet closed it only managed 3 laps before things started getting too hot.
I thought discression the better part of valour, and took it home before I cooked it.
Guess I`ll have to get bonnet scoops .
Jeff

Thanks for that footage, it was really good. gets me even more keen to go to a track

Jeff wrote:Over heating.
With the bonnet closed it only managed 3 laps before things started getting too hot.
I thought discression the better part of valour, and took it home before I cooked it.
Guess I`ll have to get bonnet scoops .
Jeff

ah ok. yeah we were sorta having that discussion about the paint on the bonnet too at one stage. lovely car, mate.

i was so close to getting an FTO!

It was great to see the FTO out there. Thanks for coming Jeff, even if it was for just a few laps. Get some cool air in there & come for another one when you're ready. I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself a lot more when you don't have to worry about the thing overheating.